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Introduction
This paper is intended to explain why there is an agrarian reform problem in Zimbabwe. It was over twenty years ago when Zimbabwe received its independence, and the country had a likelihood to become a success story: good soil, lots of mineral resources and a new government that spoke of modernization and reform. The Zimbabwean government learned that its agrarian reform would succeed only if its people were given access to the land. ... There is a link between poverty reduction and land reform, and issues of poverty reduction cannot be corrected without addressing the issues of land reform.
Land reform is a political process, which must be viewed and challenged both at the national and international level. ...
At the beginning of the independence, when Zimbabwe was still called Rhodesia, the inequality in Zimbabwe was very large. ... In exchange for promising existing property rights in Zimbabwe, the UK would back half of the costs to resettle. The Zimbabwe government was required to match the UK’s funding to make up the full costs of the program. ...
Because of this, the Zimbabwean government was tied into a relation of agrarian transformation. ... The restrictions forced from the Lancaster House agreement remained a regular way in Zimbabwe land reform.
The agrarian reform program was intended to start out by taking approximately half of the land owned by the whites farmers and distribute it to the poor, the black community, and the war veterans. ...
In 1998, international governments that had contributed to the financing of land reform, held a conference on improved government enforced acquisition of land. The governments involved adopted a set of principles to guide Zimbabwe through the agrarian land reform. ...
There has been increasing political and social tension in Zimbabwe in the past five years due to the land-distribution and its compensation. Growing pressures and the need for a planned land redistribution led by the National Land Identification Committee, would draft the Fast Track Land Reform Plan in June 2000, identifying tracks of land for redistribution. In July that same year, President Mugabe said that he would adopt the Fast Track Land Reform process in Zimbabwe and that over 3,000 farms would be acquired for distribution. ... The Fast Track Land Reform program consists of two different approaches. ... The Fast Track Land Reform program is still currently in the making, even though it has been said that it is inconsistent and inefficient way to allocate land. ...
The Commercial Farmer’s Union filed a suit in the Supreme Court in Zimbabwe in December 2000 stating that the Fast Track Land Reform program was not legally run.
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