679
Views
9
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The politics of youth struggles for land in post-land reform Zimbabwe

La dimension politique des luttes foncières des jeunes dans le Zimbabwe post-réforme agraire

, , & ORCID Icon

References

  • African Union. 2006. African Youth Charter. Accessed February 3, 2020. https://www.refworld.org/docid/493fe0b72.html.
  • Bernstein, H. 2010. Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
  • Bhatasara, S., and M. K. Chiweshe. 2017. “Beyond Gender: Interrogating Women’s Experiences in FTLRP in Zimbabwe.” Africa Review 9 (2): 154–172. doi: 10.1080/09744053.2017.1329808
  • Boone, C., and N. Kriger. 2010. “Multiparty Elections and Land Patronage: Zimbabwe and Côte D’Ivoire.” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 48 (2): 173–202. doi: 10.1080/14662041003672502
  • Borras, S. M. 1998. The Bibingka Strategy to Land Reform and Implementation: Autonomous Peasant Mobilizations and State Reformists in the Philippines. Working Paper Series. The Hague: Institute of Social Studies.
  • Borras, S. M. 2007. Pro-poor Land Reform: A Critique. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
  • Borras, S. M., and J. C. Franco. 2005. “Struggles for Land and Livelihood: Redistributive Reform in Agribusiness Plantations in the Philippines.” Critical Asian Studies 37 (3): 331–361. doi: 10.1080/14672710500200383
  • Borras, S. M., J. C. Franco, S. R. Isakson, L. Levidow, and P. Vervest. 2016. “The Rise of Flex Crops and Commodities: Implications for Research.” Journal of Peasant Studies 43 (1): 93–115. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2015.1036417
  • Borras, S. M., J. C. Franco, and C. Wang. 2013. “The Challenge of Global Governance of Land Grabbing: Changing International Agricultural Context and Competing Political Views and Strategies.” Globalizations 10 (1): 161–179. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2013.764152
  • Bryceson, D. F. 2002. “The Scramble in Africa: Reorienting Rural Livelihoods.” World Development 30 (5): 725–739. doi: 10.1016/S0305-750X(02)00006-2
  • Chambati, W. 2017. “Changing Forms of Wage Labour in Zimbabwe’s New Agrarian Structure.” Agrarian South 6: 73–112.
  • Chimhowu, A., and P. Woodhouse. 2006. “‘Officially’ Forbidden but Not Suppressed: Vernacular Land Markets on Communal Lands in Zimbabwe. A Case Study of Svosve Communal Land Zimbabwe.” Paper presented at Colloque international : Les frontières de la question foncière [At the frontier of land issues]. Montpellier, France.
  • Chinsinga, B. 2010. “The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Processes in Malawi: A Case Study of the Fertilizer Subsidy Programme.” Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa Work Stream. Future Agricultures. Accessed February 3, 2020. https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/2249/FAC_Working_Paper_039.pdf?sequence=1.
  • Chinsinga, B., and M. Chasukwa. 2012. “Youth, Agriculture and Land Grabs in Malawi.” IDS Bulletin 43 (6): 67–77. doi: 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2012.00380.x
  • Chipenda, C. 2018. After Land Reform in Zimbabwe: What about the Youth? Conference Paper 73. Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies.
  • Chiweshe, M. K. 2011. “Farm Level Institutions in Emergent Communities in Post Fast Track Zimbabwe: Case of Mazowe District.” PhD thesis, Rhodes University.
  • Cotula, L. 2011. Land Deals in Africa: What Is In The Contracts? London: IIED.
  • Cousins, B. 2017. SA Land Plan: It’s a Case of Distract, Deceive and Divide. University of Western Cape: PLAAS.
  • Cousins, B., D. Weiner, and N. Amin. 1992. “Social Differentiation in the Communal Lands of Zimbabwe.” Review of African Political Economy 19 (53): 5–24. doi: 10.1080/03056249208703936
  • de Janvry, A., and E. Sadoulet. 2001. Access to Land and Land Policy Reforms. Helsinki: United Nations University World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  • Delgado Wise, R., and H. Veltmeyer. 2016. Agrarian Change, Migration and Development. Rugby: Practical Action Publishing.
  • Dewa, T. 2016. “Magaya, Kasukuwere in illegal land deal — President Mugabe.” Nehandaradio.com, September 8. Accessed December 4, 2018. https://nehandaradio.com/2016/09/08/magaya-kasukuwere-illegal-land-deal-president-mugabe/.
  • Federici, S. 2011. “Women, Land Struggles, and the Reconstruction of the Commons.” Journal of Labor and Society 14 (1): 41–56.
  • Government of Zimbabwe. 2008. The Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act. Harare: Government Printer.
  • Government of Zimbabwe. 2013. Constitution of Zimbabwe (2013). Harare: Government Printer.
  • Government of Zimbabwe. 2018. Land Commission Act [Chapter 20:29]. Harare: Government Printer.
  • Greco, E. 2016. “Village Land Politics and the Legacy of Ujamaa.” Review of African Political Economy 43 (S1): 22–40. doi: 10.1080/03056244.2016.1219179
  • James, D. G. 2014. “Zimbabwe’s ‘New’ Smallholders: Who Got Land and Where did They Come From?” Review of African Political Economy 41 (141): 424–440. doi: 10.1080/03056244.2014.901948
  • Jones, G. 2009. Youth. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Kidido, J. K., J. T. Bugri, and R. K. Kasanga. 2017. “Dynamics of Youth Access to Agricultural Land Under the Customary Tenure Regime in the Techiman Traditional Area of Ghana.” Land Use Policy 60: 254–266. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.10.040
  • Lund, C. 2011. Land Rights and Citizenship in Africa. Discussion Paper 65. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
  • Mafeje, A. 2003. “The Agrarian Question, Access to Land, and Peasant Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Civil Society and Social Movements Programme Paper 6. Geneva: UNRISD. Accessed February 3, 2020. http://www.unrisd.org/UNRISD/website/document.nsf/240da49ca467a53f80256b4f005ef245/a2b577c61b19f92ec1256d56002b5291/$FILE/mafeje2.pdf.
  • Mahove, V. 2016. “Zanu-PF lures Zim Youth Vote with Land.” IOL News Africa. Accessed February 3, 2020. https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/zanu-pf-lures-zim-youth-vote-with-land-2047591.
  • Makunike, B. 2014. “Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe.” PhD thesis, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein.
  • Marongwe, N. 2011. “Who Was Allocated Fast Track Land, and What Did They Do with It? Selection of A2 Farmers in Goromonzi District, Zimbabwe and its Impacts on Agricultural Production.” Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (5): 1069–1092. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2011.636483
  • Marx, K 1976. Capital, vol. 1. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. First published 1867.
  • Matondi, P. B. 2012. Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform. London: Zed Books.
  • Mazwi, F., N. Tekwa, W. Chambati, and G. T. Mudimu. 2018. “Locating the Position of Peasants Under the ‘New Dispensation’: A Focus on Land Tenure Issues.” In Policy Brief 03/2018. Harare: The Sam Moyo African Institute of Agrarian Studies.
  • Min-Harris, C. 2009. “Youth Migration and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Empowering the Rural Youth.” Tropical Review Digest: Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa. Human Rights and Human Welfare: An Online Journal of Academic Literature Review 159–186. https://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/researchdigest/africa/YouthMigration.pdf.
  • Mkodzongi, G. 2012. “Fast Tracking Land Reform and Rural Livelihoods in Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe: Opportunities and Constraints, 2000–2013.” PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
  • Moore, D. 2001. “Is the Land the Economy and the Economy the Land? Primitive Accumulation in Zimbabwe.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 19 (2): 253–266. doi: 10.1080/02589000120066489
  • Moyo, S. 1995. The Land Question in Zimbabwe. Harare: Institute of Development Studies.
  • Moyo, S. 2003. “The Land Question in Africa: Research Perspectives and Questions.” Paper presented at Codesria Conferences on land reform, the agrarian question and nationalism in Gaborone, Botswana, October 18–19, and Dakar, Senegal, December 8–11. Accessed February 3, 2020. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241155297_The_Land_Question_in_Africa_Research_Perspectives_and_Questions.
  • Moyo, S. 2004. “The Land and Agrarian Question in Zimbabwe.” Paper presented at the Conference on ‘The Agrarian Constraint and Poverty Reduction: Macroeconomic Lessons for Africa', Addis Ababa, 17–18 December, 2004. Accessed February 3, 2020. http://sarpn.org/documents/d0001097/P1211-Moyo_Dec2004.pdf.
  • Moyo, S. 2007. “Land in the Political Economy of African Development: Alternative Strategies for Reform.” Africa Development 32 (4): 1–34.
  • Moyo, S. 2011. “Land Concentration and Accumulation After Redistributive Reform in Post-settler Zimbabwe.” Review of African Political Economy 38(128): 257–276. doi: 10.1080/03056244.2011.582763
  • Moyo, S., W. Chambati, T. Murisa, D. Siziba, C. Dangwa, K. Mujeyi, and N. Nyoni. 2009. Fast Track Land Reform Baseline Study: Trends and Tendencies, 2005/06. Harare: African Institute for Agrarian Studies.
  • Moyo, S., B. Rutherford, and D. Amanor-Wilks. 2000. “Land Reform and Changing Social Relations of Farmworkers in Zimbabwe.” Review of African Political Economy 27(84): 181–202. doi: 10.1080/03056240008704454
  • Moyo, S., and P. Yeros. 2007. “The Radicalised State: Zimbabwe’s Interrupted Revolution.” Review of African Political Economy 34 (111): 103–121. doi: 10.1080/03056240701340431
  • Mujere, J. 2011. “Land, Graves and Belonging: Land Reform and the Politics of Belonging in Newly Resettled Farms in Gutu, 2000–2009.” Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (5): 1123–1144. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2011.634501
  • Mutopo, P. 2011. “Women’s Struggles to Access and Control Land and Livelihoods After Fast Track Land Reform in Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe.” Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (5): 1021–1046. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2011.635787
  • Njeru, L. K., and B. M. Gichimu. 2014. “Influence of Access to Land and Finances on Kenyan Youth Participation in Agriculture: a Review.” International Journal of Development and Economic Sustainability 2 (3): 1–8.
  • O’Brien, K. J. 1996. “Rightful Resistance.” World Politics 49 (1): 31–55. doi: 10.1353/wp.1996.0022
  • Proctor, F., and V. Lucchesi. 2012. Small-scale Farming and Youth in an era of Rapid Rural Change. London: International Institute for Environment and Development.
  • Rye, J. F. 2006. “Rural Youths’ Images of the Rural.” Journal of Rural Studies 22 (4): 409–421. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2006.01.005
  • Sakata, Y. 2016. “Peasants and Transnational Companies After the Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Tobacco Contract Farming in Mashonaland East Province.” PhD thesis, Osaka University.
  • Sargeson, S. 2016. “The Demise of China’s Peasantry as a Class.” Asia-Pacific Journal. Japan Focus 14 (13(1)): 1–23.
  • Scoones, I. 2015a. Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development. Rugby: Practical Action Publishing.
  • Scoones, I. 2015b. “Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: New Political Dynamics in the Countryside.” Review of African Political Economy 42 (144): 190–205. doi: 10.1080/03056244.2014.968118
  • Scoones, I., N. Marongwe, B. Mavedzenge, J. Mahenehene, and C. Sukume. 2011. “Zimbabwe’s Land Reform : Challenging the Myths.” Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (5): 967–993. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2011.622042
  • Scoones, I., N. Marongwe, B. Mavedzenge, F. Murimbarimba, J. Mahenehene, and C. Sukume. 2012. “Livelihoods After Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Understanding Processes of Rural Differentiation.” Journal of Agrarian Change 12 (4): 503–527. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2012.00358.x
  • Scoones, I., B. Mavedzenge, F. Murimbarimba, and C. Sukume. 2018. “Tobacco, Contract Farming, and Agrarian Change in Zimbabwe.” Journal of Agrarian Change 18 (1): 22–42. doi: 10.1111/joac.12210
  • Simura, B., and G. T. Mudimu. 2019. “Consequences of Elitist Reconciliation in Zimbabwe and South Africa: A Comparative Study.” Journal of Social Science 58 (1–3): 13–23. doi:10.31901/24566756.2019/58.1-3.2230.
  • Smith, L. T., G. H. Smith, M. Boler, M. Kempton, A. Ormond, H. C. Chueh, and R. Waetford. 2002. “‘Do you Guys Hate Aucklanders Too?’ Youth: Voicing Difference From the Rural Heartland.” Journal of Rural Studies 18 (2): 169–178. doi: 10.1016/S0743-0167(01)00037-7
  • Sunday Mail. 2016. “President Elevates Chipanga.” The Sunday Mail, September 4. Accessed February 4, 2020. https://www.sundaymail.co.zw/president-elevates-chipanga.
  • Tarrow, S. 2011. Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Utete, C. 2003. Report of the Presidential Land Review Committee on the Implementation of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme, 2000–2002. Harare: Government of Zimbabwe.
  • van der Ploeg, J. D. 2008. The New Peasantries: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization. London: Earthscan.
  • White, B. 2012. “Agriculture and the Generation Problem: Rural Youth, Employment and the Future of Farming.” IDS Bulletin 43 (6): 9–19. doi: 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2012.00375.x
  • White, B. 2015. “Generational Dynamics in Agriculture: Reflections on Rural Youth and Farming Futures.” Cahiers Agricultures 24 (6): 330–334. doi: 10.1684/agr.2015.0787
  • Whitehead, A., and D. Tsikata. 2003. “Policy Discourses on Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Return to the Customary.” Journal of Agrarian Change 3 (1/2, January/April): 67–112. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0366.00051. doi: 10.1111/1471-0366.00051
  • Zamchiya, P. 2011. “A Synopsis of Land and Agrarian Change in Chipinge District, Zimbabwe.” Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (5): 1093–1122. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2011.633703
  • ZimStat (Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency). 2012. Census 2012: National Report. Harare: ZimStat. http://www.zimstat.co.zw/sites/default/files/img/publications/Population/National_Report.pdf.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.