With limited assets and multiple constraints to access to land, accumulation by young people in our A1 land reform sites is challenging. This blog looks at the multiple pathways followed, highlighting how livelihoods, gender relations and styles of farming are being reinvented in the process.
Challenges faced
The challenges of generating livelihoods, building up assets and wider accumulation faced by young people are considerable. In reflecting on these, the following challenges were identified across cohorts by all informants interviewed (N=416).
This article is from Zimbabweland, a blog written by IDS Research Fellow Ian Scoones. Zimbabweland focuses on issues related to rural livelihoods and land reform in Zimbabwe.
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