Zimbabwe

Backgrounders and Monitoring papers on land reform in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe Backgrounder in PDF (19 pages)

Backgrounder-Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
Tom Lebert, National Land Committee
January 21, 2003 - Over the past two years or so, land has stormed onto the Southern African regional agenda, thanks largely to developments in Zimbabwean land reform. The media in particular has latched onto these developments, overwhelmingly with a negative sentiment. This negativity has largely clouded the real situation, and obscured important and valid grievances - namely the unresolved land issue which underpins much of the structural inequality characteristic of the country.