In the late 1980s the chairman of Chamatamba grazing scheme, together with the rest of his committee, eloquently articulated their vision of how land use and resource management within Chamatamba's boundaries could be ...

This study on the impact of irrigation development on Zimbabwean women focuses on two schemes, namely, Tagarika in the Midlands Province and Mushandike in Masvingo. Both schemes are located in the same ecological Zones ...

Soil erosion is an increasingly important problem in Zimbabwe. Whitlow (1988) states that 4.7% of the country or 1.8 mio hectares of land are actually eroded, the bulk (1.5 mio hectares) located in the Communal Lands. ...

This article falls into two parts; Part 1 is subdivided into the following eight sections: 1. The history of the care of lepers in Rhodesia; 2. The lay-out of the settlement; 3. The settlement administration; 4. The ...

With the advent of independence in Zimbabwe, the accent on water resource development has changed. The new Government's major thrust turned to the-rural areas and thus rural water supply development gained in importance. ...

Many perhaps most households in rural Africa have grown poorer over the last decade. The World Bank, for example, estimates that by the end of the century the number of people in poverty in Sub- Saharan Africa will have ...

The British South Africa Company was originally lured in 1890 to what became Southern Rhodesia in anticipation of discovering extensive gold deposits, but over the next two decades evidence of the region’s diverse ...

This chapter reviews a recent proposal along the lines of central place theory to build Rural Service Centres (RSC.) in Zimbabwe’ s Tribal Trust Lands. It concludes that a less concrete, more organic approach would ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of farmer organization in the mobilization and administration of agricultural finance. We show that in the communal lands of Zimbabwe, farmer -groups facilitate savings ...

This paper discusses household food security, self-sufficiency, access to natural resources as a source of food and crop-diversity. The analysis is based on a survey that was carried out in four communal areas: Svosve, ...