29.6.2020 7:06

20 years after Zimbabwe’s land reform: what does the future hold?

Ian Scoones
This concluding blog is, therefore, a very preliminary reflection on the changes that we have observed over 20 years...
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22.6.2020 7:02

Zimbabwe’s land reform areas twenty years on (6)

Reflections on processes of agrarian change across sites...
15.6.2020 7:11

COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe: ‘we are good at surviving, but things are really tough’

 On the 13th June I had a follow up conversation on how people are coping with the...
8.6.2020 10:10

Zimbabwe’s land reform areas twenty years on (5)

What happened on the A2 medium-scale farms?...
1.6.2020 7:19

Zimbabwe’s land reform areas twenty years on (4)

What happened in the villagised, ‘informal’ A1 areas?...
25.5.2020 9:11

Zimbabwe’s land reform areas twenty years on (3)

What happened in the villagised A1 schemes?...
3.2.2020 6:14

Sugar scandals in Zimbabwe’s lowveld

While visiting our research sites in Mkwasine and Hippo Valley in Zimbabwe’s lowveld recently, there was only one...
20.1.2020 7:05

UK-Africa trade and investment: is it good for development?

Just ten days before Brexit is declared, the UK is hosting a major investment summit, attended by...
2.12.2019 8:16

Uncertainty and the Zimbabwean economy

Over the last month, there have been a number of reviews of progress – or the...
25.11.2019 6:43

What does pro-poor rural development mean for Zimbabwe?

During last year’s election campaign, Tendai Biti from the opposition MDC, characterised the rural areas as ‘reservoirs of...
18.11.2019 5:43

Water, sanitation and energy supply in Masvingo’s communal areas

When we started our research on the new resettlement areas in the early 2000s, one of...
11.11.2019 6:22

Institutions, social relations and rural development in Zimbabwe

Social and political relations are central to land and agricultural production. Unlike in the resettlement areas, where...
4.11.2019 10:03

Off-farm work and diversified livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s communal areas

  However, the patterns of labour migration have changed significantly over the past decades. Gone are the days...
21.10.2019 18:28

Agriculture in Masvingo’s communal areas: limited prospects

We investigated agricultural production across our communal area sites throughout Masvingo province during the 2016 and...

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