Neoliberalism, Regime Survival, and the Environment: Economic Reform and Agricultural Transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s

Logan, B. Ikubolajeh; Tevera, D.S.

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“…Majority of the people are unemployed and relying on informal incomes. According to (Logan and Tevera 2001 ) urban unemployment in Zimbabwe at the turn of the century ranged from 40 to 55%. North Africa’s unemployment rate sits at 22% while Sub-Saharan Africa sits at 17% (Grace et al 2017 ).…”

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The urban penalty of COVID-19 lockdowns across the globe: manifestations and lessons for Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa

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The paper contributes towards deciphering and decoding the misery of the urban poor in light of the COVID-19 scourge. The paper unpacks urban poverty in light of the corona virus. The emergence of the COVID-19 and the lack of any vaccines requires physical distancing as preventative measures to contain and reduce the spread of the virus. Governments across the world, including in Anglophone Sub Saharan Africa have implemented lockdown measures. The COVID-19 pandemic is happening within settlements where the majority of the population lives from hand to mouth. In Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa because of urbanisation and increased urban poverty, COVID-19 scourge has had a huge impact on the urban poor. The COVID-19 is likely to devastate economies and the community. For rapidly growing, densely populated and poorly planned settlements, the situation is tragic for these inhabitants. Nation states lockdown and social and physical distancing in response to the pandemic have escalated their misery. The paper adopts a critical review of literature anchored in case study analysis, document analysis and scanning from reports. Results point to redefining the way humanity has related, functioned and conceptualised realities. There is need to go beyond prevention from infection as majority of urban dwellers are in the informal sector or unemployed. For the urban poor, strategies for social distancing may not be possible or effective. People are being asked to make choices between being hungry and risk of getting infected. The paper recommends planning response at national, regional and local level bearing in mind informal settlements, high densities and forms of overcrowding which have been placed as hotspots for the virus. There is need for rebuilding societies, during and beyond COVID-19 calling for immediate disaster risk planning adaptation and transformation to promote resilience.

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“…The negative environmental effects of neoliberal reforms in many parts of sub‐Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, however, have received the majority of scholarly attention and have been well described, particularly by political ecologists (Altieri and Rojas 1999; Bryant and Bailey 1997; Logan and Tevera 2001; Peet and Watts 1996 2004; Peluso 1992; Robbins 2004; Rodrigues 2003; Schroeder 1999). All too often the outcomes of neoliberal reforms on the environment, as many of these studies show, include increased pollution of air, earth and water, and land degradation in the form of deforestation, soil exhaustion, salinization and erosion.…”

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Neoliberalism, environmentalism, and agricultural restructuring in Morocco

Davis¹

2006

Geographical Journal

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Neoliberal restructuring in Morocco has been taking place for over twenty years. Beginning with a decade of structural adjustment, from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, parts of the public sector have been privatized, state services such as health care and education reduced, tariffs lowered and exports heavily promoted. In the dryland agricultural areas, a declensionist colonial environmental narrative has been appropriated to help justify and implement the neoliberal goals of land privatization and the intensification of agricultural production in the name of environmental protection. This paper contributes to areas of growing interest for geographers through an analysis of the underexplored relationship between neoliberalism and environmentalism, in the form of questionable environmental narratives, in Morocco. Land degradation in the dryland agricultural areas of Morocco is commonly blamed on overgrazing by local pastoralists despite existing documentation that suggests instead that ploughing of marginal lands and over‐irrigation are the primary drivers of land degradation in the region. The deployment of this colonial environmental narrative of ‘native improvidence’ has facilitated an expansion of state power over collective rangelands under neoliberalism at the same time that government involvement has decreased in other sectors. The effects of neoliberalism in Morocco have been complex and thus the paper argues that current neoliberal reforms such as the Morocco–US free trade agreement need to be scrutinized carefully to prevent a further exacerbation of poverty as well as to prevent further land degradation in these areas.

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LAND REFORM, IDEOLOGY AND URBAN FOOD SECURITY: ZIMBABWE'S THIRD CHIMURENGA

Logan¹

2007

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper is used to comment on the political, legal and ideological struggles between the Zimbabwean State and an alliance comprised of the Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe (CFU) and the British Government over the country's land reform and the theoretical context in which these processes may be situated. A related and equally important objective of the study is to understand how ordinary Zimbabweans construe the impacts of the unfolding dynamics on their livelihoods. The study examines the mechanisms, which both the State and the alliance have used to manipulate land reform in pursuit of their various ideological and political objectives. Finally, it explores how these strategies are being interpreted by the urban poor in the local discourse of food insecurity. These issues are all contextualised in terms of what a former Zimbabwe cabinet minister describes as the Third Chimurenga, a reference to the country's first two agrarian/liberation struggles or chimurengas.

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Neoliberalism, Regime Survival, and the Environment: Economic Reform and Agricultural Transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

The urban penalty of COVID-19 lockdowns across the globe: manifestations and lessons for Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa

The urban penalty of COVID-19 lockdowns across the globe: manifestations and lessons for Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa

Neoliberalism, environmentalism, and agricultural restructuring in Morocco

LAND REFORM, IDEOLOGY AND URBAN FOOD SECURITY: ZIMBABWE'S THIRD CHIMURENGA

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