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Local Responses to Involuntary Relocation and Development in the Zambian portion of the Middle Zambezi Valley

In: Migrants in Agricultural Development

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  • Thayer Scudder
  • Jonathan Habarad

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In the late 1950s, 57 000 people were involuntarily moved within the Middle Zambezi Valley in anticipation of their fields and villages being flooded by waters rising behind the recently completed Kariba Dam. Development refugees, they were also rural to rural migrants, with the majority shifted to sites within 20 kilometres of their former homes. Prior to inundation the people lived in permanent villages along the Zambezi and the lower reaches of its major tributaries. Following removal, most were shifted inland along those same tributaries, while 6000 people were moved to the Lusitu region below the dam (see Map 12.1), with a still smaller number resettled on the adjacent plateau.

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  • Thayer Scudder & Jonathan Habarad, 1991. "Local Responses to Involuntary Relocation and Development in the Zambian portion of the Middle Zambezi Valley," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: J. A. Mollett (ed.), Migrants in Agricultural Development, chapter 12, pages 178-205, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11830-4_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11830-4_12
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    1. Jon Unruh & Lisa Cligget & Rod Hay, 2005. "Migrant land rights reception and ‘clearing to claim’ in sub‐Saharan Africa: A deforestation example from southern Zambia," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 29(3), pages 190-198, August.
    2. William Adams, 2006. "WCD Thematic Review Social Issues I.1: The Social Impact of Large Dams--Equity and Distributional Issues," Working Papers id:513, eSocialSciences.

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