Land Tenure, Agrarian Expansion, and Credit Demand in Zambia
Author: Michael J. Roth
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 52
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Author: Michael J. Roth
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Prosper B. Matondi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-11-08
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1780321503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread displacement and subsequent replacement of various people, agricultural-related production systems, facets and processes. The reality, however, is altogether more complex. Providing new and much-needed empirical research, this in-depth book examines how processes such as land acquisition, allocation, transitional production outcomes, social life, gender and tenure, have influenced and been influenced by the forces driving the programme. It also explores the ways in which the land reform programme has created a new agrarian structure based on small- to medium-scale farmers. In attempting to resolve the problematic issues the reforms have raised, the author argues that it is this new agrarian formation which provides the greatest scope for improving Zimbabwe's agriculture and development. Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the subject, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy.
Author: Joseph Hanlon
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781565495203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe news from Zimbabwe is usually unremittingly bleak owing to the success of the Mugabe regime’s control of information and sequestration/elimination of political opponents. Perhaps no issue has aroused such ire as the land reforms Mugabe has implemented, which, according to what journalist reports are available, have largely benefited Mugabe’s cronies. ZimbabweTakes Back it Land, however, offers a much more positive and nuanced assessment of land reform in Zimbabwe, one that counters the dominant narratives of oppression and economic stagnation. While not minimizing the depredations of the Mugabe regime, and admitting that many of Mugabe’s supporters benefited from the dictators largesse, the authors show how ordinary Zimbabweans have taken charge of their destinies in creative and unacknowledged ways through their use of land holdings obtained through Mugabe’s land reform programs. This is an inspiring story of collective agency by the exploited, and how development can take place in even the most hostile of circumstances.
Author: Sandra Evers
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9004147802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes bibliographical references.
Author: Shinichi Takeuchi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-10-10
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9811647259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been carried out by African governments since the 1990s, no systematic analysis on their meaning has so far been conducted. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. Analysing the relationship between those reforms and change, the chapters in this book reveal not only their socio-economic outcomes, such as accelerated marketisation of land, but also their political outcomes, which have often been contrasting. Countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique have utilised land reform to strengthen state control over land, but other countries, such as Ghana and Zambia, have seen the rise in power of traditional chiefs in managing the land. The comparative perspective of this book clarifies new features of African social changes, which are carefully investigated by area experts. Providing new perspectives on recent land reform, this book will have a considerable impact on scholars as well as policymakers.
Author: Per-Åke Andersson
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9789171064622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study which discusses the structural problems in Zambia and the policies of adjustment that have been tried. It also analyses the impact of various strategies with regard to external resource transfers. The results show that the scope for growth is highly dependent on the tightness of the external resource constraint, and that debt service tends to dominate the policy-making.
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 632
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael J. Roth
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel G. Maxwell
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Udry
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agricultural in Akwapim, Ghana. We show that individuals who hold powerful positions in a local political hierarchy have more secure tenure rights, and that as a consequence they invest more in land fertility and have substantially higher output. The intensity of investments on different plots cultivated by a given individual correspond to that individual's security of tenure over those specific plots, and in turn to the individual's position in the political hierarchy relevant to those specific plots. We interpret these results in the context of a simple model of the political allocation of land rights in local matrilineages.