Land Tenure Rights and Poverty Reduction in Mafela Resettlement Community (Matobo District, Zimbabwe)

• Main Author: Ncube, Richmond
• Other Authors: Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies
• Language: en
• Published: University of the Western Cape 2013
• Subjects: Zimbabwe; Mafela resettlement; Tenure rights; Private rights; Communal/Collective rights; Rights; Governance; Poverty; Gender; Power; Livelihoods
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1745

In this research, I present critical facts about Land Tenure Systems and Poverty Reduction processes in Mafela Resettlement community. I focus mainly on the Post-Fast Track Land Reform (2004-2011) period and the interactive processes in this new resettlement area. The research - premised on the rights approach - sought to explore land tenure rights systems and poverty reduction mechanisms seen by the Mafela community to be improving their livelihoods; it also sought to find out if there is evidence linking tenure rights to poverty reduction and how land tenure rights governance systems affect their livelihoods. Suffice to say in both the animal kingdom and human world, territorial space and integrity, its demarcation as well as how resources are used within the space, given the area - calls for a - defined system of rights by the residents themselves. Whilst it is true that there is no one story about Zimbabwe's land reform (Scoones et al 2011), the contribution of this research towards insights emanating from the newly resettled farmers adds another invaluable contribution in the realm of rural development issues. === Magister Philosophiae (Land and Agrarian Studies) - MPhil(LAS)