Reconfigured agrarian relations in Zimbabwe
By: Toendepi Shonhe
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Mankon, Cameroon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9789956764211
Subjects: Land reform; Agriculture and politics; Agriculture; Economic aspects; Zimbabwe
Description: Radical land reform programmes generate changes in agrarian structures and capital accumulation trajectories in the countryside. This book examines how capital accumulation is being reshaped by changing financing and marketing of agricultural commodities and presents an emerging Quadi-PMMR-model agrarian structure composed of the poor, middle, middle-to-rich peasants and some rich capitalists with a growing middle scale farmer base constituting two thirds of the rural population in Zimbabwe. This evidence based assessment, 15 years after the FTLRP, sheds light on policy outcomes and impacts on communities, revealing the changing production, marketing, capital accumulation and class formation tendencies across Zimbabwe's settlement models and agro-ecological settings. The book fuses the reliance on agrarian political economy lenses and factor component analysis to reveal the dynamics of agrarian change and to explore the dialectic between production and circulation and between the centre and periphery in exceptional fashion that expands our understanding of Zimbabwe's agrarian transition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-332).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Conceptual and theoretical framework : uneven development and primitive accumulation; title: Class formation and peasant struggles; title: Research methodology; title: Agricultural development (1890-1980); title: Changing agrarian relations, 1980-1999; title: Changing agrarian dynamics, 2000-2015; title: Hwedza's socio-economic history and tobacco production; title: Sectoral commodity production in Hwedza, 2000-15; title: Capital and commodity markets; title: Hwedza's agrarian capital accumulation model; title: Conclusion.