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Shifting Gender Dimensions and Rural Livelihoods after Zimbabwe’s Fast-Track Land Reform Programme

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  • Patience Mutopo

    (Patience Mutopo is a Post-Doctoral Researcher, Cologne African Studies Centre, University of Cologne, Germany and the Rural Development Sociology Group, University of Wageningen, the Netherlands. Email: pmutopo@ymail.com)

  • Jeanette Manjengwa

    (Jeanette Manjengwa is Deputy Director, Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe. Email: jmanjengwa@ies.uz.ac.zw)

  • Manase Chiweshe

    (Manase Chiweshe is Post-Doctoral Researcher, Sociology Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Email: manasekudzai@gmail.com)

Abstract

Zimbabwe’s Agrarian livelihoods have drastically changed within the last decade due to the Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLPR) that saw massive transfer of land from white commercial farmers to black farmers. The agricultural revolution led to re-peasantization processes coming back on the national agenda, with women participating in the process of land acquisition and investing in farming activities. In this article, we discuss the role that women have been playing in the new agricultural sphere in Zimbabwe, in light of land acquisition modes, the crops that are grown and the different entrepreneurial activities undertaken by women. The article demonstrates how re-peasantization processes have led to the recognition of land as a central resource shaping rural livelihoods, especially for women, in terms of contributing to the national and household food baskets.

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  • Patience Mutopo & Jeanette Manjengwa & Manase Chiweshe, 2014. "Shifting Gender Dimensions and Rural Livelihoods after Zimbabwe’s Fast-Track Land Reform Programme," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 3(1), pages 45-61, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:agspub:v:3:y:2014:i:1:p:45-61
    DOI: 10.1177/2277976014530225
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