Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform

Prosper B. Matondi is the executive director of the Ruzivo Trust, a not-for-profit organization based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He has more than 18 years of experience researching on land, natural resources management, environmental policy and planning in Zimbabwe, within the southern African region and internationally. He is the co-editor, along with Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene, of Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa (Zed 2011).

• Preface1. Understanding Fast Track Land Reforms in Zimbabwe2. Land occupations as the trigger for compulsory land acquisition3. Interrogating land allocation4. Juggling land ownership rights in uncertain times5. Complexities in understanding agricultural production outcomes6. Access to services and farm-level investments on Fast Track Farms7. A revolution without change in women's land rights8. Social organisation and reconstruction of communities on Fast Track FarmsConclusion: from a 'crisis' to a 'prosperous' future?

We still do not know fully what happened after paramilitary groups seized Zimbabwe's white-owned farms and transferred them to others. Read this book for its analysis of those varied outcomes. Tabulating his findings with admirable clarity, Matondi helps fill a wide gap in the empirical and applied scholarship of rural Zimbabwe.