Local Responses to Involuntary Relocation and Development in the Zambian portion of the Middle Zambezi Valley

Thayer Scudder and Jonathan Habarad

Chapter 12 in Migrants in Agricultural Development, 1991, pp 178-205 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the late 1950s, 57 000 people were involuntarily moved within the Middle Zambezi Valley in anticipation of their fields and villages being flooded by waters rising behind the recently completed Kariba Dam. Development refugees, they were also rural to rural migrants, with the majority shifted to sites within 20 kilometres of their former homes. Prior to inundation the people lived in permanent villages along the Zambezi and the lower reaches of its major tributaries. Following removal, most were shifted inland along those same tributaries, while 6000 people were moved to the Lusitu region below the dam (see Map 12.1), with a still smaller number resettled on the adjacent plateau.

Keywords: Agricultural Development; Economic Downturn; Wage Labour; District Council; Forced Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11830-4_12

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