Catch up on Zimbabweland

If you missed out on Zimbabweland blog posts since the beginning of the year, you can catch up now (sorry, I am on holiday!). Here are the dozen most popular ones of those posted this year:

• Spurious statistics: why figures on Zimbabwe's 'lost growth' mislead

• Going up in smoke: the environmental costs of Zimbabwe's tobacco boom

• Dams, flooding and displacement: the Tokwe Mukorsi dam

• A fictitious budget or a sensible plan in constrained circumstances? Zimbabwe's 2014 budget

• Land tenure dilemmas in Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe's country clubs: the changing social life of Zimbabwe's farming areas

• Zimbabwe's gold rush: livelihoods for the poor or a patronage economy, or both?

• Farm workers: reconstructing lives and livelihoods

• GM crops: continuing controversy

• Access to $1000 credit: would this help unleash agricultural commercialisation in Zimbabwe?

• What should be on a new Zim dollar note? Two nominations

• Rethinking agricultural extension

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Also, in case you missed them, two blog series were posted in this period, focusing on updates of the Masvingo 'livelihoods after land reform' work, looking at changes in the last five years, and comparing new resettlements with nearby communal areas. You can find the first posts in the links below (they ran for the subsequent 4-5 weeks, so just click 'next').

https://zimbabweland.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/how-have-the-new-farmers-fared-an-update-on-the-masvingo-study-i/

https://zimbabweland.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/comparing-communal-areas-and-new-resettlements-in-zimbabwe-i-an-introduction-to-a-short-blog-series/

Finally, the low cost book 'Debating Zimbabwe's Land Reform', a compilation of various blogs from 2011-2013, is now available in Kindle format for 77p! You can still buy the book via Amazon if you prefer a paper version for just over a fiver.

This post was written by Ian Scoones and originally appeared on Zimbabweland