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Ndhlovu, E. Socio-Economic Characterisation of Resettled Smallholders in Rural Zimbabwe. Preprints2020, 2020060300. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0300.v1
Ndhlovu, E. Socio-Economic Characterisation of Resettled Smallholders in Rural Zimbabwe. Preprints 2020, 2020060300. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0300.v1
Ndhlovu, E. Socio-Economic Characterisation of Resettled Smallholders in Rural Zimbabwe. Preprints2020, 2020060300. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0300.v1
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Ndhlovu, E. (2020). Socio-Economic Characterisation of Resettled Smallholders in Rural Zimbabwe. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0300.v1
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Abstract
The analyses of the socio-economic consequences of the 2000s land redistribution in Zimbabwe have always been biased towards the analyses of the ‘production’ and ‘redistributive’ aspects while other equally important features such as ‘social cohesion’, ‘cooperation’, ‘protection’, and ‘accumulation’ amongst beneficiaries are neglected. Using the Sangwe farm in Chiredzi as a case study, this article departs from the conventional use of the political economy, sustainable livelihoods, human rights-based and neo-patrimonial approaches. It experiments with the transformative social policy approach positing that this approach includes the features which are ignored in dominant analyses. Using both quantitative and qualitative data in an exploratory research design, the article shows that viewed from this social policy perspective, the 2000s land reform was not a mere resounding success nor was it a complete disaster. The programme actually produced mixed results. There is therefore, the need to deploy eclectic approaches in the analysis of its consequences.
Keywords
Chiredzi; livelihoods; Sangwe; smallholders; transformative social policy; Zimbabwe
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Economics
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
