The Political Economy of Agricultural Resettlement and Rural Development in Zimbabwe: The Performance of Family Farms and Producer Cooperatives
| Autor: | Kofi Akwabi-Ameyaw |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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| Zdroj: | Human Organization. 49:320-338 |
| ISSN: | 1938-3525 0018-7259 |
| DOI: | 10.17730/humo.49.4.85524hh0082r3jw1 |
| Popis: | Zimbabwe's rural and agricultural development reflects the development policy contradictions of the African continent. A major aspect of the country's development program involves the large-scale resettlement of poor and landless farm households under various planning models. Currently, the two most important of these models are the Model A individual-family managed farms and the Model B cooperatively organized farms. This article evaluates aspects of the implementation and performance of these so-called Model A and B schemes. Evidence is presented for a comparative case study of two adjacent and contrasting schemes, namely, Mufurudzi Model A and Simba Youth Model B schemes both established in 1980 in the Mashonaland Central Province. Planning projections for these resettlement schemes indicate optimistic economic returns, especially after three to five years of inception. However, while the Model As are generally doing very well the Model Bs are woefully underperforming. For instance, the greater majorit... |
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