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Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe
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This article examines the empirical facts about the actual outcome of Zimbabwe's land reform, based on years of field research. It shows that the popular assumption about failed land reform in Zimbabwe is wrong on several counts: the character of Zimbabwe's land reform has been redistributive, and the extent of this has been wide enough to trigger significant progressive changes in the agrarian structure. This is despite some elites having benefited from the process and foreign-owned agro-industrial estates and conservancies being retained. The distribution of land among land reform beneficiaries has been relatively uneven, with some receiving larger land allocations than others, and this in turn influenced the differentiated access of these groups to farming services and infrastructure. Yet the productivity of small producers has grown slowly with output escalating recently. Three decades of land reform has recast land-based social relations in important ways, with the poor gaining more than previously believed.
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The paper argues that Zimbabwe’s three decades of land reform, especially the post-2000 Fast Track programme, produced a broadly redistributive shift in land ownership that benefited many poor rural and urban households, not only political elites. It also documents uneven outcomes: agricultural output fell heterogeneously, class and gender/ethnic/nationality inequalities persisted, and farm workers and tenure security remained major unresolved problems.
Key findings
- By 2009, 6,214 farms covering more than 10 million ha had been acquired; 168,671 families received land, including 145,775 A1 and 22,896 A2 allocations. A1 beneficiaries averaged about 20 ha and held 70% of transferred land; by 2010 over 22,000 A2 beneficiaries had plots averaging about 100 ha. Between 1980 and 2009, over 13 of 15 million ha controlled by about 6,000 white farmers in 1980 went to over 240,000 families.
- The redistribution was more pro-poor than critics claim: 70% of beneficiaries were on A1 small family farms; war veterans were less than 8% of beneficiaries; urban beneficiaries were 20–30%; 70% were unemployed, mainly rural. Women’s own-right land ownership rose to 12–18%, compared with 4% of white women on LSCF land and 5% of black women in earlier resettlement/communal areas.
- Agriculture did not simply collapse: by 2008 volume output was about 50% lower and value about 60% lower; among 15 key commodities declines ranged from under 10% to 70% of 1990s averages. Cereal output averaged 30–65% of national requirements and about 65% of 1990s levels; smallholder maize was around 65% of domestic needs and about 15% below 1990s average, while cotton, groundnuts and beans were relatively resilient.
- Exclusions and insecurities persisted: about 10% of land beneficiaries were former farm workers; roughly 100,000 former farm workers remained as insecure residents and 45,000 were displaced squatters; 68% of farm workers cited lack of secure land as a key problem. By 2006, 78.5% had offer letters, but 13.9% doubted tenure security and 17% were uncertain; 16% had faced eviction threats.
Methods
- Combines local sub-district field surveys from 2002–2004, an AIAS national baseline survey in 2005–2006 across six districts, and field visits in 2007 and 2009, plus secondary local/national data since 2000.
- Household interviews covered 2,089 A1 and A2 households (79% A1) and 761 farm workers (414 former, 347 new), using questionnaires, key informant interviews, focus groups, observations and open interviews.
- The article presents the macro picture; district-level details are being considered for separate publication.
Limitations
- The paper states it focuses on the macro picture and leaves wider district-level survey details to a separate paper; it also notes data on ethno-regional access to land remain weak and research has not yet quantified the quality of women’s land access under patriarchy.
- The text acknowledges that multiple/oversized holdings and subletting/fronting are concealed and difficult to verify, and that political party affiliation is elusive to measure; these make some distributional and political claims uncertain.
- Evident from the text: reliance on self-reported survey responses and incomplete/unallocated land records, plus ongoing litigation and informal land arrangements, limits precise measurement of tenure security and redistribution outcomes.
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“These unacquired lands represent a combination of export-focused agro-industrial plantations and conservancies and mining farmlands owned by transnational corporations.”
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“This stands in stark contrast to the pre-1980 and pre-1999 situations when agricultural lands were predominantly held by the LSCF farms and large estates.”
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“At that point white farmers comprised about four percent of the new large 'commercial' farming sector (comprising A2 landholders, agro-industrial estates and conservancies).”
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“Nevertheless, about 1.7 million hectares had not yet been acquired by 2009.”
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“In area terms, the Germans, Dutch, Swiss and Italians collectively held 70 percent of the total foreign-owned farms.”
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“The original FTLRP target of expropriating five million hectares has been overtaken.”
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“the bulk (65 percent) of which were from nine European nations”
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“although 70 of the farms (25 percent) were below 300 hectares in size.”
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“Seventy percent of these beneficiaries are in A1 farms -or the small-scale family farm units.”
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“The land reform was not free of corruption, as some evidence points to a few elites within the state farming apparatus and others connected to them monopolising the benefits from state estates, including the grazing of livestock on unutilised state farms.”
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“The FTLRP increased women's access to land ownership.”
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“but over 77 percent of them were eventually redistributed by 2009.”
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“Three countries from the South (South Africa, Mauritius, and Indonesia) held 33 percent of the farms in number and 27 percent in area.”
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“There were wide variations in the relative numbers of land beneficiaries and plot sizes across the various provinces and agro-ecological regions (Sukume andMoyo 2003, Moyo et al. 2009).”
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“The FTLRP also slightly altered the pattern of foreign land ownership in Zimbabwe.”
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“In addition, out of the 6,214 farmland properties held by over 4,000 white farmers that were acquired by 2009, there were still about 757,600 hectares (representing 517 gazetted farmland properties) which had not yet been allocated to beneficiaries.”
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“After the FTLRP only 23 percent of the foreign BIPPA protected farms had not been settled by illegal land occupiers or official beneficiaries”
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“Foreign ownership predominated in the remaining LSCF plantation sub-sector when the agro-industrial estates were included.”
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“In the survey districts 35 percent of the resident populations were former and new farm workers living in both A1 and A2 areas, but not recognised as land beneficiaries (Table 3).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
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“According to the AIAS Baseline Survey across six districts (Moyo et al. 2009), over 82 percent of the beneficiaries had been formally allocated land by government.”
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“Although the data remain weak on the ethno-regional dimension of access to land, available evidence suggests varying degrees of either under-representation or over-representation of some ethnic groups in land access in some provinces.”
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“Before the FTLRP there was widely differentiated foreign ownership in terms of size, with 267 farms owned by persons from 13 countries”
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“Across these three land reform phases, a wide range of blacks, especially the nonlanded, which includes poor land-short farmers, the landless, agricultural workers, poor urban workers and the unemployed, sought land reform to redress racial and class inequalities, foreign domination and historical loss.”
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“About 20 percent of the foreign-owned farms ranged in size from 2,000 to over 50,000 hectares”
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“Indeed there are 400 white farmers still on the farms.”
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“Contrary to the common assumptions about the newly redistributed lands, the survey revealed that substantial numbers of people other than the official land beneficiaries are settled on the land, including through informal land sharing and rental arrangements.”
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“Around 45,000 former farm workers are known to have been physically displaced and living as 'squatters' (Moyo andChambati 2004, Chambati andMagaramombe 2008).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agricultural workers: exclusions based on migrancy and nationality
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“While many former farm workers are indeed Zimbabwean they tended to live in socially segregated farm compounds under the landowners in pseudo-feudal patronage relationships (see also Rutherford 2003).”
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“Although still relatively small in number a new breed of black agrarian capitalist large-scale farm has also gradually emerged.”
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“By far the largest numbers of land beneficiaries (70 percent) were unemployed people mainly from rural areas.”
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“By 2010 however, over 20,000 had been allocated A2 plots in a variety of sizes.”
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“Yet only 16 percent of the beneficiaries had ever been threatened with eviction one or more times”
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“while about 100,000 of them, who were mainly part-time workers, returned to the Communal Areas (Magaramombe 2003, Sachikonye 2003, Moyo and Chambati 2004).”
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- Not matchedcites Magaramombe 2003
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“Boundary disputes were in general the major source of land conflicts”
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“About 100,000 former farm workers, 30 percent of whom are alleged to be of 'foreign migrant origin', remain as residents on insecure labour tenancies within the redistributed lands, in A2 and A1 areas.”
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“Conflicts over land, however, are significant.”
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“Nationally, the urban beneficiaries of the FTLRP range from 20 to 30 percent (Moyo et al. 2009).”
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“Some A2 beneficiaries hold 'multiple' and 'over-sized' farms.”
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“while most of the agroindustrial estates were spared.”
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“many war veterans did not get land”
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“participation in land occupations and negotiations with local leadership structures was key for A1 allocations.”
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“A number of black large-scale or A2 farmers have hired white farm managers who were either former landowners or farm managers, and they are paid salaries and/or shares of the farm produce.”
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“Access to A2 land allocations was more affected by this associational brokering”
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“those who did comprised less than eight percent of the land beneficiaries (Mutingwende 2004, Sadomba 2008, Moyo et al. 2009; also see Scoones et al. 2010).”
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“Notwithstanding the formally declared absence of freehold lands in newly distributed areas, a degree of land sales, sub-plot letting and plot rentals or informal land markets has been brewing (Sukume and Moyo 2003)”
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“Close to 70,000 out of the 350,000 former farm workers remain as labourers in the unacquired commercial farms and agro-industrial estates”
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- Not matchedcites Magaramombe 2003
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“many people who were not necessarily Zanu PF voters were involved in the land allocation process.”
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“Among the A1 beneficiaries many belonged to provinces and areas that voted against Zanu PF in 2005 and 2008.”
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“The smaller farmers, who depend mostly on rainfed farming, had the least access to the limited agricultural finance and inputs provided by the state.”
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“Private investments into productive assets (e.g.irrigation facilities, electrification, farm structures such as barns, animal sheds, granaries and fences, etc.) and machinery and equipment (e.g.tractors, dyers, grinding mills, etc.) remained low.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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“The number of small farm producers, who hold land ranging in size from one to 30 hectares, depending on natural region, and combining family arable landholdings, ranging from 0.2 to 5.0 hectares, and common grazing land, has expanded to over 1.3 million families (Table 4).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
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“A policy coalition lobbying for the conversion of public agricultural land tenures (through leases and permits) to freehold title or private property, for 'free' agricultural inputs to A2 farmers and more liberalised commodity markets, and to maintain the cheap agricultural labour system, has been in the making.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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“From then on, the government attempted to implement a heterodox macro-economic plan based on a range of policy instruments: control of foreign exchange, imports, and exports; the regulation of interest rates; the targeting of credit to essential industries; the subsidising of basic commodities and utilities; and expansive money supply (M3) through printing.”
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“Small and middle capitalist farmers, which include pre-existing small-scale commercial farmers created during the colonial period and the 'new' black commercial farmers created through post-independence allocations towards building indigenous commercial farms, as well as the bulk of the A2 fast-track beneficiaries, expanded dramatically by about 300 percent.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
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“The large estate farming sector, which mostly comprises land which was not expropriated by the state for redistribution, amounts to about 240 farms covering over 1.4 million hectares, or about five percent of the agricultural land.”
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“However, this new black bourgeoisie struggled to achieve organisational and strategic coherence in alliance with pre-existing capital until 2007.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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“Middle and large capitalist farmers, in political alliance under the ideology of 'indigenisation', envisioned their role in the differentiated agrarian sector as focused on the production of high-value commodities (including exports) such as tobacco, potatoes, and beef), while peasants would produce labour intensive exports such as cotton and cheap-wage food such as maize grains for domestic”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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“The reintroduction of neoliberal policy in 2008 has led to a significant but partial process of reorganization of capital across the economic sectors, with the erstwhile and nascent agrarian bourgeoisies joining forces, economically and politically, particularly with the transport, retail, and finance (new indigenous banking institutions) sectors (Moyo and Yeros 2009).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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“Contrary to the impression that new farmers were not investing on the new land due to land tenure insecurity and collateral issues, survey data shows that there has been substantial investment (see Table 10).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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“About 68 percent of the farm workers indicated that their key land problem was their lack of access to secure land for residency and to exploit natural resources for their basic needs (Chambati 2009).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
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“Especially resilient were cotton, groundnuts and beans, with declines of less than 15 percent in non-drought years.”
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“Initially the emergence of a new and differentiated black agrarian bourgeoisie, linked to the ruling party and in pole positions of the state apparatus, was at the centre of agrarian and heterodox policy formulation (Moyo and Yeros 2009).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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“Although the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) was built upon two decades of lacklustre land reforms, the cumulative outcome of three decades of land reforms was redistributive in terms of the physical scale and breadth of access to agricultural land.”
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“But, many communal farmers (40 percent) and land reform beneficiaries do not have oxen or farm machinery, or sufficient resources to acquire these.”
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“Thus during the fast track period, agricultural production declined less in the communal and resettled areas, despite the adverse economic conditions.”
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“Agricultural production of Zimbabwe's 15 main commodities, in terms of their value and volumes produced by most farmers, had by 2009 fallen below the pre-2000 average levels, in a highly heterogeneous manner (see Table 9).”
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“Notable is the fact that many of the new farms or land beneficiaries also employ farm workers, among both the small-(A1) and medium-to larger-scale new farmers (see Table 3).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
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- Not matchedcites Table 3
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“while the outcome does suggest that urbanites influenced the land reform allocation processes”
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“The ethno-regional pressures from some central and local elites to exclude those who did not belong to the localities were not universally accepted.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“some farm workers have been resisting cheap labour conditions through various labour provision strategies, including the desertion of poorly paid work.”
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“sector grew slowly since 2000 as compared to previous levels”
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“The new middle farmers, stimulated by returning and new agrarian merchants, lean towards producing export commodities, such as tobacco and others.”
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“In sum, contrary to the popular assumption that only cronies of the ruling party benefited from land redistribution, empirical data demonstrate that ordinary poor people benefited from land redistribution -to an extent that is far greater than previously estimated.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
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“Yet, it is wrong to claim that such corrupt practice is the dominant trend, as suggested by other observers (see also Scoones et al. 2010).”
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- Not matchedcites Scoones et al. 2010
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“Whereas more of them could have been selected to remain on the basis of their skills and experience, it can hardly be argued that their representation is racially inequitable.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
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“Nonetheless, increased access to these varied resources indicates that much more has been gained than the focus on the redistributed land reveals.”
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“This occurred because women's advocacy groups (such as the Women's Land Lobby Group) were among the few NGOs who openly supported the land reform by demanding access to the expropriated land.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
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“Nonetheless, the increased access to land by women in both A1 and A2 areas suggests a new dynamic in the gender relations in land access and use.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
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“The application process became ethno-regionally structured.”
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“In fact the FTLRP has led to a 'de-racialisation' of the LSCF sector since the addition of thousands more A2 black commercial farmers.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
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“Thus, the inter-class land redistribution via A1 and (small to medium) A2 schemes differs from the intra-class transfer of land ownership that happened between one racial group and another (from white elites to black elites) which some 'indigenisation' proponents espoused.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agricultural workers: exclusions based on migrancy and nationality
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“The upper end of the A2 scheme has, to some degree, diluted the redistributive character of the FTLRP, even if its scale is relatively small.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agricultural workers: exclusions based on migrancy and nationality
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“Land redistribution has allowed a large section of rural peasant society to use their own family labour for their own social reproduction in newly gained farming lands.”
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“Overall, therefore, there has been a broadening of the black rural 'middle class' through the creation of new capitalist farmers.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Roots of class differentiation after land redistribution
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“Thus, farm workers' residential land rights and access to small food security plots continue, as before 2000, to be informal and tied to their provision of specific labour services to landowners.”
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“A class-based differentiation process in the creation of black capitalist farmers arose firstly from the original policy design which created the A2 schemes (since 1998), which was later elaborated into three categories of beneficiaries: the small-, medium-and large-scale new commercial farms.”
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“The differential status and origins of those who gained access to varied land sizes and assets within the newly redistributed agricultural land suggests the emergence of a new agrarian structure.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Roots of class differentiation after land redistribution
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“Redistribution has in general reversed the labour subordinating effects that land dispossession had enabled.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
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“Land reform had by 2010 led to a major reconfiguration of Zimbabwe's agrarian structure in terms of landholding sizes.”
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“This evidence questions the common tendency to assume that most beneficiaries were urban-based elites employed by government.”
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“The new middle farmer was thus the most constrained by tillage capacity.”
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“The middle capitalist farmers, including the remaining large units, retain their advantage in the land bidding and accumulation processes by virtue of their better access to other means of production (credit and technology), to contacts and information, and to the policy-making process itself.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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“This systemic source of agrarian de-accumulation and the incapacity of the state to support agriculture through the national budget led the state to resort to extensive 'quasi-fiscal' funding in general, and substantially for agriculture.”
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“Nonetheless, the overall outcome contradicts common perceptions that the FTLRP was not redistributive and mainly benefited black elites and cronies of the ruling Zanu PF.”
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“Land redistribution has also opened new avenues for rural labour as workers or self-employed operators in small mining (especially of gold), wildlife, exploitation, and fuel-wood and timber extraction.”
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“The agricultural productivity crisis thus mostly affected the small and medium farms.”
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“Although Zimbabwe's radicalised land reform was fuelled by complex factors (Moyo andYeros 2007a, 2007b)”
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“it also suggests that they did not automatically dominate the beneficiary selection process, as would be expected by notions of 'urban bias' in African policy processes.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“This class bias, however, also queries the over-generalisations about the neopatrimonial nature of African political regimes and agricultural policy processes (see also deGrassi 2008).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites deGrassi 2008 source
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“internal class contradictions have enabled (politically unaccountable) international capital to reinforce the emerging unequal agrarian relations, using deregulated market mechanisms tied to the unequal world trade regime.”
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“But the practice of compound farm labour tenancy and low wages have reproduced the cheap labour relations of the past.”
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“A relatively broader interclass class framework of inequalities in access to land, control of public resources and influence over labour policies is emerging.”
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“In general, however, the political environment for rural farm labour has also been relatively opened up by the removal of the monopoly of the few LSCF employers”
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“since capital was not totally ousted in Zimbabwe's land reform”
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“The FTLRP phase of the land reform officially benefited 168,671 families, comprising mainly the rural poor and their urban counterparts across 9.2 million hectares.”
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“Land redistribution also brought along increased access to and better distribution of the benefits from natural resources such as water, indigenous forests and wildlife, as well as other social benefits realised from such resources.”
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“However, the bulk (over 70 percent) of this land has since been redistributed mostly to A1 and A2 beneficiaries as of 2010.”
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“Some of the better-off black middle class, entrepreneurs and political elites also gained land, sometimes claiming to be 'landless', due to past racial-and class-based segregation and exclusions.”
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“The scale of state farming land decreased to about 115,601 hectares while the private transfers to a few black capitalist farmers with LSCF amounted to 530,632 hectares.”
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“These families acquired an average 20 hectares of land, and hold 70 percent of the transferred land, through the A1 schemes.”
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“By 2010 over 22,000 new small, medium, and large-scale capitalists also benefited with relatively larger plots averaging about 100 hectares under the A2 scheme.This scheme had benefited, about 16,000 families in 2008.”
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“By 2009, 6,214 farmland properties covering above 10 million hectares were being acquired, but not all were allocated, and 168,671 families gained land (see Table 1).”
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“The FTLRP chose not to redistribute these lands but to expand them, even though there are popular demands for such land.”
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“Interestingly, the large agro-industrial plantations or estates and conservancies were not substantively expropriated, although they lost some land and/or were partially 'illegally' occupied.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
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“Between 1980 and 2009, over 13 of the 15 million hectares of land, which in 1980 were controlled mostly by 6,000 white farmers, had been transferred to over 240,000 families of largely rural origin, but in a relatively differentiated manner (Table 2).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
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“By 2009, less than 400 individually owned white farms remained.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
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“Meanwhile, the GoZ (MLRR 2009) reports that there are over 100,000 people on its waiting lists for land, indicating that there is still very high demand for land despite the redistribution, especially when we add the demands for residential land in urban and rural areas.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
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- Not matchedcites MLRR 2009
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“A larger proportion of women, between 12 and 18 percent, now own land in their own right (Buka 2002, Utete 2003, GoZ 2007), compared to the four percent of white women who owned LSCF lands (Rugube et al. 2003, Moyo 1998) and the five percent of black women who controlled the land in previous resettlement areas and communal lands (see Figure 1).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Buka 2002
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- Not matchedcites Utete 2003
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- Not matchedcites GoZ 2007
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“As a result of land redistribution, about 13 percent of Zimbabwe's entire agricultural land is now held by a range of middle-scale farmers (on A2, LSCF and small-scale commercial farms [SSCF]), while over 70 percent is held by small farm producers (in the Communal Areas, in A1 areas and in informal settlements), and only 11 percent is held by large farms and estates.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
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“Most of the LSCF were multiple farm owners with average landholdings above 1,000 hectares”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Roots of class differentiation after land redistribution
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“Middle farms range in size from about 50 to 150 hectares, combine draught and mechanical power, use relatively more hired labour alongside family labour, and crop relatively larger areas (with fertilisers) than small producers.”
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“The numbers of peasants and small-to medium-scale farmers increased, and together they control over 80 percent of the land, leading to a significantly reduced number of large-scale farms and estates.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
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“By 2006 up to 78.5 percent of the land beneficiaries confirmed having 'land offer letters', while the rest claimed to have already received GoZ lease documents and title deeds (Moyo et al. 2009, Mhishi 2007), 7”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land tenure security
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Moyo et al. 2009
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- Not matchedcites Mhishi 2007
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“Fewer than 25 percent of beneficiaries continue to retain their formal employment, with most of these having originated from urban areas.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Roots of class differentiation after land redistribution
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“The land tenure system is socially differentiated as the A2 beneficiaries are provided long lease contracts while the A1 beneficiaries get vague permits.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land tenure security
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“There is also a new wave of large-scale foreign investments in agriculture, mainly on the remaining private estates, the DTZ and state estates.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
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“the membership of political parties has been malleable over the last decade, and it is a highly elusive variable to measure given the sensitivities and multiple tactical allegiances.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land access and political party affiliation
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“The dilemma facing the policy elites by 2002 was that over 50,000 people had applied for A2 plots, far more than the 8,000 who had been offered land (Utete 2003).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Roots of class differentiation after land redistribution
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- Not matchedcites Utete 2003
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“The main process of change has been the expansion in number and area of small cultivators and the expansion of the new 'middle farmer', 6 at the expense of the few formerly 6”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Roots of class differentiation after land redistribution
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“The smaller segment of large-scale capitalist farmers now includes both black and white farmers, but their landholdings have been substantially downsized to an average of 700 hectares, compared to the average of 2,000 hectares held by large-scale landowners in the past.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
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“About 26 percent of the A1 land beneficiaries shared land, while only 15 percent of the A2 households did (Moyo et al. 2009).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > 7
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- Not matchedcites Moyo et al. 2009
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“Nonetheless about 10 percent of the land beneficiaries were former farm workers who were allocated A1 or A2 plots, some as farm workers, a few as 'land occupiers' (Sadomba 2008, Moyo et al. 2009), and others as members of communal area structures rather than as farm workers (Chambati 2009).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agricultural workers: exclusions based on migrancy and nationality
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Sadomba 2008
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- Not matchedcites Moyo et al. 2009
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- Not matchedcites Chambati 2009
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“Most beneficiaries came from rural areas, largely from Communal Areas, with some from the farm worker populations in LSCF areas.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Roots of class differentiation after land redistribution
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“As a follow-up assessment of the land tenure right, a 99year lease document has been given to some A2 landholders, while an A1 permit is still to be issued.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > 7
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“From 2003, the state mounted an extensive scheme to promote agricultural mechanisation.But it was the medium to large new farmers who got the lion's share of this.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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“A substantial number of the agro-industrial estates, conservancies, foreign owned farms and a few white LSCFs were retained, although they are outnumbered by and have less land than the small-to medium-scale farms.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“Maize and cotton yields in Zimbabwe declined most, with small producer maize yields below one tonne per hectare (FAO 2008(FAO , 2009) ) and middle farmers yields below three tonnes per hectare, in comparison to the dryland potential of ten tonnes per hectare (Rukuni et al. 2009).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites FAO 2008
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- Not matchedcites Rukuni et al. 2009
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“Even the maize produced, largely by small farmers, comprised around 65 percent of domestic requirements during most non-drought years, and was barely 15 percent below the average levels of maize production during the 1990s (Moyo 2011).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Moyo 2011 source
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“Some agricultural capital stock such as irrigation infrastructure, processing facilities and machinery and equipment that were on the former farms were disabled during the fast track process, and this had had some effect on constraining production levels; however some of the new farmers acquired some of these technologies from former farmers.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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“Most of the large-scale private agricultural lands owned by the minority white large-scale farmers and foreign capital in large estates was expropriated and allocated largely free of charge to mainly poor non-landed beneficiaries, as well as to numerous 'middle class' and some 'black elite' beneficiaries.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“There was also an upsurge in the production of some critical food crops, such as dry edible beans (see Table 10), as well as of small stock rearing.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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“Since the GoZ abandoned structural adjustment in 1996, its relations with the West have been polarised, leading to major contradictions with capital.The Bretton Woods loans and other forms of aid were cut, Western capital retreated, and a sanctions regime was elaborated, while material support was given to the opposition (see Elich 2002, Mamdani 2008).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Elich 2002
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- Not matchedcites Mamdani 2008
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“Agricultural production in volume terms had declined by about 50 percent in 2008 -by closer to 60 percent in foreign exchange or general value terms -although among the 15 key agricultural commodities, output declines varied from between less than 10 percent to 70 percent of the 1990s average levels of production.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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In the paper
“Disaggregated labour hiring patterns (Chambati and Moyo 2009) suggest that about 26 percent of land beneficiaries use hired labour intensively, while on average most households command family labour pools of 3.5 persons (see Table 5).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Chambati and Moyo 2009
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- Not matchedcites Table 5
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“While, the level of agricultural tractorisation in Zimbabwe (at 75 per km 2 ) also varies by sub-sector, and is relatively low compared to South Africa, cropped areas of grains did not decline, except for wheat because of its specific mechanisation deficits.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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“In 2000, agricultural land legalistically refers to the 11.7 million hectares of LSCF, although in practice the 16.4 million hectares of the Communal Areas are functionally agricultural lands, bringing the entire area of Zimbabwe's agricultural land to 28.1 million hectares.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
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“The heterodox plan did not seem to be adequately coordinated, especially in relation to food production and exports, and it soon faced implementation problems, including the general evasion of the controls (e.g. in maize marketing) and countervailing 'underground' trade and petty businesses.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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“Undoubtedly, fewer than expected farm workers gained land rights.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“Since 2009, the Inclusive Government has not secured the requisite willingness, orientation, and capacity to effect the desired interventionist agrarian policies, nor has it effectively mobilised popular social forces in support of egalitarian agrarian reform in favour of domestic accumulation, expanded employment and a growing home market.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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“Approximately, a quarter of the remaining large scale farms are registered as private companies.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“but the food production base has expanded and has shown signs of increased growth since 2009.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“Freed from depending on the few LSCF employers, farm labour is now employed by a diverse range of smaller farm employers and in non-farm self-employment and paid activities.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“The productivity of the small and medium farm sector grew slowly since 2000 as compared to previous levels, but the food production base has expanded and has shown signs of increased growth since”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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In the paper
“These foreign land holdings were relatively large in scale compared to the wider land grabbing that is underway in Africa.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
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“Since demographically the white population, which is less than 75,000, is well below half a percent of the total population, if former white farmers constitute at least one percent of A2 farmers, or about 100 of the remaining LSCF farmers (excluding the mainly foreign white-owned large agro-industrial corporations), then their representation would be proportionate.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
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“By 1999 Zimbabwe had about 4,500 LSCF (Large-Scale Commercial Farms) farmers, including individually operated and corporate farms and estates (plantations).These 4,500 'farmers' owned over 9,000 farmland properties with separate title deeds”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Rutherford 2001
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“Consequently, access to land, particularly in the A2 scheme, tended to be partly shaped by ethno-regional affinities throughout all the provinces, although the policy was that the A2 scheme was 'national'.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
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“land reform was, for some, intended to 'deracialise' commercial farming (Nkomo 2001).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Nkomo 2001
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“The post-2000 land reform has resulted in a range of exclusions and inclusions, resulting in a highly differentiated pattern.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
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“Redistributive land reforms would, it was argued, breakdown the territorial and social segregation of Communal Areas from former large-scale commercial farming areas in terms of local administration and land tenure regulation, and enable the free flow of people, goods, services, and livestock between them.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
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“During the last three decades, Zimbabwe implemented land reform in three phases.The first phase, lasting through 1985, consisted of market sales of land led by state land acquisition and redistribution.It also entailed intensive illegal land occupations.”
- Also stated in: § Land redistribution over three decades · plain
“The second phase, from 1986 until 1999, through the era of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), enabled the state to acquire some land through expropriation and market mechanisms.”
- Also stated in: § Land redistribution over three decades · plain
“The third, FTLRP phase, which began in 2000 and entailed intensive land expropriation alongside 'illegal land occupations', has continued until 2010.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
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“This reflects a simmering ethnicised intra-class competition for land, replicating incipient tendencies in the 1990s (Moyo 1995(Moyo , 1999)).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Moyo 1995
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Moyo 1999 source
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“More critically, redistributive land reform in Zimbabwe was conceived to relieve landlessness and 'overcrowding'.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Land redistribution over three decades
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In the paper
“Women mostly benefited from access to land as spouses, implying a subordinate level of control over such land.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Race, gender, ethnicity and nationality
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“Nonetheless any degree of the incidence of multiple land holding is non-compliant with policy and diminishes the redistributive character of the land reform.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Roots of class differentiation after land redistribution
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- Rests on an assumption: The FTLRP's policy objective was redistributive land reform.
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In the paper
“Social differentiation in access to land also had a class dimension, such that the outcome has the potential to reconfigure class formation processes.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Roots of class differentiation after land redistribution
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In the paper
“These findings confirm the shift towards increased demand for land that occurred in the context of declining formal employment and wages under structural adjustment in the 1990s, as well as an urban response to the deepening economic crises that evolved during the 2000s.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Roots of class differentiation after land redistribution
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In the paper
“Excessive money printing drove hyperinflation which reinforced this 'informalisation' process, alongside the corruption of some in authority.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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In the paper
“The prospect for progressive agrarian reform in Zimbabwe is promising although this has been circumscribed by a combination of forces, including the recent strains in the relations between local capital and the state apparatus, and the reaction of local and foreign capital to the replacement of the economically conservative and politically reactionary former landowners, who have retained strong”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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In the paper
“Although this was ascribed to the absence of 'investor confidence', the 'risks of doing business in Zimbabwe' and the absence of land tenure security, both international isolation and sanctions and the retreat of capital played critical roles in engendering this downward spiral.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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In the paper
“Indeed, the extent of redistribution was wide enough to significantly alter property relations in terms of relative land distribution and the socialisation of property rights, in turn triggering dynamic changes in agrarian social relations.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“Re-peasantisation has therefore been a significant phenomenon of agrarian change under fast-track land reform, with the entry of urban working class elements into the A1 and resettlement schemes, leading to the growth of a class of new petty commodity producers, which now account for 93.7 percent of total new farming establishments (Moyo and Yeros 2005).”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Moyo and Yeros 2005 source
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In the paper
“Agrarian politics after the peak of FTLRP land transfers in 2004 shifted from the inter-class and intra-class (white-black) contests over access to land towards competing claims for and access to public resources for agrarian accumulation and social reproduction.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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In the paper
“Despite the outcome being generally progressive, a key regressive feature is the substantial enlargement of the upper middle and elite class beneficiaries, most of whom call for even larger land allocations under freehold tenure.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“The latter which is akin to 'share-cropping' appears to have replaced agricultural credit in scale, given the financial isolation of Zimbabwe (i.e. through a range of 'sanctions').”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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In the paper
“This pattern of low levels of mechanization, fertilizer and pesticide utilization suggests a regression in the agricultural technological transition, and in part accounts for the decline in crop productivity.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Has agriculture been 'destroyed' or 'transformed'?
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“Clearly the land and labour rights of farm workers remain poor.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > New agrarian structure and changing agrarian relations
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In the paper
“Production levels remain below expectations, largely due to the shortages of fertilisers, irrigation facilities and draft power arising from reduced domestic agro-industrial input supply capacities and foreign exchange constraints on imports.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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In the paper
“Agrarian production relations have been restructured by broadening the food and export production base, although this is characterised by critical inequalities in access to agricultural inputs, public subsidies and finance, contingent on an unfolding social differentiation among the beneficiaries within the bi-modal agrarian reform policy.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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In the paper
“This is particularly relevant for other former settler-colonial countries.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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In the paper
“This is not surprising, given that Zimbabwe's land reform did not lead to the comprehensive dissolution of the political power of large agrarian capital, which operates in tandem with international capital.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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In the paper
“Furthermore, the state apparatus has been overwhelmed by middle class black 'empowerment' demands, reflecting the qualitative shifts in the nature of state power, which the new farmers are constituent parts of and directly lobby.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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In the paper
“This played a critical role in the wider economic collapse of Zimbabwe, and in the shift in the correlation of forces around agrarian radicalism and neoliberal inspired regime change.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Agrarian politics and neoliberal reformism
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“The redistributive outcome, however, entailed critical class-and gender-based distributional biases, reflecting unequal class-based patriarchal power.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“alternative sources of financing Zimbabwe's agrarian reform have been limited”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“The reforms in Zimbabwe entailed the mobilisation of both popular direct action for land reform and an expropriation policy, and the state sought to meet both the popular demands for land and those of the middle classes, the bureaucracy and national elites.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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“Nonetheless, the Zimbabwe experience illustrates that even under neoliberalism, the potential for radical land reform exists, especially where land ownership grievances relate to minority racial and foreign dominance in addition to class difference.”
§ Three decades of agrarian reform in Zimbabwe > Conclusion
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The FTLRP's policy objective was redistributive land reform.
“how this contradicts the policy objective of redistributive land reform”
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The land occupations after the FTLRP were illegal.
“illegal land occupiers”
The paper relies on this without support.
The pre-2000 average agricultural production levels provide a valid baseline for measuring post-2000 production decline.
“Agricultural production of Zimbabwe's 15 main commodities, in terms of their value and volumes produced by most farmers, had by 2009 fallen below the pre-2000 average levels, in a highly heterogeneous manner (see Table 9).”
The paper relies on this without support.
The AIAS Baseline Survey (2007) data on investments is representative of land reform beneficiaries in Zimbabwe.
“Contrary to the impression that new farmers were not investing on the new land due to land tenure insecurity and collateral issues, survey data shows that there has been substantial investment (see Table 10).”
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The source backs part of the claim, not all of it — or backs it for a different population, condition or comparison.
In the citing paper
“Zimbabwe's controversial land reform of 2000 transferred over 10 million hectares of land to around 146,000 smallholder farm families (in so -called A1 resettlement areas) and 23,000 medium -scale farms (A2 resettlements)”
From Tobacco, contract farming, and agrarian change in Zimbabwe (2018) · cites this paper as Moyo, 2011
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Reported average plot size is below the A1 average
MinorThe paper reports an average of 20 hectares for the beneficiary families, but even the A1 figures in Table 2 give 39.5 hectares per beneficiary. The average across A1 and A2 beneficiaries would be higher still.
Reported 20 · recomputed 39.507138
“These families acquired an average 20 hectares of land, and hold 70 percent of the transferred land, through the A1 schemes.”
Masvingo's A2 percentage does not match its count
MinorTable 1 gives Masvingo 1,348 A2 beneficiaries and an A2 total of 22,896. Its share is 5.9%, rather than the 34.5% printed in the provincial row.
Reported 34.5 · recomputed 5.887491
“| Masvingo | 485 | 7.8 1,961,805 18.1 33,197 22.8 1,348 34.5 34,545 20.5 |”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Moyo, S.
- Corresponding author
- Moyo, Sam
- Venue
- Journal of Peasant Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-07
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 493-531
- ISSN
- 0306-6150 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-9361
- OpenAlex
- W1987944545
- Semantic Scholar
- 04be7ab6b4db901c57685aa487c3a7f50efc5d1a
- Cited by
- 253
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 41.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Journal of Peasant Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Land Rights and Reforms
- Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Keywords
- land reform, land redistribution, Zimbabwe, agrarian structure, land allocation, smallholder productivity, land reform beneficiaries, conservancies
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