Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths and Realities

By M. Roodt. 2012

167 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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How researchers see this paper

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In Anthropology

1. B. Cousins
2. S. Moyo
3. R. Hall
4. K. Amanor

In Sociology and Political Science

1. B. Cousins
2. I. Scoones
3. S. Moyo
4. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
5. B. White
6. Wendy Wolford
7. R. Gaidzanwa
8. J. Alexander

In Soil Science

1. I. Scoones
2. B. Cousins
3. Wendy Wolford
4. R. Hall
5. B. White
6. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
7. S. Moyo
8. R. Gaidzanwa

Citations in the corpus

• Land grabbing in Southern Africa: the many faces of the investor rush (2011, background): “Scoones et al. (2010) have shown how, at least in Masvingo province, empirical evidence on land uses by the ‘grabbers’ challenges the pervasive and media-driven myths about unproductive land uses, low investment and resource capture by political elites.”
• The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “…model of agrarian structure is unsustainable on both economic and justice grounds in the long term and that, following land reform, many smallholders have been successful at ‘accumulating from below’ and engaging in markets, including for export, despite numerous constraints (Scoones et al. 2010).”
• Land concentration and accumulation after redistributive reform in post-settler Zimbabwe (2011, background): “…ha of prime agricultural lands held by 4500 mainly white large-scale commercial farmers (LSCFs) to over 145,000 peasant families and over 20,000 middle-scale capitalist farmers, while retaining some LSCF farms and large-scale farming estates (Moyo et al. 2009, Scoones et al. 2010, Moyo 2011b).”
• An overview of Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe: editorial introduction (2011, background): “Moyo (2008) and Scoones et al. (2010) also advance proposals under which communal areas and those newly made available through state action like FTLRP should be subject to some form of community control and not completely individualised and alienated for all time – but stipulate that such control…”
• Global resource grabs, agribusiness concentration and the smallholder: two West African case studies (2012, background): “The IR has also featured in debates about land reform in southern Africa (Lipton 1993, Binswanger and Deininger 1993, Bernstein 2004, Sender and Johnston 2004, Moyo and Yeros 2005, Scoones et al. 2010) and the relative merits of the land reform programmes in South Africa and Zimbabwe.”