Land Reform, Belonging and Social Relations:

Marewo, Malvern Kudakwashe

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“…The FTLRP sought to overcome these by engaging in massive state-led expropriation of agricultural land without compensation, 1 making it become one of the biggest agrarian transformations in a single country in modern African history. Polemical and divisive debates on the programme have persisted to date (Bhatasara and Helliker, 2018; Marewo, 2019; Moyo and Chambati, 2013).…”

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A Transformative Social Policy Perspective on Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe

Chipenda

2024

Africa Spectrum

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Land and agrarian reform in former settler colonies is an overlooked aspect of social policy, especially in the African context. This is, however, changing with the recognition that it is a policy instrument with functional equivalents to other conventional forms of social policy. Since the cataclysmic COVID-19 pandemic exposed the shortcomings of conventional social policy approaches, a renewed interest in land and agrarian reforms has emerged. Increasingly there has been a call for the decolonisation of social policy in Africa and for transformative social policy (TSP) initiatives, which privilege local needs and policy perspectives. With scholarship crystallising around possibilities of post-pandemic social policy transformation, this article explores lessons that can be learned from Zimbabwe's agrarian welfare regime in dealing with the challenges of rural poverty and inequality. Using empirical evidence gathered from the Goromonzi and Zvimba districts in Zimbabwe and the analytical lenses of the TSP framework, this article argues that land reform beneficiaries in an agrarian welfare regime have better opportunities for the enhancement of their welfare and wellbeing, as well as their productive and reproductive capacities. Arguably, the pandemic highlighted that access to land enhances the resilience of land reform beneficiaries and surrounding communities. Land access can be utilised to overcome rural poverty and inequality, which makes it critical for inclusive and sustainable growth.

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A Transformative Social Policy Perspective on Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe

Chipenda

2024

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“…Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform programme (FTLRP) of 2000 is one of the most radical state-led land reforms in sub-Saharan Africa to date (Marewo, 2019). FTLRP led to the transfer of land from mostly white-owned farmers to black small-scale (A1) and medium-scale farmers (A2) under two models reconfiguring patterns of land ownership (Moyo, 2011;Scoones et al, 2010).…”

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“…The FTLRP in Zimbabwe was led by war veterans, with the social base comprising largely of people from communal areas (Moyo and Yeros, 2005). As a result, a large number of beneficiaries of the A1villagised model originated from communal areas that maintain linkages with their places of origin (Marewo, 2019;Murisa, 2009;Scoones et al, 2010).…”

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Belonging and Agrarian Labour Exchanges in Zimbabwe: Navigating Between Communal Areas and Fast Track Villagised Settlements

Marewo

2023

Africa Spectrum

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This article examines the nature of labour exchange between A1 farmers with people in communal areas of origin based on kinship and friendship relations. While agrarian labour in Zimbabwe has attracted considerable interest in land reform debates, limited attention has been paid to agrarian labour exchange and livelihoods based on belonging to communal areas of origin under the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP). Using a qualitative case study from Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, I argue that belonging plays an important role in labour exchange and enabling livelihoods. This article illustrates that labour exchange in farm households still matter despite changes in land distribution and the economy. The article concludes that belonging-based labour exchange enhances agricultural production and livelihoods in a new land ownership and economic circumstances.

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COVID-19, lockdown and peasants in Zimbabwe

Tom

2021

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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The exploration of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe and the consequent responses have blind spots in relation to peasant communities. Despite the peasantry featuring in Zimbabwe's agrarian reform literature, such literature is lacking when it comes to the interrogation of how this diverse and sometimes less recognised group responded to the novel virus. The article explores peasant life in a time of COVID-19 and lockdown in Zimbabwe, paying special attention to the impact of the pandemic on their 'total way of life', their agency in responding to the pandemic in an agrarian context, and implications for the present and future.

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Land Reform, Belonging and Social Relations:

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A Transformative Social Policy Perspective on Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe

A Transformative Social Policy Perspective on Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe

Belonging and Agrarian Labour Exchanges in Zimbabwe: Navigating Between Communal Areas and Fast Track Villagised Settlements

COVID-19, lockdown and peasants in Zimbabwe

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