Article from ROAPE Volume 15 Number 43
Zimbabwe's Agricultural ‘Success’

It will be shown that small holders in the former ‘reserves’ have responded to removal of settler colonialism's imposed barriers and to the extension to them of new opportunities of credit and inputs and of centralised (not as the WB would prefer ‘free’ marketing structures, both of which had been built up to serve large-scale white settler farming. These benefits have been confined to a minority of regions and of better-off peasants and have not solved the problem of poverty faced by the majority.