Why white Zimbabwean farmer, Ben Freeth, returned to his farm eight years after it was destroyed by pro-Mugabe forces

Stripped of their land and forced to watch their house torched, Kent-born Ben Freeth and his family have seen first-hand the violence and unpredictability of...

More than a buzzword? Resilience to climate change in Zimbabwe

Climate change-induced disasters will keep on coming, as sure as the sun rises. But rather than...

Zimbabwe ships live elephants to wildlife parks in China

More than 30 wild elephants were being readied on Friday evening for an airlift from Zimbabwe...

Bloody boundary clashes

More than 80 Chisumbanje villagers from Mutumburi village on Wednesday 21 December 2016 clashed with Green...

Why Zimbabwe land reform has failed to remedy rural hunger

Almost 40 years after independence, land reform remains at the heart of Zimbabwe’s political and economic...

Zimbabweland’s festive 20 – 2016 edition

I’ve recently returned from Zimbabwe, visiting our research sites in Mvurwi, Matobo and Masvingo. The rains...

Integrated water resource management: panacea or problem?

Integrated water resource management (IWRM) became the buzzword for water resources policy gurus in the 1990s....

Is Land Nationalisation in Zimbabwe a form of slavery?

Harare - Last week I went back to the grave of my father-in-law, Mike Campbell, on...

Farmer-led irrigation in Africa: driving a new Green Revolution?

A new open access review paper is just out in the Journal of Peasant Studies on...

Hwange elephant captures – A discussion with Sharon Pincott

The Zimbabwean talks to elephant specialist, Sharon Pincott - who spent 13 years monitoring and recording...

From ‘ordered estates’ to ‘crooked times’: farmworker welfare in Zimbabwe

A new book is just out – Ordered Estates: Welfare, Power and Maternalism on Zimbabwe’s (Once...

The changing fortunes of former farm workers in Zimbabwe

Last week, I offered an overview of our findings on changing livelihoods among former farm workers...

What are former farm workers doing 16 years after land reform?

There has been much debate about the fate of ‘farm workers’ following land reform, with discussion...

Hyenas destined for China – Update

The 8 hyenas that were captured on Hwange as per our last report were transported to...

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