Land reform &amp; changing social relations for farm workers in Zimbabwe

Moyo, Sam; Rutherford, Blair; Amanor‐Wilks, Dede

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“…The extent of effect of land reform is very broad. The broadened concepts involve the rural welfare system and development (Moyo et al 2000). In Zhejiang, given the lack of funding, thoroughly and rapidly addressing urgent unemployment and medical issues of landless peasants is difficult (Yang and Huang 2004).…”

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Subjective Well-Being of Chinese Landless Peasants in Relatively Developed Regions: Measurement Using PANAS and SWLS

Liang

Zhu

2014

Soc Indic Res

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The government of China expropriated the lands of peasants for urban development. Though some landless peasants have become the urban residents in the household registration system, they still recognize themselves as traditional peasants in the psychological cultural aspects. And they do not enjoy the same social security as urban citizens. This study explores the subjective well-being (SWB) of Chinese landless peasants using two scales, namely, the positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS) and the satisfaction with life scale (SWLS). A total of 1,236 landless peasants from three relatively developed cities (Nanjing, Yangzhou, and Hangzhou) were included in the sample. Results indicated that 60 % of the respondents got NA scores above the midpoint of scale (30) and 64.64 % of the respondents reported PA scores below the midpoint of scale (30). And 64.56 % of the respondents got SWLS scores below the midpoint of scale (20). SWLS is positively related to PA and negatively related to NA. Therefore, as landless peasants possess more or stronger negative emotions, their SWB decreases. Unfair or unreasonable land compensation and resettlement policy are supposed to lead to negative emotions, while incomplete social security system leads to low life satisfaction among landless peasants.

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Subjective Well-Being of Chinese Landless Peasants in Relatively Developed Regions: Measurement Using PANAS and SWLS

Liang

Zhu

2014

Soc Indic Res

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“…How former farmworkers have been incorporated into the new agrarian system has been the subject of much debate in Zimbabwe (Hartnack, 2009;Magaramombe, 2010;Moyo, Rutherford, & Amanor-Wilks, 2000). The simple narrative that workers were displaced (often in situ) and that they remain unemployed is not supported by the evidence (Chambati, 2011).…”

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Tobacco, contract farming, and agrarian change in Zimbabwe

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Mavedzenge²,

Murimbarimba³

et al. 2017

Journal of Agrarian Change

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The growth of smallholder tobacco production since 2000 has been one of the big stories of Zimbabwe's post-land reform experience.Yet the implications for agrarian change, and the consequences for new relations between farmers, the state, and agribusiness capital have rarely been discussed. The paper reports on work carried out in the Mvurwi area of Mazowe district in Zimbabwe with a sample of 220 A1 (smallholder) farmers and 100 former farmworkers resident in compounds on the same farms. By going beyond a focus on operational and business dimensions of contract farming, the paper concludes with reflections on the implications for understanding agrarian relations and social differentiation in those areas of Zimbabwe where tobacco growing is now significant, with lessons more broadly on the political economy of contract farming, and the integration of agribusiness capital following land reform. KEYWORDScontract farming, land reform, tobacco, Zimbabwe | INTRODUCTIONTobacco production has become central to patterns of accumulation by small-scale farmers in some new land reform areas in Zimbabwe, particularly in the wetter Highveld areas. This has occurred through engagement with agribusiness, including through contracting arrangements, as well as direct sales to companies and auction floors.The tobacco industry has been transformed following the radical land reform in 2000, with production now taking place among a far wider group of often small-scale farmers, resulting in new relations between farmers, labour, agribusiness capital, and the state. This paper examines the implications of this transformation, and asks who wins and who loses from this major reconfiguration of the agrarian landscape. Understanding these patterns of agrarian change, and the accommodations as well as conflicts with diverse forms of capital in the context of tobacco production, sheds important light on the post-land reform agrarian setting, offering hints of longer-term dynamics of social differentiation and class formation, as well as linkages between farming, capital, and the state in Zimbabwe.More generally, the case offers an insight into agrarian transition following land redistribution, highlighting different paths of accumulation and differentiation. In his review of particular national and historical paths of agrarian transition, Byres (1991Byres ( , 1996 argues that agrarian transitions to capitalism from below are possible if the state and an organized peasantry can challenge the power of capitalist, landlord classes. In South Africa, Neocosmos (1993) argued that a democratic state could facilitate "accumulation from below", and others have made the case that this is occurring on the margins, although without significant support (Cousins, 2013). Mamdani (1987) explores paths of accumulation in Uganda, contrasting accumulation from below with accumulation from above. He shows that there is no clear separation between different paths of accumulation; indeed, the role of the state, including bureaucrats and political patrona...

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“…Historically, white farmers depended on cheap labour from Native Reserves and from colonies to the north, especially Nyasaland (Moyo, Rutherford, & Amanor-Wilks, 2000).…”

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A gendered analysis of land reforms in Zimbabwe

Pasura

2010

Women's Studies International Forum

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Between 1980, when Zimbabwe attained political independence, and 2003 the government has implemented two phases of land redistribution programmes, designed to transfer land from large-scale commercial white farmers to black farmers. However, the state has paid scant attention to rural women's access to land. Studies documenting women's exclusion from Phase I land reform have tended to rely on the operation of customary law to explain why women have missed out. I question these liberal accounts and argue that a comprehensive understanding of the way rural women access land, or fail to access land, can only be gained by examining gender and power relations that operate in the villages. Phase II land reform has seen a complex intersection of criteria based on gender and political affiliation used to deny potential beneficiaries access to land, as patronage politics became the dominant means of achieving access to land.

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Land reform & changing social relations for farm workers in Zimbabwe

Cited by 69 publications

References 24 publications

Subjective Well-Being of Chinese Landless Peasants in Relatively Developed Regions: Measurement Using PANAS and SWLS

Subjective Well-Being of Chinese Landless Peasants in Relatively Developed Regions: Measurement Using PANAS and SWLS

Tobacco, contract farming, and agrarian change in Zimbabwe

A gendered analysis of land reforms in Zimbabwe

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