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Title: | Smallholder Maize Production and Sales in Zimbabwe: Some Distributional Aspects |
Author: | Stanning, Jayne |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | Food Policy |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | August |
Pages: | 260-267 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | small farms maize Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(89)90044-4 |
Abstract: | This article is concerned with the distributional characteristics of the recent shift in maize production in Zimbabwe towards smallholder producers. It examines the concentration and spread of maize transactions and income flows amongst farmers in one of Zimbabwe's most productive smallholder areas, Hurungwe communal land, in Mashonaland West, in the period June 1985-May 1986. Analysis shows that even within an area noted for its buoyant peasant agriculture there is marked inequality in the distribution of both maize surplus and cash incomes. Differences between households broadly reflect the distribution of productive assets. The poorest households have benefited least from Zimbabwe's broadly focused development strategy. There is therefore a need to identify programmes and policies in both agriculture and other sectors which will enable a wider spectrum of smallholders to share the benefits of development. Notes, ref. |