After Radical Land Reform

Gavin Muchetu

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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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• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 11 mars 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789956551583
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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After Radical Land Reforms Restructuring agricultural cooperatives in Zimbabwe and Japan

Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu

After Radical Land Reforms Restructuring agricultural cooperatives in Zimbabwe and Japan Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu L a ng a a R esea rch & P u blishing CIG Mankon, Bamenda

Publisher: LangaaRPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon [e-mail] www.langaa-rpcig.net Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com

ISBN-10: 9956-551-91-0

ISBN-13: 978-9956-551-91-0

©Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher

Dedication In loving memory of Kenan Dickson Muchetu To Shona-Pearl & Zivanai Taye Muchetu,

Acknowledgements I want to first appreciate the support and guidance I received from Professor Yoichi Mine. You provided intellectual advice and support that helped shape not only the book but me as a person. Secondly, I would like to thank my wife, Primrose Mero, whose sacrifices and loving support throughout the development of the book is immeasurable. I am incredibly grateful for your unpaid family labour in the data entering and cleaning process. Special thank you to Walter Chambati and the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS) for the various contributions extended towards the completion of the book. I want to further extend gratitude to my parents Mr Rogermoore and Mrs Dorcus Muchetu for their never- ending support and love (Ndinotenda ana Nyandoro, Zvaitwa Nyamasvisva). It is tough to find a research project such as this book that belong solely to the author. This book is a combination of direct and indirect work by a group of several people, including friends, colleagues, and staff from the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University. Thank you for the various inputs from Stephanie Lorain, Aya Koso, Kevin Nyafwa, Ming-Ru Li, Shamiso Marange, Wonder Magoso, David Muroni, Freedom Mazwi, Ahmed Marwa, Asmao Diallo, Steve Mberi, Kundai Dube, Rungano Muchetu, Mr Mazvinyingwa, Mrs Maziva (CACU chairperson) and many others whom I cannot mention by name. I am also forever grateful to the participants and interviewees who agreed to let a foreigner into their lives in Japanese villages of Nose Farm, Ryuo Green Ohmi and Sanbu. Special mention also goes to the CA and A1 farmers in Goromonzi district who took time to answer my long questions. This book was only possible through the generous funding of the people of Japan through the Japanese Government Scholarship programme (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) and research grants from Doshisha University. Last respect goes to the Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group (Langaa RPCIG) for agreeing to publish this undertaking. I am forever indebted.

Table of Contents List of Illustrations ........................................................... xiii List of Acronyms............................................................... xix Chapter One Introduction to Rural Zimbabwe and its challenges .............................................................. 1 Chapter Two Some Notes on the Theory of Peasant Cooperative ........ 23 Chapter Three State, Markets, and the Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives.................................................. 69 Chapter Four State, Markets, and the Zimbabwe Agricultural Cooperatives.................................................. 111 Chapter Five Field evidence; Current trends and patterns in Japanese Agricultural Cooperative System ....................... 153 Chapter Six Field evidence; Current Trends and Patterns in the Zimbabwe Cooperative Movement......................... 205 Chapter Seven Peasant Differentiation and Its Effects on Social Economic Production ....................................... 251 Chapter Eight Restructuring agricultural cooperatives: A New Cooperative Model for Zimbabwe ........................ 313

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Bibliography ...................................................................... 345 Index.................................................................................. 365

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List of Illustrations Maps Map 1: Map of Japan showing the three research sites .......................................................................... xxiii Map 2: Research sites in Japan....................................................... xxv Map 3: Map of the study site 4: Goromonzi district, Mash-east province, Zimbabwe ................ xxiv Tables Table 1.1: Some background statistics for the research sites ....................................................................... 21 Table 2.1: Classification of the Chayanovian peasantry ................................................................... 62 Table 2.2: Summary of theoretical frameworks.......................... 66 Table 4.1: Source, type and effectiveness of land demand 1997-2020............................................................ 116 Table 4.2: Growth of agricultural service and collective cooperatives 1956-1987 ......................................... 121 Table 4.3: Contemporary local level cooperative challenges in Zimbabwe............................................ 148 Table 5.1: List of interview participants in Japan....................... 154 Table 6.1: List of structured interview participants in Zimbabwe............................................................... 207 Table 6.2: Attitudes towards state hegemony in the cooperative movement ..................................... 239 Table 7.1: Variables used to determine critical study components (N=192).............................................. 253 Table 7.2: Gender and marital status of cooperative members ................................................................ 259 Table 7.3: Employment status of members ................................ 260 Table 7.4: What was the main reason for joining Cooperative? ................................................................. 263 Table 7.5: Founder of the cooperatives ....................................... 263 Table 7.6: Determinants of someone joining a cooperative? ..................................................................... 264 Table 7.7: Access to information within

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