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How gaining access to land opened up opportunities for women following land reform in Zimbabwe

Ian Scoones
How gaining access to land opened up opportunities for women following land reform in Zimbabwe
Land reform enabled some women to claim land. Gaining access to land, our informants explained, offered independence and autonomy. In our discussions across the sites, the...
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Social reproduction and land reform: introducing a blog series

While much analysis of land reform has focused narrowly on production (crops, livestock, and markets), this...
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Zimbabweans abroad: Uber drivers in Cape Town

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Charms, potions and spirits involved in the management of livestock in Zimbabwe

During my long-term fieldwork in Matobo district there was constant discussion of supernatural beliefs concerning livestock....
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ICARRD+20 kicks off this week: can the challenge of redistributive land reform be addressed?

Given the on-going concentration of wealth – including land – addressing inequality is a core challenge...
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Livestock, climate change and land reform in southern Africa

The report, edited by Tapiwa Chatikobo and Ben Cousins, explores how small-scale livestock producers manage the...
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Rethinking with uncertainty: two new articles

Two open access articles have just come out that take the theme of ‘uncertainty’ and explore...
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Changes in livelihood success: comparing communal areas and smallholder land reform areas in Zimbabwe

As discussed in the previous blog, we carried out repeat ‘success rankings’ in three of our...
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Livelihood opportunities in Zimbabwe’s communal areas: too poor to succeed?

We are interested in comparing the fortunes of the two types of land use....
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The future of ‘development’ – and IDS@60

This year is the 60th anniversary of the Institute of Development Studies based at the University of...
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Welcome to the international year of rangelands and pastoralists, 2026

Zimbabwe includes many pastoral and agropastoral systems, sharing many of the characteristics of seen in the...
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Zimbabweland’s festive top 20: a review of the year

A highlight of the year was an exchange visit with 16 farmers from our A1 sites...
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To complement this ongoing blog and the various academic outputs we produce from the research, we...
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New forms of commercial agriculture on A2 land reform farms in Mvurwi, Zimbabwe

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