Zimbabwe's Fast-Track Land Reform

Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform provides new, in-depth and much-needed empirical research on Zimbabwe's highly contested land reform programme. It examines how processes such as land acquisition, allocation, transitional production outcomes, social life, gender and tenure have influenced and been influenced by the forces driving the programme. It also explores the ways in which the land reform has created a new agrarian structure based on small- to medium-scale farmers. In attempting to resolve the problematic issues the reforms have raised, the author argues that it is this new agrarian formation which provides the greatest scope for improving Zimbabwe's agriculture and development.

Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy.