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Development and Differentiation. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Nov 2008, Pages: 508
This book explores irrigation and rainfed
agricultural development in ARDA-type schemes and the
adjoining dryland in Zimbabwe’s northwestern frontier
region of Sanyati including the peasant
differentiation that subsequently emerged. It helps
rewrite the story of rural differentiation in an
irrigation sector compared to the dryland sector. It
makes a very strong case for the different
intensities of differentiation between these farming
settings. Incorporating resettlement, land, water,
conservation, food security and poverty alleviation
policies it contends that irrigation produced
distinct types of differentiation hitherto unknown in
this area. The process of differentiation emerged as
an unintended outcome of governmental policy.
Sanyati’s remarkable progression from a backwater to
a thriving regional economy was premised on cotton
commodity production. Its agrarian experience is
unique and relevant not only to Zimbabwe, but also to
South Africa, Southern Africa and other semi-arid
parts of the world. The book is targeted at a wide
readership namely university students, academics,
policy makers, civic society and other stakeholders
interested in rural smallholder enterprise.
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