‘The acts and omissions of the police need to be arrested as a matter of urgency’
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Zimbabweans abroad: Uber drivers in Cape Town
I am just back to Harare from a couple of months in Cape Town where Tapiwa Chatikobo and I have been writing up our project, Zimbabwe’s land reform after 25 years, getting to grips with overwhelming mountains of data. More … Continue reading → …
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Charms, potions and spirits involved in the management of livestock in Zimbabwe
During my long-term fieldwork in Matobo district there was constant discussion of supernatural beliefs concerning livestock. I have always been dismissive of these beliefs, thinking that they were just remnants of the past. How wrong I was! Supernatural beliefs about … Continue reading → …
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ICARRD+20 kicks off this week: can the challenge of redistributive land reform be addressed?
The International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD +20) starts this week in Cartagena in Colombia, hosted by the Colombian government and technically supported by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. The conference comes 20 years after the … Continue reading → …
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Livestock, climate change and land reform in southern Africa
How do livestock producers respond to climate change in land reform areas in southern Africa? A recent report from the Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa offers fascinating … Continue reading → …
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Rethinking with uncertainty: two new articles
Two open access articles have just come out that take the theme of ‘uncertainty’ and explore how it encourages some fundamental rethinking. First, ‘development’ as conventionally understood and, second, ‘critical agrarian studies’. They are published as part of two series, … Continue reading → …
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Pastoralists as inspiration in an age of uncertainty
You only have to look at the news each day to realise that we are living in an age of uncertainty. Whether it’s imposing tariffs, interfering in sovereign countries or threatening to annex areas to get access to critical minerals, … Continue reading → …
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Changes in livelihood success: comparing communal areas and smallholder land reform areas in Zimbabwe
As discussed in the previous blog, we carried out repeat ‘success rankings’ in three of our communal area sites, which are all nearby our A1 smallholder land reform sites, where we have undertaken research over the past years. By matching … Continue reading → …
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Livelihood opportunities in Zimbabwe’s communal areas: too poor to succeed?
As part of our analysis of the story of land reform over 25 years, we have also been looking at communal areas that are nearby our A1 sites. These are where many people who invaded the farms and were granted … Continue reading → …
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The future of ‘development’ – and IDS@60
This year is the 60th anniversary of the Institute of Development Studies based at the University of Sussex. IDS has been an independent institute linked to the university since June 1966, so the birthday party is not due quite yet. … Continue reading → …
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