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    • From ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ to a people-driven land reform 

      Lahiff, Edward (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
      The concept of ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ has dominated the discourse on land reform in South Africa since 1994. Now, following the national Land Summit of July 2005, it appears that government is willing to abandon ...
    • Gender implications of decentralised land reform: The case of Zimbabwe 

      Manjengwa, Jeanette; Mazhawidza, Phides (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
      A bolder policy approach and more vigorous implementation are needed to support women’s empowerment, transfer of land rights to women, and to ensure their productive utilisation of land. The land reform programme focussed ...
    • Gender implications of decentralised land reform: The case of Zimbabwe 

      Manjengwa, Jeanette; Mazhawidza, Phides (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2009-12)
      A bolder policy approach and more vigorous implementation are needed to support women’s empowerment, transfer of land rights to women, and to ensure their productive utilisation of land. The land reform programme focussed ...
    • The membership problem in people-centred approaches to natural resource management in Southern Africa 

      Matose, Frank; Mandondo, Alois; Mosimane, Alfons; Aribeb, Karl; Chikozho, Claudious; Jones, Mike (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
      Who should qualify to be a member of a natural resource management (NRM) programme in Southern Africa with the attendant benefits and responsibilities? In Zimbabwe, membership of such programmes could be described as ...
    • Outcomes of community engagement in community-based natural resource management programmes 

      Madzudzo, Elias; HaBarad, Jonathan; Matose, Frank (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
      Although the last century has witnessed exciting strategies in resource management in the form of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), these developments are more incremental than revolutionary. CBNRM falls ...
    • Progressing community-based natural resource management in Zimbabwe 

      Harrison, EP; Dzigirai, V; Gandiwa, E; Nzuma, T; Masivele, B; Ndlovu, HT (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
      Zimbabwe is ushering in a new era of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). It is moving away from place-based wildlife management initiatives to more internationally linked forestry carbon projects which ...
    • Securing Land Tenure for Women and Men Living on Customary Land in Zimbabwe 

      Zamchiya, Phillan; Madhuku, Claris (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-02)
      This policy brief reports on findings from a study investigating the impact of the formalisation of customary land on tenure relations and livelihoods for women and men living in rural Zimbabwe. The research was conducted ...
    • Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Zimbabwe 

      Sukume, Chrispen; Mavedzenge, Blasio; Murimbarima, Felix (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
      Growth in the agricultural sector has long been assumed to automatically benefit the rural non-farm sector, chiefly through various production or consumption expenditure ‘linkages’ including local expenditure by farmers ...
    • Zimbabwe’s contested large-scale land-based investment: The chisumbanje ethanol project 

      Matondi, Prosper B; Nhlizivo, Clemence T. (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
      Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform from 2000 onward yielded significant land transfers, but led the country to face debilitating production challenges and lack of investment in agriculture. Since then, Zimbabwe has not ...