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Land reform in Zimbabwe

Reports & Research
May, 2013
Norway, Zimbabwe
land
land reform
There is widespread agreement on the need for land reform in Zimbabwe as a means of reducing poverty. This paper assesses the potential consequences of a land-reform scheme that draws on proposals from Zimbabwe's government in 1998 and 1999. The authors analyze the impact of the reform on resettled farm households and as a development project for which they conduct cost-benefit analysis. The analysis, which considers costs and benefits during a 15-year period, relies on a set of models of family farms that are typical of those that would benefit from land redistribution.
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A Critical Analysis of the Extent to Which the National Land Commission Addresses the Land Question in Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Africa, Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community land rights
land governance
land ownership
land policies
land reform
land rights
local communities
tenure security
The land question in Kenya has never been solved. Land is a pertinent source of livelihood, the problem has persisted and in a number of years caused chaos as people grow impatient. Over time, there have been complaints from various communities and recently, the past governments have sought to listen the ailing communities. The National Land Policy and the National Land Commission characterize efforts to remedy the continued situation bedeviling the African communities.
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A Critical Analysis of the Extent to Which the National Land Commission Addresses the Land Question in Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Africa, Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community land rights
land governance
land ownership
land policies
land reform
land rights
local communities
tenure security
The land question in Kenya has never been solved. Land is a pertinent source of livelihood, the problem has persisted and in a number of years caused chaos as people grow impatient. Over time, there have been complaints from various communities and recently, the past governments have sought to listen the ailing communities. The National Land Policy and the National Land Commission characterize efforts to remedy the continued situation bedeviling the African communities.
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Agrarian Labour Relations in Zimbabwe after Over a Decade of Land and Agrarian Reform

January, 2013
Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa
agrarian reform
land
land tenure
Walter ChambatiApril 2013
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Lineage and land reforms in Malawi: do matrilineal and patrilineal landholding systems represent a problem for land reforms in Malawi?"

January, 2013
Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Gender
lineage
land
patrilineal lineage
matrilineal lineage
land reform
This paper is about land tenure relations among the matrilineal and patrilineal cultures in Malawi. Data from the National Agricultural and Livestock Census are used to characterize marriage systems and settlement and landholding patterns for local communities. Marriage systems correspond to customary land tenure patterns of matrilineal or patrilineal land holding. The differences between the two major ways of land holding represent a particular challenge for land reforms intending to unify rules for land tenure and land devolution.
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Vegetation dynamics of Zimbabwe investigated using NOAA-AVHRR NDVI from 1982 to 2006: a principal component analysis

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Zimbabwe
land reform
The dominant modes of vegetation variability over Zimbabwe are investigated using principal component analysis (PCA) on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (NOAA-AVHRR) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) monthly imagery from 1982 to 2006. Spectral analysis is also used to determine the periodicities of the component loadings. NDVI PCA-1 corresponds to the major vegetation types of Zimbabwe, and we demonstrated that grasslands and dry savannah have the strongest relationship with mean annual precipitation.
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Considering the multiple purposes of land in Zimbabwe's economic recovery

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Zimbabwe
land reform
farmers
A preoccupation with the idea of land as a productive asset continues to dominate donor policy prescriptions imposed on poor nations of the world. The presumption is that a view of land as a productive asset implies security which then induces investment and improvements in agricultural productivity.
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Managing Local Overabundance of Elephants Through the Supply of Game Meat: The Case of SavÃ© Valley Conservancy, Zimbabwe

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Zimbabwe
land reform
Faced with an overabundant elephant population amid the difficult context of the land reform programme in Zimbabwe, SavÃ© Valley Conservancy (SVC) applied for an annual management quota of 60 animals in 2008 with the objectives of controlling an increasing population, attracting goodwill from the surrounding rural communities by providing a protein source and reducing the illegal bushmeat trade. Eighty-nine elephants were cropped in eight separate hunts during 2009 and 2010 providing 41 tonnes of meat.
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Review of Food and Agricultural Policies in the United Republic of Tanzania

Country Report

Reports & Research
July, 2013
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
agriculture
This report presents findings from the first agricultural policy review conducted by the Monitoring African Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) project in the United Republic of Tanzania. The report reviews key economic issues and the main policy decisions affecting the agricultural sector. In particular, it focuses on price incentives and disincentives faced by farmers and consumers of nine agricultural commodities which make up a significant part of agricultural production, imports, exports and diet.
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Monitoring African Food and Agricultural Policies

Building a Sustainable System for Monitoring Food and Agricultural Policies in Africa

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2013
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
agriculture
agropastoral systems
FAO is working with national partners to set up a sustainable system for monitoring the impact of food and agricultural policies for the first time in Africa. Through MAFAP, FAO has developed common indicators for monitoring key commodities and public expenditure in agriculture. This helps policy makers and donors understand if policies are having a positive impact and compare results across countries and over time.