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A review of the land reform: Gender disaggregation
National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations in Zimbabwe (NANGO)
June 30, 2012

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Introduction

This paper focuses civil society perspectives on gender and land reform process, with a special analysis of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme. It interrogates the extent to which the government has managed to bring about equality and equity in land distribution process. Major findings and key recommendations are tabulated to inform policy makers and enrich parliamentary debates on the investigated theme.

Background

In an attempt to redress the land inequalities inherited from the colonial era, the government embarked on the land reform programme which started after independence in 1980. However, in 2000 a new form of land reform came into being through the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP), pioneered by the war veterans. According to Moyo et al,(2009:1), the Fast Track Land Reform Programme transformed the agrarian structure from a bi-modal structure in which 4, 500 farmers (approximately 5,000 farm units) held over 11 million hectares mostly on the basis of export-focused commercial agriculture, alongside one million communal area households on 16.4 million hectares mostly in drier regions of the country. The FTLRP implemented by the Government of Zimbabwe redistributed about 80% of the former large scale commercial farms (LSCF) to a broad base of beneficiaries including peasants 'supposedly' from across the political divide, as well as politicians and corporate (ibid).

Objectives of the study

• To investigate key factors that led to the land reform process in Zimbabwe
• To analyze the extent to which the land reform processes benefited both men and women in Zimbabwe.
• Analyze factors that hindered women to benefiting from the land reform program
• To proffer recommendations on how the gaps could be addressed

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