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   Zimbabwe urgently needs a new land administration system

   Reports & Research

   January, 2018

   Zimbabwe, Africa

   land

   farmers

   land administration

   agrarian structure

   scale

   land reform

   leases

   land ownership

   Zimbabwe today has an agrarian structure made up of small, medium and large farms, all under different forms of land ownership. A landscape once dominated by 4,500 large-scale commercial farmers is now populated by about 145,000 smallholder households, occupying 4.1 million hectares, and around 23,000 medium-scale farmers on 3.5 million hectares. Knowing exactly who has land and where is difficult. Illegal multiple allocations combine with unclear boundary demarcations and an incomplete recording system.