Prof Stephen Chan, chairing this meeting, stated that this is a book of great importance. There is a tendency when discussing subjects such as land reform in Zimbabwe to talk about them without nuance. It is however important to develop our discussions in a more complex manner, recognising that — particularly in this situation — people are not dupes, and that there is much space for human agency and creativity. Crucially, in this example, discussion on land in Zimbabwe has largely been carried out by people who know very little about land. Professor Ian Scoones, however, does. As Robin Palmer later stated, land in Zimbabwe has always been used as a political and economic weapon. Responses to reform must therefore be interpreted in this context. Prof Ian Scoones The book has been 10 years in the making, and the essentially local study was conceptualised pre-2000 when the Fast Track Land Reform, characterised by land invasions, first started. However, the land reform could not be ignored, and thus was incorporated into the study, and became an interesting new dynamic. No one really knew what reform would bring to agrarian structure, the answer being complex and not all to the detriment of agricultural production. The study focussed on Masvingo Province. By 2010 9 million hectares of land had been transferred from previous ownership to a variety of different constituencies. This accounts for approximately 30 percent of the land in the province. The primary question Prof …

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