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COP26: Some reflections from Glasgow

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Zimbabwe’s bumper harvest: what explains the success?

As farmers turn to the next season with the beginning of the rains, the country is...
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Biodiversity and climate change: why tree planting schemes may not be the answer

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The politics of control in Zimbabwe’s COVID times

The COVID-19 situation in Zimbabwe has improved since our last report, with infection rates and deaths declining...
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Challenging simplistic land degradation and restoration narratives in Zimbabwe

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Dynamic drivers of land use change in Zimbabwe

What are the drivers of land use change and how do they interact over time?...
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Worker-peasants and peasant-workers: new labour regimes in rural Zimbabwe

Much academic debate about rural farm labour has focused on the idea of linear transitions in...
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COVID-19 spreads to rural Zimbabwe

The third COVID-19 wave has firmly arrived in Zimbabwe’s rural areas....
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Zimbabwe faces a COVID-19 surge: what is happening in the rural areas?

The increase in COVID-19 cases in Zimbabwe has been significant in the weeks since our last blog....
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How is ‘China’ helping to transform ‘Africa’? The need for a more sophisticated debate

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Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 situation looks uncertain, with localised outbreaks and a rise in infections south of the...
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How land reform transformed small towns in Zimbabwe

Our recent paper – small towns and land reform in Zimbabwe – out in the European Journal of Development...
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Small towns and agricultural development in Africa

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