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At independence, Zimbabwe inherited a racially skewed agricultural land ownership pattern, where white large-scale commercial farmers, consisting of less than 1% of the population, occupied 45% of agricultural land. Seventy-five (75) percent of this is in the high rainfall areas of Zimbabwe, where the potential for agricultural production is high. Equally significant, 60% of this large-scale commercial land was not merely under-utilised but wholly unutilised. Agrarian reform in Zimbabwe therefore revolves around land reform, that is, adequately addressing the systematic dispossession and alienation from the land of black indigenous people, which occurred during the period of colonial rule. The Zimbabwean Agrarian Reform program involves restructuring of access to land, and an overall transformation of the existing farming system, institutions and structures. It includes access to markets, credit, training and access to social, developmental and economic amenities. It seeks to enha

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