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dc.contributor.authorMcDermott Hughes, David
dc.coverage.spatialZimbabwe.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-23T16:42:14Z
dc.date.available2016-03-23T16:42:14Z
dc.date.issued2002-09-13
dc.identifier.citationMcDermott Hughes, D. (2002)Rezoned for business: how eco-tourism unlocked black farmland in Eastern Zimbabwe. In: McDermott Hughes, D. (ed.) New agrarian contracts in Zimbabwe: innovations in production and leisure: proceedings of workshop hosted by the Department of Economic History, University of Zimbabwe, 13th September. Harare: DEH, pp. 90-113.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/10264
dc.descriptionA symposium paper on how eco-tourism ventures are impacting negatively on the black small-holder farmers in Zimbabwe's rural areas.en
dc.description.abstractEco-tourism is undermining black smallholders' entitlement to land in Zimbabwe. In th 1890s, British administrators restrained whites from alienating the whole of the countn by demarcating native reserves. In terms of this limited aim, the policy of native resent, worked. It ensured a land base for black agriculture, particularly for women am children. In the late 1980s, however, Campfire (Communal Areas Managemen Programme for Indigenous Resources) invited the tourism industry to begin operations it the lowland reserves. These firms have claimed land, made money, and relocate smallholders. Based on economic and ecological arguments. Campfire has redefined the black entitlement as merely a claim competing with those of other 'stakeholders’. No guarantees exist for residents and cultivators. Indeed, government and NGOs are fast transforming the lowland reserves into privileged and subsidized investment zones. Held in check for a century, a new kind of settler colonialism is sweeping down from the Highlands.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe workshop and research have been sponsored by USAID, in collaboration with the Land Tenure Center (University of Wisconsin, USA) and as part of the BASIS Programme. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA provided supplementary support.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of Economic History; University of Zimbabween
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectEconomic Developmenten
dc.subjectRural Developmenten
dc.titleRezoned for business: how eco-tourism unlocked black farmland in Eastern Zimbabween
dc.typeBook chapteren
dc.typeConference paperen
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Zimbabwe's Department of Economic History.en


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