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South African confusions over land reform

Ian Scoones
As followers of this blog will know, I have recently been in South Africa where debates about land reform provoke strong reactions, particular when Zimbabwe is...
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Why land redistribution must be central to human flourishing in an era of extreme inequality

Land redistribution is not the flavour of the month. Many see it as impossible, an idealistic...
6.10.2025 19:22

The politics of land: introducing an important new collection

Land is central to contemporary debates about politics as anyone in Zimbabwe knows well. Land sustains...
30.9.2025 1:49

Towards ICARRD+20: debating land, life and society in Cape Town

Next week several hundred participants from across the world will gather in Cape Town for a...
22.9.2025 19:18

Debating uncertainty: from a politics of control to a politics of care

By avoiding the political, institutional, professional drives to close down to risk, spaces can be opened...
16.9.2025 3:10

Why working with – not against – the informal economy is essential: some lessons from Zimbabwe

All informal players are heavily taxed...
8.9.2025 21:20

How are cattle herders in Zimbabwe managing January disease?

Since 2016, January disease (theileriosis) has decimated more than half a million cattle in many rural...
2.9.2025 20:40

Where is home? Land, home and belonging in land reform areas in Zimbabwe

For me, home is where my assets are. A lot of my assets are in Bulawayo;...
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Managing livestock in a variable, fragmented landscape: challenges of accumulation in Matobo, Zimbabwe

Most of the huge ranches that took up much of Matobo district outside the crowded communal...
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Accumulating through tobacco: the case of Mvurwi in Zimbabwe

Mvurwi area is in Mazowe district, some 100km north of Harare....
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Former farm workers in Mvurwi: structural constraints on success

There are just too many barriers....
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Understanding success in the villagised land reform farms in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe

Villagised farms, with allocated homestead areas and fields and common grazing, are the most common type...
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Negotiating demographic change: sustaining land reform success in Masvingo, Zimbabwe

The challenges of managing generational change within farm households was highlighted by the A1 self-contained land...
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What is ‘success’ in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas?

What constitutes ‘success’ if you have land in the A1 land reform areas in Zimbabwe? This...

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