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| Title: | Land, landscapes and disease: the case of foot and mouth in southern Zimbabwe |
| Authors: | Scoones, Ian Wolmer, William |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
| Issue: | 58 |
| Pages: | 42-64 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
| Subjects: | livestock policy veterinary medicine agricultural economy land use animal diseases agricultural history 1900-1999 |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470709464744 |
| Abstract: | Over the last century in Zimbabwe, understandings and responses to foot and mouth disease (FMD) have imposed different visions of landscape, livestock and disease, fundamentally structuring both the discourse and practice of veterinary policy. Veterinary disease control regimes have in turn shaped and reshaped the landscape. Indeed attempts to control FMD have been at the heart of long-fought ideological struggles over the meaning and purpose of land use that have pitched the cattle and game industry lobbies; veterinarians, ecologists and administrators; and white farmers and black settlers, against each other. This paper explores the relationships between FMD and landscape in three broad periods: the period following the establishment of Zimbabwe's beef sector in the late 19th century; the postindependence period; and the period after the land reforms which started in 2000. In each period assumptions about what constitutes the right land use have driven FMD control policies. These assumptions are rooted in social, economic and political criteria, in interaction with veterinary science. The paper concludes by asking what next for Zimbabwe's livestock sector? Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
