Zimbabwe: land issues Questions of tenure and compensation have taken centre stage in a new phase of Zimbabwe’s agricultural revolution Zimbabwe’s agricultural and political landscape was turned upside down in 2000 when government-supported mobs chased mostly white commercial farmers from their farms. This burst the country’s main economic artery and earned President Robert Mugabe notoriety in the West. The fever of world reaction has since died down. The attitude of the international community, for the most part, seems to be one of acceptance—at least publicly. Zimbabwe’s land revolution has now entered a new phase where legal questions of tenure and…
