The government must not dictate’: rural‐urban migrants’ perceptions of Zimbabwe's land resettlement programme
Since its inception in 1980 Zimbabwe's land resettlement programme has been marked by very varied performance and keen debate. There have been high hopes, deep disappointment, false starts (and stops), policy swings and controversy. In the 1990s analyses of the programme by both supporters and critics of land reform have generally been negative. Yet there is evidence that resettled people themselves have made real welfare and income gains. Strong support for the programme was also expressed by a large sample of rural‐urban migrants in Harare in 1994. Their views, reported in this article, showed an appreciation of most aspects of the academic and policy debates, but clearly also tended towards the perception that redistribution of land in Zimbabwe is a moral issue. Government insistence on commercially‐oriented production on resettlement schemes was perceived as unwarranted interference.
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1997
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Authors: | Potts, Deborah ; Mutambirwa, Chris |
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Review of African Political Economy. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0305-6244. - Vol. 24.1997, 74, p. 549-566
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