Two and a half decades of land reform in Zimbabwe completely
changed the country's agricultural landscape. The prominent
features of the new landscape were the small-family operated farms,
created from the commercial farming sector. While the process has
been looked at as something unique, it was another social
engineering process. Although Zimbabwe is considered a
crop-producing country, 60 percent of the country is either semi
arid or arid, and characterised by climatic uncertainty and
perennial droughts. Communities in these regions have developed a
semi-proletariat culture. Livelihoods are highly diversified and
heavily reliant on non-farm sources of income. This work analyses
processes of land reforms in the country, including the continued
commitment by the state and other actors to the small farm model.
The study concludes that, the policy reflected the motives and
visions of certain actors, which did not reflect rural reality in
the whole of the country. This work therefore advocates for a
search for a new rural development narrative that will move away
from assumption about how people live their lives, and should be
useful to practitioners, academics and policy-makers.
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