Building landscapes: village development in Zimbabwe

✍ Scribed by S. Moyo

• Book ID: 102449572
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 71 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1085-3278
• DOI: 10.1002/ldr.434

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This paper argues that there is a need to fill a specific empirical and conceptual gap in land policy analysis in Zimbabwe. This ‘gap’ has arisen from the predominantly macro level economic theoretical perspectives on the land question, and from an inadequate conceptualization of the local level character of the land debate in Zimbabwe. The purpose of this paper is to stress the importance of focusing on the land question from the standpoint of the peasant householders in the Communal Areas (CAs). These issues are raised through the examination of land use and land‐use history in Mhezi Ward in Makoni District, Zimbabwe. This paper does not comment on the recent political moves to redistribute 1471 Large Scale Commercial Farms (LSCF) as this process must be discussed in another debate. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.