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166:. He later argued against the characterisation of these radical land reforms as 'land grabbing', contending that such language "created a moral and political equivalence between the restitutive appropriation of colonially dispossessed lands for state-led land redistribution and the recent externally inspired land grabs in Africa, despite the latter's neoliberal roots", and that the reforms undermined the class structure of settler-colonial relations 159:, which argued that there were five dimensions to Zimbabwe's land question: distribution, utilization, tenure and adjudication, policy around each of which, he argued, further reinforced racial and gender injustice. Based on a detailed set of case studies, the book is described as "comprehensive", and an "exhaustive, multi-disciplinary overview" that "stresses that land is above all a political question and that the issue of race is central to it". 865: 177:, CODESRIA, CLASCO and IDEAS, and publisher of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. In his role with the AIAS, Moyo also worked with the Zimbabwean Ministry of Lands to carry out the Provincial Dialogues on Land Reform, and was regularly called upon to provide commentary to Zimbabwean news outlets on agricultural issues. 180:
Moyo was also outspoken on the centrality of issues of race and gender when it came to questions of land and labour, arguing that "white-settler capitalism organised the labour process such that white capital exercised both 'direct' and 'indirect' power over the indigenous black population", and that
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On 20 November 2015, Moyo, along with two other academics, was involved in a car accident in Delhi, while attending a conference on "Labour Questions in the Global South". He died in hospital two days later as a result of his injuries. Moyo's family declined to have him memorialised as a national
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In 2002, Moyo co-founded the African Institute of Agrarian Studies, a policy research organisation that worked toward equitable land rights and agrarian systems throughout the African continent, and remained its executive director until his death in 2015.
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Moyo published extensively throughout his career, working with a number of different scholars and agronomists to shape national agricultural policy in Zimbabwe, and contribute to agrarian scholarship across the African continent.
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activist, the co-founder and executive director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS) (renamed the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies following his death in 2015), and President of the
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approach to questions of land and labour. He published extensively on agrarian, rural and environmental issues, and founded the journal
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In 2000, Moyo was made head of the Land Reform Technical Advisory Team to the Government of Zimbabwe, which observed the
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Throughout his life, Moyo argued for, and was heavily involved in, land reform in Zimbabwe, taking an
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Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A Triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES
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Reclaiming the Nation: The Return of the National Question in Africa, Asia and Latin America
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Moyo also founded the South-South research network Agrarian South, which includes the AIAS,
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Reclaiming the Land: The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America
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First Annual Colloquium (30 September 2004) at the University of Fort Hare
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Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Moyo's work was described by the former director of the
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Land reform under structural adjustment in Zimbabwe
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Index

Amílcar Cabral
Frantz Fanon
African Institute for Agrarian Studies
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
Zimbabwean
land reform
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
University of Zimbabwe
anti-colonial
Marxist
Global South
Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP)
Third World Forum
Makerere Institute of Social Research
Land reform in Zimbabwe
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
Sam Moyo African Institute of Agrarian Studies
Author page, African Books Collective
"Tributes to Sam Moyo – ROAPE"
"Pr. Sam Moyo (2008-2011) – CODESRIA"


"Sam Moyo"


"Sam Moyo"
"Kai Heron, The Great Unfettering"


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