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Acknowledgements We are grateful for the assistance that many people afforded us during this book project. Invaluable comments were received from various Zimbabwean researchers and activists at a workshop convened by the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS) in December 2009 in Harare. We received extensive feedback on some chapters from participants in the annual Agrarian Studies Summer School between 2009 and 2012 in Harare, Dar es Salaam and Grahamstown (Rhodes University). In this regard, special thanks are due to Issa Shivji and Ngwanza Kamata (University of Dar es Salaam), Dzodzi Tsikata (University of Ghana), Praveen Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Fred Hendricks (Rhodes University), Lungisile Ntsebeza (University of Cape Town) and Marcelo Rosa and Antonadia Borges (University of Brasilia) for their critical comments. Shepherd Siziba and Godfrey Mahofa of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension at the University of Zimbabwe assisted us with some of the statistical analyses. We also acknowledge the research assistance provided by AIAS interns, including Steven Mberi, Charity Dangwa and Tatenda Matengu; and the survey enumeration and data entry support provided by several undergraduate students from the University of Zimbabwe and Midlands State University. Hundreds of land reform beneficiaries and other informants gave their valuable time to respond to our interviews. We also thank Lisa María Noudéhou for the editorial support she provided. We are also grateful to various sponsors. The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) funded the convening of the National Working Group (NWG) on Zimbabwe and some followup field work. The baseline field surveys which provided the bulk of the empirical material for most of the chapters were generously funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Harare and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Trust Africa and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) funded the workshops wherein the research was debated. As usual, the views expressed in each of the chapters are those of the authors and not those of the institutions they are affiliated to, the people mentioned above, AIAS as an institution, or the sponsors. ...

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