Rural livelihoods in the pandemic: notes from Zimbabwe

Half a million people have now been vaccinated in Zimbabwe, but this is still only 3.5% of the population....

Conservation agriculture: latest experiences from Zimbabwe

In the last blog, I introduced the Pfumvudza programme in Zimbabwe, a version of conservation agriculture that has...

Can the Pfumvudza conservation agriculture programme deliver food security in Zimbabwe?

It looks like it’s going to be a good harvest this year in Zimbabwe....

FAO recognises farmer-led irrigation as a major contributor to agricultural development

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Frontier politics in Zimbabwe: the Chilonga case

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Vaccine politics in Zimbabwe

If you didn’t know already, vaccines are political....

Medium-scale commercial farming in Zimbabwe: how has it fared since land reform?

There are those who are beneficiaries of patronage for sure, including via Command Agriculture...

The rich people’s virus? Latest reflections from Zimbabwe

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Can South Africa help find a way out of Zimbabwe’s on-going crises?

I don’t know how many times this blog has commented on the worsening economic and political...

‘The land is the economy, the economy is the land’, but does this include young people?

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Lockdown politics: reflections from Zimbabwe

Another very severe lockdown was imposed on 2 January, with strict movement restrictions...

Can Zimbabwe survive a second wave of COVID-19?

On January 2nd, Vice-President and Minister of Health, Constantino Chiwenga, announced another strict lockdown on the...

Zimbabweland’s 2020 wrap-up

2020 has been quite a year in Zimbabwe and across the world. The blog has had...

Unequal land, unequal societies

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