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lack of respect for property rights that resonated through western media that attracted the wrath of the West on Zimbabwe. Despite the fact that the UK government at that time (under Tony Blair) had reneged on commitments by his predecessors to fund Land reform in Zimbabwe, the whole western block cast a blind eye on that very important fact and chose to focus on issues that were at best results of their failure to honour their pledges to support the land reform programme. The common perceptions or misperceptions peddled by the British and the USA media and other Western broadcasting stations is that the land reform is a disastrous failure and did not achieve the desired results of poverty reduction and its accompanying benefits. Allegations of heavy political cronyism, which could be partly true, are advanced with emotion and gusto to the point of a misrepresentation of the true picture obtaining. Figures are profusely quoted detailing how the “land grab” has negatively impacted on productivity on the farms and has reduced total agricultural yields annually. On the contrary, recent studies by the United Kingdom based Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the African Institute of Agrarian Studies (AIAS) have shown that most beneficiaries of the land reform programme were ordinary people and the elites constituted a small proportion of the beneficiaries (Elich, 2011). The plummet in agricultural productivity in the years immediately succeeding the fast track land reform though, in a sense, could be blamed on the latter process, but it is however not entirely true that it was solely as a result of the land reform that agriculture suffered. Southern Africa as a region suffered from perennial droughts from 2001 to 2005 and the region is also vulnerable to climate change which can also cause uncertain rainfall patterns. The black large scale and small holder farmers proved their worth in the closing stages of the decade when favourable rain patterns were experienced. Agricultural output in 2009 grew by 15% and by 34% in 2010. Smallholder maize production jumped from 0.57 million tonnes in 2007-2008 to 1.35 million tonnes in 2009-2010. Tobacco production more than doubled from 2009 (www.ngojobsinafrica.com/). Despite huge financial and attendant challenges as a result of a critical lack of 121
credit facilities, new farmers in Zimbabwe have shown a lot of potential. Government on its own cannot do enough because of many other pressing commitments like the need to strengthen and stabilise the economy after a decade long recession through industrial development and provision of electricity and other economic prerequisites. The black African farmers, overall, have shown huge potential and with the requisite support, they can match or surpass the ability of the land's erstwhile owners. From the foregoing it is apparent that the fast track land reform programme marked the beginning of the first major step towards the empowerment of indigenous Zimbabweans. Though the process was fraught with political cronyism and could have been used for the achievement of immediate political ends by the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) that cannot take away the fact that a considerable number of Zimbabweans benefited from the programme. The table below shows the number households who officially benefited from the fast track land reform programme in the country: P ro vin ce Mi d lan d s Ma sv i ngo Ma nic ala nd Ma t. South Ma t. N o rth Ma sh. East Ma sh. W es t Ma sh. Ce ntr al M o d e l A1 M o d el A2 N o . o f hou sehold s/ b e ne ficia rie s N o . o f fa rm s H e cta re s 3 0 6 5 1 3 6 7 2 2 1 1 6 8 6 6 1 2 2 4 6 1 9 5 6 4 4 2 2 6 6 8 3 1 4 0 2 5 8 5 4 3 7 9 3 3 8 2 3 0 2 5 1 1 6 7 0 7 9 2 5 1 3 3 5 3 5 1 3 1 9 5 To tal 2 6 5 2 4 2 3 1 0 8 0 N o . o f fa r ms H e cta re s 1 06 1 8 1 9 6 6 1 70 7 5 3 3 0 0 % Ta k e up ra te s A 1 A2 A 1 A 2 1 6 1 69 2 2 6 70 2 2 9 9 0 4 8 7 7 3 9 5 7 9 1 38 7 7 5 3 3 1 1 0 19 4 6 3 9 2 4 2 6 5 1 9 1 6 9 7 8 9 2 3 2 7 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 6 5 1 4 2 5 1 9 9 9 0 1 1 9 1 1 2 0 9 4 3 19 2 5 0 9 3 0 5 68 3 6 9 9 9 5 2 41 2 3 0 8 7 4 1 67 2 2 1 9 8 8 1 4 1 6 7 02 2 7 0 52 1 4 7 56 1 2 7 1 92 Source: Utete Commission Report, Provincial profiles, 2003. p 39. 122 1 6 4 6 9 3 4 5 2 0 0 3 9 7 5 0 1 6 8 4 8 9 7 3 7 2 6 0 9 7 6 6
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Sustainable peace and development a
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Contents Introduction: The primacy
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its work on community, with special
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in Africa. The paper highlights the
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1 Women's access to microfinance an
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all household members, especially i
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family well-being are often higher
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“[b]y plugging the gap left by th
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As at 30 July 2011 the country's ba
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analysis will also be as much infor
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not about bemoaning the limited acc
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approach the MFIs, is that “it wi
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d) Indicators of the social and eco
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Illiteracy creates a situation of d
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Disabilities: Lessons from Zambia a
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Abbreviations and acronyms CBNRM Co
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(Murindagomo, 1990). Its main appro
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percentages to the gross domestic p
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some trees were not supposed to be
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formulation will ensure their total
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the commons'. The concept of commun
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esources in these government estate
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management in Botswana and Namibia:
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Introduction This article seeks to
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esearchers come to study with backg
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the land US$750.00. Mudzi laid the
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case the chief's court sought the t
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The chief's personality This influe
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process of reporting a case is too
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and implies that offenders should r
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Cases reported to Chief Chounda bet
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4 The role of Indigenous Knowledge
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enlarging the range of their choice
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this also served to promote food se
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development strategies in Africa sh
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countries seriously questioned why
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Page 119 and 120: Recommendations To work effectively
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