12.4.2022 8:18

The trouble with elephants: why limits on culling are bad for conservation

Ian Scoones
Elephants are some of the most majestic animals in African savannahs, but they can also be the most destructive....
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23.2.2022 7:21

Health workers on the front-line: experiences from rural Zimbabwe

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 (the first case recorded in Zimbabwe was...
24.1.2022 12:33

‘Living under contract’: reflections after 25 years

Contract farming in different forms has become increasingly common in farming systems across the world, not...
23.8.2021 13:39

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...
9.8.2021 16:05

COVID-19 spreads to rural Zimbabwe

The third COVID-19 wave has firmly arrived in Zimbabwe’s rural areas....
26.7.2021 11:46

Land reform in England?

Access to land is not only a concern in places like Zimbabwe. In England, less than...
12.7.2021 15:58

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....
14.6.2021 10:55

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...
31.5.2021 10:24

How land reform transformed small towns in Zimbabwe

Our recent paper – small towns and land reform in Zimbabwe – out in the European Journal of Development...
24.5.2021 14:04

Small towns and agricultural development in Africa

The most recent Africa Agriculture Status Report from AGRA, ‘Feeding Africa’s Cities: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policies...
10.5.2021 9:56

Rural livelihoods in the pandemic: notes from Zimbabwe

Half a million people have now been vaccinated in Zimbabwe, but this is still only 3.5%...
4.5.2021 15:03

Beyond the silver bullet solution: towards a ‘systems agronomy’ perspective

The previous two blogs (here and here) have discussed the Pfumvudza conservation agriculture programme that has become a...
26.4.2021 7:17

Conservation agriculture: latest experiences from Zimbabwe

In the last blog, I introduced the Pfumvudza programme in Zimbabwe, a version of conservation agriculture that has...
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Can the Pfumvudza conservation agriculture programme deliver food security in Zimbabwe?

It looks like it’s going to be a good harvest this year in Zimbabwe....

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