Ecology, Agriculture and Proletarianization : A study of the sinazongwe area in Gwembe Valley of the Southern Province of Zambia : 1900 to 1989
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description: This dissertation is divided into three chapters. Chapter one examines the impact of colonial rule and capital penetration on ecology and agriculture in the Sinazongwe sub-district between 1900 and 1958. The chapter demonstrates how colonial policies like land alienation, the Inyoka tobacco ordinance of 1924 and the Kariba resettlement programme undermined agricultural development in our area of study. It shows how the impact of colonial policies on ecology worsened the problem of shortage of food which the Sinazongwe people had been experiencing in the previous century.The chapter further shows the defectiveness of the corrective measures the government used to solve the .problem of famine.Chapter two analyses the rationale behind the construction of Kariba Dam . It also examines the ecological impact of the creation of Kariba Dam after 1958. It specifically identifies the impact on ecology which the flooding of Lake Kariba had on the peoples Agricultural lands and the problem of soil erosion in the new areas. The chapter further looks at the process of resettling the people displaced by the flooding of Lake Kariba and the problem of land shortage as a result of population pressure.We will further demonstrate how the resettled people suffered a prolonged drought in the 1980's and discuss the impact of this drought on child mortality rate as a result of malnutrition.We will further examine the impact of tsetse fly on agricultural expansion and its effects on livestock. We will show that the tsetse control measures introduced after 1958 were so effective that the number of cattle increased in the Sinazongwe sub-district.However, this increase in the number of livestock resulted in a serious problem of soil erosion. In the period 1966 to 1989, the study will analyse the reasons which led to the opening of Nkandabwe and later Maamba coal mines in the Sinazongwe sub district. Here the study demonstrates the impact of coal production on human resettlement,the leaching of…
abstract: This dissertation is divided into three chapters. Chapter one examines the impact of colonial rule and capital penetration on ecology and agriculture in the Sinazongwe sub-district between 1900 and 1958. The chapter demonstrates how colonial policies like land alienation, the Inyoka tobacco ordinance of 1924 and the Kariba resettlement programme undermined agricultural development in our area of study. It shows how the impact of colonial policies on ecology worsened the problem of shortage of food which the Sinazongwe people had been experiencing in the previous century.The chapter further shows the defectiveness of the corrective measures the government used to solve the .problem of famine.Chapter two analyses the rationale behind the construction of Kariba Dam . It also examines the ecological impact of the creation of Kariba Dam after 1958. It specifically identifies the impact on ecology which the flooding of Lake Kariba had on the peoples Agricultural lands and the problem of soil erosion in the new areas. The chapter further looks at the process of resettling the people displaced by the flooding of Lake Kariba and the problem of land shortage as a result of population pressure.We will further demonstrate how the resettled people suffered a prolonged drought in the 1980's and discuss the impact of this drought on child mortality rate as a result of malnutrition.We will further examine the impact of tsetse fly on agricultural expansion and its effects on livestock. We will show that the tsetse control measures introduced after 1958 were so effective that the number of cattle increased in the Sinazongwe sub-district.However, this increase in the number of livestock resulted in a serious problem of soil erosion. In the period 1966 to 1989, the study will analyse the reasons which led to the opening of Nkandabwe and later Maamba coal mines in the Sinazongwe sub district. Here the study demonstrates the impact of coal production on human resettlement,the leaching of…
author: Haantobolo, Godfrey H. N.
language: en
keywords: Ecology- -Southern province- -Zambia, Agriculture- -Southern Province- -Zambia
date published: 2011-08-29
date modified: 2026-07-27T22:06:05Z
provider: University of Zambia
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of Zambia