Zimbabweland in 2013

Over the Xmas and New Year break, why not catch up with the blogs you missed (as I am taking a break and not writing any new ones until the new year….!)? Below is a listing of the 20 most viewed blogs that were published this year. They reflect the tumultuous political events of constitution making and elections, but also the on-going debates about the way forward for agriculture, land and rural development.

You can also read many of them, along with some new essays and many others, both older and recent, in the new 224 page book, Debating Zimbabwe’s Land Reform. As mentioned last week, it’s now out and is available at a very reasonable price through Amazon.

The top 20 for this year is below (of course biased by the fact that those posted in January have had rather longer to accumulate views). Happy reading! Do please add constructive comments, as it’s always good to get reactions on the blog, and don’t forget to sign up for an alert each time a blog is posted.

1	Difficult lessons from Zimbabwe that some South Africans just don’t want to hear
2	Food crisis in Zimbabwe: 2.2 million at risk. But where do the figures come from, and what do they mean?
3	Policies for land, agriculture and rural development: some suggestions for Zimbabwe
4	Guest Blog: Land Reform in Zimbabwe Revisited: Reflections from a book launch in London
5	The new farm workers: Changing agrarian labour dynamics following land reform in Zimbabwe
6	What role for large-scale commercial agriculture in post-land reform Zimbabwe: Africa’s experience of alternative   models
7	Agrarian change, rural poverty and land reform: South Africa’s experience
8	Class, politics and land reform in Zimbabwe
9	Beyond White Settler Capitalism: Zimbabwe’s Agrarian Reform
10	The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. Reflections on white farming in Zimbabwe
11	Growth in jeopardy? Reflections on Zimbabwe’s 2013 budget statement
12	Tractors, power and development. Mechanising Zimbabwean agriculture
13	Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector goes from ‘bread basket to basket case’? Or is it (again) a bit more complicated?
14	Transforming Zimbabwe’s agrarian economy: why smallholder farming is important
15	The sweet smell of success: the revival of Zimbabwe’s sugar industry
16	When is research ‘really authoritative’? Challenges of evidence, authorship and positionality in research on Zimbabwe’s land reform
17	Zimbabwe’s elections 2013: more confusion, more uncertainty
18	The MDC-T’s Agenda for Real Transformation (ART): why the land and agriculture sections need more thought
19	Zimbabwe has a new Constitution, but disputes over the land provisions continue
20	Old powers and new powers: agriculture and investment in Africa This post was written by Ian Scoones and originally appeared on Zimbabweland