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Why land invasions will happen here too .....
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2000)
Will Zimbabwean-style land invasions take place in South Africa at some point in the future? In my view – yes, it is likely that they will, despite the great differences between the political economies of the two countries. ...
Politics, centralisation and service delivery in urban Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
The politics of urban control has revolved around centralisation since independence in 1980. However, such politics became more pronounced after 2000 owing to the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) ...
Devolution and democratisation of natural resource management in southern Africa: A comparative analysis of CBNRM policy processes in Botswana and Zimbabwe
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)
This paper examines the policy processes of devolution and democratisation of natural resource management as they relate to community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) outcomes in Botswana and Zimbabwe. Devolution ...
Exclusion through defined membership in people-centered natural resources management: Who defines?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)
This paper investigates how community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has determined membership to rights over forestry and wildlife resources in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The legal frameworks in these ...
Multi-donor trust funds and fragile states: assessing the aid effectiveness of the Zimbabwe multi-donor trust fund
(Wiley, 2016)
It is widely acknowledged that multi-donor trust funds (MDTFs) contribute to aid effectiveness. This paper challenges this assertion through assessing the aid effectiveness of the Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund. The paper ...
Zimbabwe's new land crisis: Large-scale land investments at Chisumbanje
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Zimbabwe’s investments in agriculture, after a
contested Fast Track Land Reform Programme
(FTLRP) underpinned by often violent land
occupations (these were largely contained by
the state by 2005), have triggered a ...
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Zimbabwe country report
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has undergone several phases of land redistribution,
generally to communal and working people. The latest phase was the Fast-Track Land Reform
Programme (FTLRP), which began in 2000 ...
Large-scale land deals in Southern Africa voices of the people
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
This book presents case studies of large-scale land deals in Southern Africa. It aims to provide an accessible and vivid window into the lived realities and responses of rural people who are affected by such deals. For ...
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Zimbabwe
(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 ...
Towards low‐cost community networks in rural communities: The impact of context using the case study of Beitbridge, Zimbabwe
(Wiley, 2018)
Most rural communities in developing countries such as Zimbabwe are underserved and/or unserved with regard to telecommunication connectivity. Governments in developing countries are also under‐resourced to provide adequate ...