One of the most common discussions amongst those living in the land reform areas today focuses on how will the next generation get land. Those who got the land during the land reform in 2000 are now getting older and … Continue reading → …
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Agriculture is driving small town growth in post-land reform Zimbabwe
Our research has shown how land reform has driven the growth in small towns, creating new economic linkages in a reconfigured economic geography of the country. No longer are the metropolitan centres and associated manufacturing industries driving growth, as these … Continue reading → …
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New businesses in small towns in Zimbabwe
What are the new businesses being established in the small towns of Zimbabwe? As the last blog has illustrated our long-term study of Mvurwi, Chatsworth and Maphisa shows a variety of changes, with different drivers associated. There are varying links … Continue reading → …
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The continuing growth of small towns in Zimbabwe
As the economic geography of Zimbabwe reconfigures following land reform, the growth of small towns continues to be an important phenomenon. No longer is economic growth concentrated in the metropolitan areas where industrial areas have declined, but it’s in small … Continue reading → …
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Twenty-five years after Zimbabwe’s land reform: understanding change
This year it’s 25 years since Zimbabwe’s controversial land reform. Ever since the year 2000 when people invaded the land and former white farmers were dispossessed of their farms, we have been tracking what has happened. We have been asking … Continue reading → …
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Rural development challenges in land reform areas of Zimbabwe
We have recently produced three new booklets summarising our work on themes relating to rural development challenges based on our work across our sites. The booklets contain lots of photos and draw from blogs published earlier on this site. They … Continue reading → …
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Zimbabweland’s festive top 20 for 2024
As has become the tradition at this time of year, this week I am sharing a list of top posts for the year. This time it’s not just ones published this year, but any post viewed by the 27.7k visitors … Continue reading → …
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A new land administration system for Zimbabwe
This blog was originally published on this site in July 2017 and was followed by another one in The Conversation as part of a series on priorities for the Mnangagwa administration. As the previous blogs on ‘new entrants’ have highlighted … Continue reading → …
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A new tenure regime for Zimbabwe’s land reform areas?
On 8th October, an unexpected cabinet announcement laid out plans for a completely new tenure regime in the land reform areas. This was to provide a secure form of tenure arrangement; not necessarily title but with an arrangement that was … Continue reading → …
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An exploding land market in Zimbabwe’s rural areas
In the period after 2017, the land market across Zimbabwe’s land reform areas has exploded. Continuing on from the periods discussed in the last blog, this post explores what has happened across our study sites and the consequences for the … Continue reading → …
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