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Why livestock can be good for the environment
In places like Zimbabwe livestock production is integral to mixed farming systems and in the drier areas.
By Ian Scoones
Jan. 24, 2023
How some tractors, dead lions met in Harare: A new geopolitics in Africa?
In exchange, Zimbabwe received US$66m worth of agricultural equipment for the agricultural mechanisation programme, notably tractors made at the famous former Soviet plant in Belarus.
By Ian Scoones
Feb. 12, 2023
Feature: Phases of Zim’s land reform: A shifting political economy
The invasion and establishment phase emerged of course in part as a consequence of the constitutional referendum of 2000.
By Ian Scoones
Mar. 21, 2023
Robin Palmer: The original land campaigner and scholar activist
Robin travelled to what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1960 to pursue an undergraduate degree at University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
By Ian Scoones
Mar. 31, 2023
Zim’s land resettlement experience
With the end of the strictures imposed by Lancaster House Agreement in 1990, it was possible for the state to acquire land and the Land Acquisition Act was passed in 1992.
By Ian Scoones
Apr. 6, 2023
The ‘hidden middle’: the transformation of agri-food systems in Africa
Tom Reardon, lead author of the AGRA and IFAD reports that have highlighted this phenomenon so effectively, argued at a launch event
By Ian Scoones
Apr. 18, 2023
Maize markets in Zim: A complex web of hidden activity
Maize is central to a complex web of small-scale businesses supporting production, transport, processing and marketing.
By Ian Scoones
Apr. 30, 2023
Rethinking African developement
Facing up to uncertainty is at the heart of all these challenges
By Ian Scoones
Jun. 9, 2023
