Radical land reform programmes generate changes in agrarian structures
and capital accumulation trajectories in the countryside. This book
examines how capital accumulation is being reshaped by changing
financing and marketing of agricultural commodities and presents an
emerging Quadi-PMMR-model agrarian structure composed of the poor,
middle, middle-to-rich peasants and some rich capitalists with a growing
middle scale farmer base constituting two thirds of the rural population
in Zimbabwe. This evidence based assessment, 15 years after the FTLRP,
sheds light on policy outcomes and impacts on communities, revealing the
changing production, marketing, capital accumulation and class formation
tendencies across Zimbabwe's settlement models and agro-ecological
settings. The book fuses the reliance on agrarian political economy
lenses and factor component analysis to reveal the dynamics of agrarian
change and to explore the dialectic between production and circulation
and between the centre and periphery in exceptional fashion that expands
our understanding of Zimbabwe's agrarian transition.