After Radical Land Reform: Restructuring agricultural cooperatives in Zimbabwe and Japan Contributor(s): Muchetu, Rangarirai Gavin (Author) |
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ISBN: 9956551910 ISBN-13: 9789956551910 Publisher: Langaa RPCID
Binding Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 |
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BISAC Categories: - Law | Land Use - Social Science | Agriculture & Food - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.15 lbs) 392 pages |
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Publisher Description: Comparing the Zimbabwean and Japanese agrarian experience may sound impossible. Still, the similarities in the socio-economic and political realities of their respective radical land reforms and grain policies provide scope for such an endeavour. This book examines the aftermath of Japan's radical land reform and the development of her cooperatives. It then compares it to the nature and character of the Zimbabwe post-land reform agrarian structure. The author collected and analysed data from three villages in Japan, and three in Zimbabwe to understand different types of cooperatives, their growths, and constraints. Three distinct types of cooperatives emerged from Japan's 70-year experience in cooperative development. One of these three was identified as providing more relevant lessons necessary for restructuring the British-Indian type of cooperatives currently obtaining in Zimbabwe. The central argument is that the radical Fast-Track Land Reform Programme provided a rare platform (as it did in Japan) to develop robust, genuine grassroots cooperatives from below. Based on a global political economy reading of agricultural production, the book sieves the pros and cons of the Japanese agricultural cooperative system with knowledge systems from the Zimbabwe movement to advance a new agricultural cooperative development framework for Zimbabwe and other post-colonial states. |
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