15.12.2025 19:56

Two new booklets: young people and small towns in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas

Ian Scoones
To complement this ongoing blog and the various academic outputs we produce from the research, we always try and produce some colour booklets on themes emerging...
Read more...
2.12.2025 20:44

New forms of commercial agriculture on A2 land reform farms in Mvurwi, Zimbabwe

The high potential areas of Mvurwi in Mazowe district should be the focus for significant commercial...
24.11.2025 19:31

Medium-scale resettlement farms in Masvingo and Gutu districts in Zimbabwe: what has happened since 2000?

Our sample of 50 A2 farms across Gutu and Masvingo districts range from the ‘highveld’ grazing...
17.11.2025 16:23

New types of ranching on medium-scale land reform farms in Matobo, Zimbabwe

The A2 farms in Matobo are in some of the most remote parts of the district....
4.11.2025 18:59

Is the end of sanctions on Zimbabwe near?

This could see the end of one of the last formal sanctions on Zimbabwe, offering hope...
27.10.2025 19:10

South African confusions over land reform

As followers of this blog will know, I have recently been in South Africa where debates...
20.10.2025 17:52

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;...
27.8.2025 2:50

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...

Popular:

Sport

Featured:
2026 Minerva Zimbabwe International Chess Open a Success

Athletics:
Stanbic Bank Half Marathon unites Zimbabweans through fitness

Business:
Diomande’s Seven-Year Madrid Deal Tests the Logic Behind a €140m Package

Featured:
From 2010 to 2026: how Bafana Bafana’s World Cup return has been a long time coming