Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe : Beyond White-Settler Capitalism

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme implemented during the 2000s in Zimbabwe represents the only instance of radical redistributive land reforms since the end of the Cold War. It reversed the racially-skewed agrarian structure and discriminatory land tenures inherited from colonial rule. The land reform also radicalised the state towards a nationalist, introverted accumulation strategy, against a broad array of unilateral Western sanctions. Indeed, Zimbabweís land reform, in its social and political dynamics, must be compared to the leading land reforms of the twentieth century, which include