Development from the Bottom : Small and Medium Farm Holders Empowerment and Challenges of Food Security in Zimbabwe

The aim of this paper is to interrogate the introduction of land commodification through ultra-capitalism. This position was jettisoned in Zimbabwe when government nationalised some white farmers' farms without adequate and prompt compensation in line with the dictates of international law. It is also the paper's intention to push for organic farming that is common in Africa for various reasons: (a) to maintain the continent's flora and fauna (preservation of the continent's ecosystem); (b) to ensure healthy food as against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) food with their environmental shortcomings; (c) to ensure cultural preservation and human rights of land owners; and lastly, (d) to provide employment for the teeming population (about 60%) of ruralised Zimbabweans. In trying to x-ray this problem, a mixed method of data collection was adopted. In conclusion, this paper recommended the empowerment of rural farmers through capacity building from developed states as canvassed by embedded liberalism theorists.