Tag: Zimbabwe

Movimentos agrários e a luta pela transformação agroalimentar na África Austral

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CASAS’ member Boaventura Monjane has published this article in Tensões Mundiais in Portuguese. Abstract: This article examines how agrarian movements in Southern Africa – particularly in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa – confront the corporate model of food production and trade. It highlights La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa and the Rural Women’s Assembly…

‘Capital grabs back’: towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus

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CASAS’ members Enrique Castañón Ballivián, George Tonderai Mudimu & Mnqobi Ngubane have published with Melanie Sommerville in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Capital is grabbing back land allocated through diverse national land reform and land restitution programmes globally. This article critically analyses this trend, which has so far received insufficient attention from land grab…

‘This settlement is just a launch pad to move to better city spaces’: radical sense of place and migration aspirations among youth migrants in the diaspora

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CASAS’ member, Johannes Bhanye, has published an article with Abraham Matamanda & Ruvimbo Shayamunda in Comparative Migration Studies journal. Abstract: This ethnographic study investigates the perceptions of place and migration aspirations among young migrants within the Malawian diaspora in Lydiate, an informal settlement in Zimbabwe. Unlike traditional conceptions of diaspora that emphasize long-term settlement and…

‘I Was Here Before You’: Politics of Belonging in A1 Villagised Farms of Zimbabwe

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CASAS’ member, Malvern Marewo, has published an article with Senzeni Ncube in the Journal of Asian and African Studies. Abstract: The Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) of 2000 redistributed land previously owned by White farmers to the majority Black Zimbabweans. In understanding the dynamics of land ownership, various studies have been conducted, and these…

Informal land leasing and social relations: Insights from Zimbabwe’s small scale farms

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Malvern Kudakwashe Marewo, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Geojournal. Abstract: This article examines the role of social relations in enabling informal land leasing in Zimbabwe’s small scale (A1 villagised) settlements after the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP). After Fast Track Land Reform (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe, although some studies have explored informal land…