Who will make the ‘best’ use of Africa’s land? Lessons from Zimbabwe
Jeanette Manjengwa,
Joseph Hanlon and
Teresa Smart
Third World Quarterly, 2014, vol. 35, issue 6, 980-995
Abstract:
Conflict over African land – between smallholders and large industrial farmers and between domestic farmers and global agribusinesses – raises key questions about who will make the best use of African land and which farmers do most to decrease poverty and produce more food, industrial inputs and exports. Zimbabwe has already gone through two major changes in land occupation, and thus provides an important test of what is the ‘best’ use of the land. Three measures of ‘best’ use have been cited in Zimbabwe: reward for military victory, poverty reduction and agricultural production. Initial evidence indicates that commercial smallholder production is a better use of the land than larger, more mechanised farming.
Date: 2014
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