Title: Zimbabwe takes back its land /
Authors: Hanlon, Joseph.; Manjengwa, J. M.; Smart, Teresa.
Publisher: Kumarian Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Land reform beneficiaries Zimbabwe.; Farm ownership Zimbabwe.; Land use Zimbabwe.; Agriculture and state Zimbabwe.
Abstract: Countering the dominant media narratives of economic stagnation, Zimbabwe Takes Back Its Land offers a more positive and nuanced assessment of the results of the contentious land reforms that were introduced in Zimbabwe in 2000. The authors do not minimize the depredations of the Mugabe regime. Rather, they show how "ordinary" Zimbabweans have taken charge of their destinies in creative and unacknowledged ways on the farms that they obtained through the land-reform programs. They offer a compelling story of how, through collective action, the poor can improve their lives even in the midst of hostile circumstances. -- Publisher description.
Contents: Veterans and land -- Starting points -- Land apartheid -- Independence & the 1st land reform -- Adjustment and occupation -- The 2nd land reform -- Tomatoes, maize & tobacco -- New smallholders -- New world of commercial farming -- Women take their land -- Cutting down trees -- Workers, water and widows -- Conclusion: occupied and productive.