Now available in paperback. In February 2000, the author's farm in Zimbabwe was repossessed by Robert Mugabe's war veterans. This is her account of what occurred during Zimbabwe's disorderly and bloody land redistribution process. Sources, xiv, 243pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

2002 2001 1868421406 Paperback

A harrowing sequel to African Tears, charting some of the gross violations of human rights and corruption of the electoral process during Mugabe's chaotic land seizures between February 2000 and May 2002. Index, bib, 218pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

2002 1868421392 Paperback

Describes a project among small scale farmers in the drought-prone and arid communal lands of Zimbabwe which helped the farmers identify their problems and choose their own solutions to them. The aim of the project was participatory technology development: to extend the range of soil-and-water conserving farming techniques available, and to help local farmers evaluate and disseminate these and their own traditional techniques so as to improve the returns from their land. Figs, tables, b/w photos, boxes, app, bib, 150pp, UK. ITDG PUBLISHING.

Using primary data from official Zimbabwe government sources, The IMF, The World Bank and Zimbabwe’s Commercial Farmers Union, this book explains the mechanics of the collapse of one institution after another, including the central bank, foreign exchange markets, and the health and education sectors. It also dispels the widely held belief that a drought in 2001 led to collapsed agricultural yields, using data from Zimbabwe’s meteorological authorities to make the case. Lastly, the book uses the case study of Nicaragua, which underwent a similar collapse in the late 1980s, as a blueprint for how a country can once again prosper after paying attention to the importance of property rights. BNS, 176pp, USA. EDWIN MELLEN PRESS.

Working Paper analyses the experience of a farmers' jury in Zimbabwe. Representatives of poor farmers mapped out their vision for the future of agriculture in their country after hearing from policy makers and technical experts of every shade of opinion. 64pp, UK. ITDG PUBLISHING.

African people were written out of the landscape in many parts of colonial Zimbabwe. Conservation and development programmes in Zimbabwe's south-east 'lowveld' have been rooted in the conceptualisation of this landscape as wilderness. The uses, perceptions and experiences of this landscape by African people have been ignored in policies derived from the 'wilderness vision'. Land reform has failed to take account of the way the landscape is bound up with identity through its embodiment of ancient memories. The turbulent dynamics around farm invasions may open space for previously silenced constructions of landscape to influence policy. Index, bib, 246pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Now in paperback. Land reform has defined Zimbabwe's nationalist and post-colonial ambitions and this book assesses Zimbabwe's failures in incorporating issues of gender into the broader project of land redistribution. Based on three years of fieldwork in the late 1990s and a follow-up visit in 2002, it details gender relations and struggles in the Sengezi resettlement area in east central Zimbabwe. Using Sengezi as a case study, Goebel situates gender within the larger issues of race, class, and international political economy while examining the social forces and effects of the resettlement process, which include state policy and legislation, customary norms and practices, local institutions, and ideologies and cosmologies. Index, 172pp, CANADA. MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS.

This book is the result of research conducted under the auspices of the Zimbabwe programme on women's studies, extension, sociology and irrigation, an inter-university exchange programme between the University of Zimbabwe and Wageningen Agricultural University in Holland. One of the objectives of the project was to achieve a critical understanding of intervention and practices in rural areas. Includes a brief history of agricultural extension in Zimbabwe and looks at the theory and practice of agricultural extension in the smallholder sector. 351pp, ZIMBABWE. UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE PUBLICATIONS. 0908307527

Wildlife conservation policy is often discussed within the broader debates of sustainable development. The case study of Zimbabwe illustrates how the politically controversial policy agenda of wildlife utilization is part of the wider realm of global environmental politics. Notes, bib, index, xi, 209pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Examines the role of economic liberalisation in the reconstruction of the political economy of Zimbabwe's land question. Since the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) was introduced in 1990, the universe of policies surrounding and influencing the nature and scale of land reform has been changing in tandem with changing and varied supply responses to ESAP-related policy incentives within Zimbabwe's bi-modal agrarian structure. These responses are manifested in emerging new land use patterns and production processes oriented towards global markets. 226 pp. SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE, 9171064575

A study of private wildlife conservation and community in Zimbabwe. This case study is based on ethnographic fieldwork done in 1998 and focuses on the joint venture between a private wildlife conservation initiative, the Save Valley Conservancy and its surrounding communities in terms of reciprocal exchange and the land question. The author looks at the roots of the land question and the route that Mugabe has taken since his words of reconciliation in 1980. 242pp, THE NETHERLANDS. EJ BRILL, 9004136975

A study of the efforts of the Zimbabwean government to enforce land reforms on African farmers in northern Zimbabwe. The author describes how this compounded the problem of land scarcity for black small scale farmers and led to the invasions of white owned farms. Comparing the post independence land reforms and those attempted by the Rhodesian regime, Spierenburg describes internal conflicts over land within the communities in Dande as well as the more concerted forms of resistance of these communities against the state. THE NETHERLANDS. EJ BRILL.

Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, re-igniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these contentious politics by analysing fierce disputes over territory, sovereignty, and subjection in the country's eastern highlands. Illuminates the complex interconnections between local practices of power and the wider forces of colonial rule, nationalist politics, and global discourses of development. Index, bib, notes, b/w photos, 399pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Engages with current debates on land and politics in Africa and provides a much needed historical narrative of the Zimbabwean case. Land invasions were touted by the ZANU (PF) government as the end of colonialism; others saw them as mere electioneering, the last gasp of a desperate government. This poorly understood crisis has deep roots in the settler period when the government of Rhodesia divided the land along racial lines leaving the black population in poor and overcrowded reserves, setting the stage for the current crisis. Index, bib, maps, 230pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Zvishavane, in southern Zimbabwe, is an arid yet starkly beautiful terrain where small-scale farmers struggle with fragile soils and erratic rainfall for often fruitless returns. It was here that Zephaniah Phiri had the wisdom, vision and strength of character to transform a resource-starved subsistence plot into a fertile smallholding. This book is Mr Phiri's story. It is more than a simple environmental story; it reveals the family survival strategies of a man with immense courage, wisdom, and generosity. 61pp, illus, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.