Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform

Prosper B. Matondi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2012
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78032-149-3 (ISBN)

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The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread displacement and subsequent replacement of various people, agricultural-related production systems, facets and processes. The reality, however, is altogether more complex.

Providing new and much-needed empirical research, this in-depth book examines how processes such as land acquisition, allocation, transitional production outcomes, social life, gender and tenure, have influenced and been influenced by the forces driving the programme. It also explores the ways in which the land reform programme has created a new agrarian structure based on small- to medium-scale farmers. In attempting to resolve the problematic issues the reforms have raised, the author argues that it is this new agrarian formation which provides the greatest scope for improving Zimbabwe’s agriculture and development.

Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the subject, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy.

Prosper B. Matondi is the executive director of the Ruzivo Trust, a not-for-profit organization based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He has more than 18 years of experience researching on land, natural resources management, environmental policy and planning in Zimbabwe, within the southern African region and internationally. He is the co-editor, along with Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene, of Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa (Zed 2011).

Preface
1. Understanding Fast Track Land Reforms in Zimbabwe
2. Land occupations as the trigger for compulsory land acquisition
3. Interrogating land allocation
4. Juggling land ownership rights in uncertain times
5. Complexities in understanding agricultural production outcomes
6. Access to services and farm-level investments on Fast Track Farms
7. A revolution without change in women's land rights
8. Social organisation and reconstruction of communities on Fast Track Farms
Conclusion: from a 'crisis' to a 'prosperous' future?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.11.2012
Reihe/Serie	Africa Now
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-78032-149-X / 178032149X
ISBN-13	978-1-78032-149-3 / 9781780321493
Zustand	Neuware