Changing agrarian relations after redistributive land reform in Zimbabwe

Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe: Beyond White-Settler Capitalism

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 195-250

  Moyo, Sam ^a   Nyoni, Ndabezinhle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

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