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Western hegemony over african agriculture in Southern Rhodesia and its continuing threat to food security in independent zimbabwe

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  • Sam Page
  • Helán Page

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Zimbabwe's communal farmers are now less food secure than they were two generations ago. The roots of this decline lie not only in the confinement of Africans to marginal land but also in the historic forced replacement of their sustainable, indigenous farming system with one whose productivity now relies on the use of large amounts of expensive chemical inputs. Environmentally-friendly, traditional farming practices such as pyro-culture, minimum tillage, mixed cropping, and bush fallowing were completely wiped out and replaced with a highly technical western or ganic farming system based on plough cultivation and continuous monocultures of commodity crops, that were supposed to be sustained by liberal amounts of green and animal manures. This gave rise to an effective agricultural hegemony that was due, mainly, to the zealous dedication of an American Mormon missionary whose motives were evangelical rather than scientific. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991

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  • Sam Page & Helán Page, 1991. "Western hegemony over african agriculture in Southern Rhodesia and its continuing threat to food security in independent zimbabwe," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 8(4), pages 3-18, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:8:y:1991:i:4:p:3-18
    DOI: 10.1007/BF01530650
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    1. B.M. Campbell & P. Bradley & S.E. Carter, 1997. "Sustainability and peasant farming systems: Observations from Zimbabwe," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 14(2), pages 159-168, June.
    2. Roger R. B. Leakey & Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi & Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, 2021. "African Lives Matter: Wild Food Plants Matter for Livelihoods, Justice, and the Environment—A Policy Brief for Agricultural Reform and New Crops," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(13), pages 1-18, June.
    3. Vusilizwe Thebe, 2014. "New Social Formations, Livelihood Transition, and Food Insecurity in Worker–Peasant Communities," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 30(1), pages 45-67, March.
    4. Alois Mandondo, 1997. "Trees and spaces as emotion and norm laden components of local ecosystems in Nyamaropa communal land, Nyanga District, Zimbabwe," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 14(4), pages 353-372, December.

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