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Title: | Zimbabwe's Agricultural 'Success' and Food Security in Southern Africa |
Author: | Cliffe, L. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 43 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 4-25 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | agricultural policy farms Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248808703788 |
Abstract: | The increases in the marketed crop production by the smallholders in the Communal Areas (CAs) in Zimbabwe (the former reserves) are dramatic. But a closer look reveals that these successes are concentrated in two of the eight provinces. To ensure that the expansion of smallholder production and the spread of its benefits will continue, more measures are required. One such measure is the expansion of credit, extension and marketing services which is given emphasis in the 1986 First Five-Year National Development Plan. The pumping in of more improved varieties of more crops is also desirable. But to meet the key problems of the CAs, more sweeping transformations are required: technical adaptations of the farming system; modifications in the land use and land tenure pattern; and an expansion of the resettlement programme in order to make more land available. Bibliogr., notes. |