Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths and realities
本书通过研究津巴布韦马辛戈省的土地改革，挑战了四个常见误解，探讨了土地获取对不同人群生计的影响，适合关注土地政策与农村发展的读者。
It required the eloquence and boldness of Ian Scoones et al. to produce this impressive empirical study on the impact of Zimbabwe's controversial Fast Track Land Programme. The book addresses one province, Masvingo, a relatively dry natural farming region without uniform agricultural potential and supposedly of limited interest to political elites. The book explores ‘what happened to different people's livelihoods once they acquired the land’ (p. 6), through challenging four ‘myths’: (1) that the reform has been a total failure; (2) it has largely benefited political cronies; (3) there is no investment in the resettlement areas; and (4) that the rural economy has collapsed and agriculture is in complete ruins creating chronic food insecurity (p. 8). While the controversial land invasions were not a complete economic disaster, the authors (who comprise an agricultural ecologist, an urban and rural planner, an agricultural economist, an agricultural extension officer who also doubles as a resettlement farmer, an A2 sugar cane farmer and a communal farmer who is also a beneficiary of a resettlement plot) are careful not to characterize it as a success, either.