Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It borders on South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia. It has a population of 14.8 million. There are five natural regions. Almost 64% of the country falls into natural regions IV and V characterised by low rainfall, vulnerability to extreme weather events and limited livelihood opportunities.
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Land Area
38,685,000 ha
GDP/Capita
2,115.1 USD
Total population
15,993,500
Urban population
32.2 %
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Women owning land
1.6 %
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31 October 2023
Carbon credit projects may make profits for a Dubai-based firm, but experts and locals are sceptical about benefits to communities and the climate.
Growing scrutiny of carbon credit projects of the sort that will skyrocket in Zimbabwe under a deal with a UAE-based firm has found meagre benefits…
03 April 2023
Zimbabwe’s resettlement experience from 1980 to 2000
My recent blog on ‘phases of land reform’ focused on the post-2000 land reform period, but of course there was resettlement before 2000 as part of the post-Independence land reform efforts from 1980 to 2000. This too had phases, again…
27 March 2023
This tribute by Ian Scoones first appeared on the Zimbabweland blog
I first encountered Robin via his academic work and his brilliant book Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia, alongside the collection edited with Neil Parsons, Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern…
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The 21st century in Zimbabwe’s land struggles were deeply rooted in colonial laws legitimating dispossession and controlling land allocation
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20 October 2022
This blog post is part of the series What to Read.
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As a researcher compiling African country portfolios for the Land Portal, I have been struck by the widening inequalities,…
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The Land Portal Foundation, Mokoro Ltd and Transparency International co-hosted an interactive webinar on sextortion in land governance and its implications on June 25th, 2018. The webinar featured an interactive discussion among expert panelists.
Sextortion is defined as the abuse of power to…
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