ABSTRACT
Conscious scholarly focus on agrarian futures that prioritise the farmers’ investment portfolio after the fast track is largely derisory in Zimbabwe's agrarian change literature. This lacuna is enduring in a context where the fast track has resulted in diverse changes since 2000, and the current thrust of agrarian research and policy is increasingly crystallised around pathways for improving its outcomes. In this context, using Shamva rural district as the empirical case study and distinguished studies in other sites, the chapter gives precedence to the productive and non-productive A1 farmer-led investments in land and agriculture. The farmers’ worthwhile investment efforts are remarkably improving over the years yet, are wrought by land use, production and market constraints, narrow savings and reinvestment base and tapered agrarian support from the Government of Zimbabwe and other stakeholders. The endurance of these investment constrictions impedes the social policy and developmental transformation potential of land reform. Enhancing the farmers’ investment capacity should be a priority area in academia and national policy.
