Land concentration and accumulation after redistributive reform in post-settler Zimbabwe
By S. Moyo. 2011
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Zimbabwe's recent fast-track land reform was redistributive, but it retained significant enclaves of large-scale agro-industrial estates owned by transnational, domestic and state capital, despite unfulfilled popular and domestic elite demands for land. Such estates were encouraged by the state to produce agro-fuel (ethanol from sugar), sugar, tea, coffee, timber and citrus, with wildlife ranching for domestic and export markets, alongside expanded small food producers. This outcome reflects the unresolved contradictions of seeking autonomous development in the context of sanctions, domestic political polarisation and declining agricultural production, while promoting reintegration into broader world markets. Neoliberal policies replaced dirigisme by 2008 to promote stabilisation and agricultural recovery but with limited impact. Foreign agricultural investment in Zimbabwe is nonetheless atypical of the current neoliberal land grabbing in Africa, since Zimbabwe reversed past inequalities and retains some state autonomy, and residual land concentration remains contested.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Zimbabwe's land reform: challenging the myths (2011, background): “Compared to 1990s averages, wheat production decreased by 27 percent and tobacco production by 43 percent, with more dramatic declines from 2006 (Moyo 2011a), yet there was some recovery, particularly for tobacco, in 2010 and 2011 (Anseeuw et al. 2011).”
- Changing agrarian relations after redistributive land reform in Zimbabwe (2011, methodology): “Often these affinities are used to exclude those defined as not belonging, but this operates unevenly among the provinces and peri-urban areas (Moyo 2011a).”
- An overview of Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe: editorial introduction (2011, background): “Many of the very largest of the former commercial farms, especially the ranches and agro-estates, most under corporate ownership, remain in private hands (Moyo 2011d).”