“Here it is our land, the two of us”:Footnote¹

A woman farmer in Sengezi resettlement area, commenting on the difference in her relationship to land in her former home in a Communal Area as compared to her current home in a resettlement area.

women, men and land in a Zimbabwean resettlement area

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