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Title: | Producer Cooperative Resettlement Projects in Zimbabwe: Lessons from a Failed Agricultural Development Strategy |
Author: | Akwabi-Ameyaw, Kofi |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | World Development |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 437-456 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | settlement schemes resettlement agricultural cooperatives agricultural policy Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(96)00106-4 |
Abstract: | In its second decade of independence, the government of Zimbabwe takes the credit for the country's agricultural and rural development success. Yet, this peasantry-led success story is problematic. It hides serious policy flaws in development strategy, in particular a lack of performance of the so-called Model B producer cooperative resettlement projects. The Model Bs involve group resettlement with formal cooperative organization. This paper argues that, contrary to popular theory that the inability of collectively organized production units to perform well in Africa results from insufficient government commitment and support, the failure of the Model B cooperatives is best explained by 'too much support' from the government and other agencies - a development which, instead of achieving the desired political economy outcomes, fostered a social economy characterized by a dependency and complaining syndrome. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |