Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe

Weiner, Dan; Moyo, Sam; Munslow, Barry; O’Keefe, Phil

doi:10.1017/s0022278x00000173

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“…37 Another estimate was that in Mashonaland, less than one-third of arable land was actually being used. 38 Furthermore, these large farmers were not producing very much. The Rhodesian National…”

Section: Criteria 3: Production and Productivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Who will make the ‘best’ use of Africa’s land? Lessons from Zimbabwe

Manjengwa

Hanlon

Smart

2014

Third World Quarterly

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Conflict over African land -between small holders and large industrial farmers and between domestic farmers and global agribusinesses -raises key questions about who will make the best use of African land and which farmers do most to decrease poverty and produce more food, industrial inputs, and exports. Zimbabwe has already gone through two major changes in land occupation, and thus provides an important test of what is the 'best' use of the land. Three measures of 'best' use have been cited in Zimbabwe: reward for military victory, poverty reduction, and agricultural production. Initial evidence indicates that commercial small holder production is a better use of the land than larger, more mechanised farming.

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Section: Criteria 3: Production and Productivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Who will make the ‘best’ use of Africa’s land? Lessons from Zimbabwe

Manjengwa

Hanlon

Smart

2014

Third World Quarterly

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“…The extensive powers inherited under the Emergency Powers Act, the Law and Order (Maintenance) Act, and other legislation, as well as the massive police and intelligence apparatus built by Rhodesian governments were maintained and even expanded (Weitzer 1984;Ncube 1991). The ZANU(PF) government justified the maintenance of the state's repressive capabilities in terms of the threat posed by South Africa and disgruntled whites.…”

Section: Zanu (Pf) Ideology: Constraints Of a Negotiated Independencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Numerous calculations were made, from those of the 1982 Transitional Plan to the 1991 World Bank report which concluded that at least three million hectares of commercial land in the high potential regions were underused. As the report commented, 'This 3 million hectares is equal to the total amount of land resettled during the 1980s (1991:45; also see Cliffe 1986;Weiner et al 1985;Weiner 1988;Moyo et al 1989). …”

Section: The Resettlement Programme: Plans and Politicsmentioning

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State, peasantry and resettlement in Zimbabwe

Alexander

1994

Review of African Political Economy

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The end of minority rule in Zimbabwe seemed to herald dramatic changes in agrarian and local government policies, as well as in official attitudes towards the rural areas more generally: the newly elected ZANU(PF) government promised a dramatic decentralisation and democratisation of government structures and a large scale redistribution of land. This article assesses the extent to which the promises of independence were met. It stresses the importance of the political context of debates over agrarian change — the constraints of a negotiated independence, the political clout of commercial farmers, the ruling party's own political agenda and economic interests — and focuses on change in the institutional forums in which debate took place, particularly the extent to which the inherited ideologies and practices of the state bureaucracies charged with formulating and implementing agrarian policies were transformed by decentralisation and majority rule.

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“…It also provides 45% of the country's exports, providing employment for 70% of Zimbabwe's population (Weiner, Moyo, Munslow, & O'Keefe, 1985;Maiyaki, 2010). The agricultural land is divided into five main agro-ecological regions which relate to climatic conditions, soils, and to the appropriate farming systems adopted.…”

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Agritourism: A Possible Alternative to Zimbabwe’s Tourism Product?

Chikuta¹,

Makacha²

2016

JTHM

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This study sought to establish whether agritourism can be an alternative to Zimbabwe's tourism product or not.Of essence were the potential and possible challenges to be faced in developing the concept. An exploratory research design was adopted since agritourism is a relatively new concept in Zimbabwe. Data were collected through a detailed interviewer-administered questionnaire. Farmers and farm managers were the target respondents.In addition, a thirty-minute interview was conducted with an executive at the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority's (ZTA) Department of Market Research and New Product Development. Observations were also made in order to fortify the data collected through questionnaires. The results show that agritourism can be a viable option since some resources already exist in a number of farms. Challenges were noted and these need to be acted upon by the relevant authorities, that is, the Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality Industry and the ZTA.

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Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe

Cited by 54 publications

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Who will make the ‘best’ use of Africa’s land? Lessons from Zimbabwe

Who will make the ‘best’ use of Africa’s land? Lessons from Zimbabwe

State, peasantry and resettlement in Zimbabwe

Agritourism: A Possible Alternative to Zimbabwe’s Tourism Product?

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