1 - Introduction: Agrarian Change, Food Security, Migration and Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe
Africa Development,
Vol. 47 No. 3 (2022): Africa Development: Special Issue on Agrarian Change, Food Security, Migration and Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe
Abstract
African countries face multiple developmental, economic, social and industrial transformation hurdles, especially in the era of sustainable development and sensitivity to environmental damage. As late-comer industrialisers, there is some catching up to do, but they need to navigate complex, international, legal and institutional agreements that early industrialisers did not face. Given the environmental concerns, it is not surprising that the development thrusts encouraged are in agriculture and not in heavy industry. At the same time, many African countries are grappling food security, rural–urban and cross-border migration, and social, economic with industrial transformation challenges (Mkandawire 2001; Bruijn, Van Dijk and Foeken 2001; Diop 2008; Tsikata 2009; Patnaik, Moyo and Shivji 2011; Sall et al. 2011; Cheru and Modi 2013; Hall, Scoones and Tsikata 2015; Cross and Cliffe 2017; Bredeloup 2015; Jha, Chambati and Ossome 2021; Adesina 2021). This special issue brings together a broad range of papers exploring some of the myriad complexities faced by African countries. It focuses on Senegal and Zimbabwe, a western and a southern Africa country. The choice of countries was purposive as the editors had active networks in Zimbabwe and Senegal, and bringing together two...
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- Adesina, J., ed., 2021, Social Policy in the African Context, Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) / Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique.
- Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD), 2021, Enquête Harmonisée sur les Conditions de Vie des Ménages (EHCVM), Senegal, https://www.ansd.sn/ressources/publications/Rapport-final-EHCVM-vf- Senegal.pdf Binswanger-Mkhize, H. and Moyo, S., 2012, Recovery and Economic Growth of Zimbabwe Agriculture, Harare: World Bank.
- Bredeloup, S., 2015, Introduction: Terrains revisités en migrations africaines, Africa Development / Afrique et Développement, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 1–17, https://www.jstor.org/stable/afrdevafrdev.40.1.1 Dieng, Banda & Chambati: Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe 7 Cheru, F., and Modi, R., 2013, Agricultural development and food security in Africa: The impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian investments, London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Cross, H., and Cliffe, L., 2017, A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa, Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 153, pp. 381–398, https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2017.1333411 Bruijn, M., Van Dijk, R., and Foeken, D., eds, 2001, Mobile Africa: Changing Patterns of Movement in Africa and Beyond, Leiden: Brill, https://brill.com/view/title/7568 Diop, M. C., 2008, Le Sénégal des migrations: Mobilités, identités et sociétés, Paris: Editions Karthala, Centre de recherche sur les politiques sociales, ONU-Habitat.
- Hall, R., Scoones, I., and Tsikata, D., eds, 2015, Africa’s Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change, new edition, Woodbridge, UK: James Currey Publishers, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt16vj222 Jha, P., Chambati, W., and Ossome, L., 2021, Labour Questions in the Global South, Cham: Springer Books, https://econpapers.repec.org/bookchap/ sprsprbok/978-981-33-4635-2.htm Mazwi, F., Chemura, A., Mudium, G. and Chambati, W., 2019, The Political Economy of Command Agriculture in Zimbabwe, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 8, No. 1–2, pp. 232–257.
- Mkandawire, T., 2001, Thinking about developmental states in Africa, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 289–313, https://www.jstor.org/ stable/23600389 Moyo, S., 2011, Changing Agrarian Relations After Redistributive Land Reform in Zimbabwe, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 939–966.
- Moyo, S., Sitko, N., Meyer, F. and Butaumocho, B., 2014, Zimbabwe’s Food Grain Economy Study, Harare: World Bank.
- Patnaik, U., Moyo, S. and Shivji, I., 2011, The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era: Primitive Accumulation and the Peasantry, London: Pambazuka Press.
- Sall, M., Tall, S. M., Samb, A., and Tandian, A., 2011, Climate change, adaptation strategies and mobility: Evidence from four settlements in Senegal, London, UK: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Human Settlements Programme.
- Scoones, I., & Murimbarimba, F., 2021, "Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe", The European Journal of Development Research, 33(6), 2040–2062. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00343-3 Tsikata, D., 2009, Gender, land and labour relations and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa in the era of economic liberalisation: Towards a research agenda, Feminist Africa, Vol. 12. World Food Programme (WFP), 2021, Zimbabwe Annual Country Report 2021, Harare: WFP.
References
Adesina, J., ed., 2021, Social Policy in the African Context, Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) / Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique.
Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD), 2021, Enquête Harmonisée sur les Conditions de Vie des Ménages (EHCVM), Senegal, https://www.ansd.sn/ressources/publications/Rapport-final-EHCVM-vf- Senegal.pdf Binswanger-Mkhize, H. and Moyo, S., 2012, Recovery and Economic Growth of Zimbabwe Agriculture, Harare: World Bank.
Bredeloup, S., 2015, Introduction: Terrains revisités en migrations africaines, Africa Development / Afrique et Développement, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 1–17, https://www.jstor.org/stable/afrdevafrdev.40.1.1 Dieng, Banda & Chambati: Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe 7 Cheru, F., and Modi, R., 2013, Agricultural development and food security in Africa: The impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian investments, London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
Cross, H., and Cliffe, L., 2017, A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa, Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 153, pp. 381–398, https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2017.1333411 Bruijn, M., Van Dijk, R., and Foeken, D., eds, 2001, Mobile Africa: Changing Patterns of Movement in Africa and Beyond, Leiden: Brill, https://brill.com/view/title/7568 Diop, M. C., 2008, Le Sénégal des migrations: Mobilités, identités et sociétés, Paris: Editions Karthala, Centre de recherche sur les politiques sociales, ONU-Habitat.
Hall, R., Scoones, I., and Tsikata, D., eds, 2015, Africa’s Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change, new edition, Woodbridge, UK: James Currey Publishers, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt16vj222 Jha, P., Chambati, W., and Ossome, L., 2021, Labour Questions in the Global South, Cham: Springer Books, https://econpapers.repec.org/bookchap/ sprsprbok/978-981-33-4635-2.htm Mazwi, F., Chemura, A., Mudium, G. and Chambati, W., 2019, The Political Economy of Command Agriculture in Zimbabwe, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 8, No. 1–2, pp. 232–257.
Mkandawire, T., 2001, Thinking about developmental states in Africa, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 289–313, https://www.jstor.org/ stable/23600389 Moyo, S., 2011, Changing Agrarian Relations After Redistributive Land Reform in Zimbabwe, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 939–966.
Moyo, S., Sitko, N., Meyer, F. and Butaumocho, B., 2014, Zimbabwe’s Food Grain Economy Study, Harare: World Bank.
Patnaik, U., Moyo, S. and Shivji, I., 2011, The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era: Primitive Accumulation and the Peasantry, London: Pambazuka Press.
Sall, M., Tall, S. M., Samb, A., and Tandian, A., 2011, Climate change, adaptation strategies and mobility: Evidence from four settlements in Senegal, London, UK: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Human Settlements Programme.
Scoones, I., & Murimbarimba, F., 2021, "Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe", The European Journal of Development Research, 33(6), 2040–2062. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00343-3 Tsikata, D., 2009, Gender, land and labour relations and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa in the era of economic liberalisation: Towards a research agenda, Feminist Africa, Vol. 12. World Food Programme (WFP), 2021, Zimbabwe Annual Country Report 2021, Harare: WFP.