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‘Living under contract’: reflections after 25 years

Ian Scoones
Contract farming in different forms has become increasingly common in farming systems across the world, not least in Zimbabwe, but does it benefit smallholder farmers or...
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20.12.2021 14:53

As Omicron sweeps through Zimbabwe, how are people responding?

It was just a few weeks ago that our last report noted the arrival of a new variant...
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COP26: Some reflections from Glasgow

The COP26 marathon is finally over and on Saturday the Glasgow Climate Pact was agreed. ...
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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

The first phase of the delayed Biodiversity Convention of the Parties (COP15) ended last week. ...
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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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Land reform in England?

Access to land is not only a concern in places like Zimbabwe. In England, less than...
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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

How is China helping to transform African economies? There are many different narratives cast around in...
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COVID-19 and economic transformation in rural Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 situation looks uncertain, with localised outbreaks and a rise in infections south of the...

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