Zimbabwe's environmental dilemma : balancing resource inequities

ABSTRACT

One of the most controversial issues in post-independence Zimbabwe is how the country can tackle the land question in a way that will only address the gross wrongs of the past but also leave its relatively well-developed commercial agricultural sector intact. Indeed; the cautiousness of the Zimbabwe government in developing its land policy and implementing a major land reform programme is as much a result of the Lancaster House Constitution. The message of this book is unequivocal land redistribution is the only way by which the country can move into the path of sustainable development. Without major reform; it is argued;the spectre of ecological disaster will continue to loom over the country. There is more to benefit than to lose in a major land reform exercise aimed at resolving the conflict over resources which characterises the present situation