This paper seeks to document the experiences of and challenges experienced by farmers resettled according to the communal/villagised model of resettlement in Upper Guruve district in Zimbabwe. The paper is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 2009 to 2017. Almost two decades have passed since Zimbabwe’s popular and yet controversial Fast Track Land Reform Programme was introduced in 2000. An analysis of the experiences of resettled farmers reveals challenges borne out of unresolved tenurial rights, unforeseen generational population pressures and conflict erupting between resettled farmers and existing residents from nearby communal areas. This has birthed competition over resources, boundary conflicts and contestations over authority, ultimately leading to livelihood fragility. Compounding the resettled farmers’ predicament is the recent discovery of minerals, the mining of which destroys their farms. The paper addresses the three interrelated issues of tenurial conflicts, challenges faced by resettled farmers, and the major contributors of livelihoods fragility in order to examine the causes, context and implications of livelihood fragility on resettled farmers in Upper Guruve.

本文试图记录根据津巴布韦上古鲁夫地区的移民安置的社区/村落安置模式进行安置的农​​民的经历和挑战。该论文基于从2009年至2017年进行的长期民族志田野调查。自2000年津巴布韦广受欢迎但颇具争议的快速通道土地改革计划推出以来，已经过去了近二十年。对移民农民的经验进行的分析表明，挑战仍然存在。未解决的权属权利，无法预料的世代人口压力以及安置的农民与附近公共区的现有居民之间爆发冲突。这催生了对资源的竞争，边界冲突和对权力的争夺，最终导致了生计的脆弱性。最近发现的矿物使采矿工人的困境更加复杂，开采矿物破坏了他们的农场。本文探讨了权属冲突的三个相互关联的问题，安置农民所面临的挑战以及生计脆弱性的主要贡献者，以便研究生计脆弱性对上古鲁夫安置农民的成因，背景和影响。