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Mukucha, P., Chari, F & Manzini, S. (2023). An assessment of differential supplier category performance in the agro processing industry: A case for supplier development in the Zimbabwean tobacco industry.Journal of Future Sustainability, 3(4), 222-232.
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Moyo, S., Chamabti, W., Mazwi, F. & Muchtu, R. (2020). Land use. Agricultural production and food security survey. Trends and tendencies, 2013/14. Harare: SMAIAS.
Mukucha, P. & Chari, F. (2021). The influence of supplier development, in the form of contract farming, on perfor-mance in Zimbabwean tobacco industry. Cogent Business &Management, 8(1), 1968732.
Mukucha, P. & Chari, F. (2022). Supply chain resilience: the role of supplier development in the form of contract farm-ing in fast-food outlets in Zimbabwe. Continuity & Resilience Review, 4(3), 280-299.
Mukucha, P. & Chari, F. (2023). The moderating effect of farming contracts on the relationship between responsive supply chain elements and supply chain resilience. Journal of Future Sustainability, 3, 1–8.
Mutambara, J. & Mujeyi, K. (2020). Enhancing competitiveness of Zimbabwe’s cotton production under contract farm-ing. African Journal of Scince, Technology, Innovation and Development, 13(3), 283-291.
Paltasingh, K. R. & Goyari, P. (2018). Impact of farmer education on farm productivity under varying technologies: case of paddy growers in India. Agricultural and Food Economics, 9(7).
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Sakata, Y., Nyambara, P. & Prowse, M. (2022). The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klon-dike to Contract Farming. Journal of Southern African Studies, 48(2), 293-315.
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Scoones, I., Mavedzenge, B., Murimbarimba, F. & Sukume, C. (2018). Tobacco, contract farming, and agrarian change in Zimbabwe. Journal of Agrarian Change, 18, 22-42.
Shonhe, T. & Scoones, I. (2022). Private and state-led contract farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, social differentia-tion and rural politics. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(1), 118-138.
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Shonhe, T., Scoones, I. & Murimbrimba, F. (2021). Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: the experience of A2 resettlement farms. Journal of Morden African Studies, 58(4), 601-626.
Singh, S. (2002). Multinational corporations and agricultural development: a study of contract farming in the Indian Punjab. Journal of International Development, 14(2), 181-194.
Sitko, N., & Chamberlin, J. (2015). The anatomy of medium-scale farm growth in Zambia: what are the implications for the future of smallholder agriculture? Land, 4(3), 869-887.
Tabachnick, B. G., Fidell, L. S., & Ullman, J. B. (2013). Using multivariate statistics (Vol. 6, pp. 497-516). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Tausha, I & Zengeni, T. (2017). Promoting inclusive growth through competition regulation: the case of tobacco, cotton, and cattle marketing in Zimbabwe. Da es salaam, Tanzania, 14-15 July 2017.
Wisner, J. D., Tan, K. & Leong, G. K. (2016). Principles of Supply Chain Management: A Balanced Approach. (4th edi-tion). Cengage Learning: Boston.
Alvarez, S. A., & Busenitz, L. W. (2001). The entrepreneurship of resource-based theory. Journal of Management, 27(6), 755–775.
Aydas, O., Rossb, A., Parker, H. & Alavi, S. (2023). Using efficiency frontiers to visualise suppliers’ performance capa-bilities: moving beyond supplier rationalization. Journal of Business Analytics, 6(1), 19–38.
Barney, J. B., Ketchen, D. J. & Wright, M. (2011). The future of resource-based theory: revitalization or decline? Jour-nal of Management, 37(5), 1299-1315.
Basera, J., Makate, C. & Tozooneyi, T. (2016). Comprehending smallholder maize enterprises’ profitability with the current maize marketing system in Zimbabwe: a case of Mazoe district. Asian Journal of Agricultural and Rural De-velopment, 6(6), 90-105.
Benton, W. C. (2014). Purchasing and supply chain management. (3rd edition). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Bernstein, H. Lenin V.I. & Chayanov A.V. (2009). Looking back, looking forward. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(1), 55-81.
Buka, G. (2017). Increasing seed cotton production in Zimbabwe. National Capacity-Building Workshop, Harare. UNCTAD.
Chari, F., Mukonyo, J., Novukela, C., Sibanda L., & Chabata, T. V. (2023). Sustainability of maize supply chains: The role of supplier development in the form of command farming in Mazowe district, Zimbabwe. Journal of Future Sustainability, 3(1), 11-23.
Chayanov, A. V. (1966). The theory of peasant economy; Thorner, D., Kerblay, B., Smith, R. E. F., eds.; Irwin: Home-wood, IL, USA.
Chemura, A., Chambati, W. & Mazwi, F. (2018). State led contract farming in maize production and farmers’ lived ex-periences: the case of maize input support programme for import substitution in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network.
Chingosho, R., Dare, C. & van Walbeek, C. (2021). Tobacco farming and current debt status among smallholder farmers in Manicaland province in Zimbabwe. Trob Control, 30, 610-615.
Chopra, S., Meindl, D. & Kalra, D. V. (2018). Supply Chain Management. Strategy, Planning, and Operation. (7th edi-tion). Pearson India Education services Pvt Ltd.
Cousins, P. D. (1999). Supply base rationalisation: myth or reality? European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Man-agement, 5(4), 143-155.
Coyle, J. J., Langley Jr, C. J., Novack, R. A. & Gibson, B. J. (2021). Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective. (11th Edition). South-Western Cengage Learning.
Dore, D. (2009). The recovery and transformation of Zimbabwe’s communal areas. United Nations Development Pro-gramme. Working Paper Number 4.
Fang, J., De Souza, L., Smith, J. & Lee, K. (2020). “All weather friend”. How China transformed Zimbabwe’s tobacco sector. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 1-13.
Field, A. (2018). Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics. SAGE Publications Ltd: London.
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. (2021). FAO in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe at a Glance. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Available online: https://www.fao.org/zimbabwe/fao-in-zimbabwe/zimbabwe-at-a-glance/en/ (accessed on 14 January 2023).
Grary, L. C., Downuribe, B. & Kaminski, J. (2018). Weaving cotton led development? Liberalisation, cotton producer organisations, and uneven development in Burkina Faso. Journal of Agrarian Change, 18, 831-847.
Grimm, L. G., & Yarnold, P. R. (editors). (1995). Reading and Understanding Multivariate Statistics. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Jayne, T.S., J. Chamberlin, L. Traub, N. Sitko, M. Muyanga, F.K. Yeboah, W. Anseeuw, WA. Chapoto, A.Wineman & Nkonde. C. (2016). Africa’s changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium-scale farms. Agricultural Economics, 47,197-214.
Johnsen, T. E., Howard, M. & Miemczyk, J. (2014). Purchasing and Supply Chain Management. A Sustainability Per-spective. Routledge: New York.
Kotler, P. & Keller, L. K. (2016). Marketing Management. (15th edition). Pearson Education Limited.
Kumirai, T., Kugedera, A. T. & Chimbwanda, F. (2018). An analysis of factors affecting cotton production in Zvishavane: A case of ward 4 in Zvishavane district. Global Scientific Journals, 6(5), 152-171.
Leaver, R. (2004). Measuring the supply response function of tobacco in Zimbabwe. Agrekon, 43(1), 113-131
Levine, D. (2014). Even You Can Learn Statistics and Analytics: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Statistics and Analyt-ics. (3rd Edition). Pearson FT Press.
Luna, K. (2018). The chain of exploitation: intersectional inequalities, capital accumulation, and resistance in Burkina Faso’s cotton sector. Journal of Peasant Studies, 14(2), 191-225.
Lysons, K. & Farrington, B. (2020). Procurement and Supply Chain Management. (10th edition). Pearson Education Ltd, London.
Mahapatra, S., Levental, S. & Narasimhan, R. (2017). Market price uncertainty, risk aversion and procurement: combin-ing contracts and open market sourcing alternatives. International Journal of Production Economics, 185, 34-51.
Masvongo, J., Mutambara, J. & Zvinavashe, A. (2013). Viability of tobacco production under smallholder sector in Mount Darwin District, Zimbabwe. Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, 5(8), 259-301.
Mazhawidza, P. & Manjengwa, J. (2011). The social, political, and transformative impact of the Fast Track Land Re-form Programme on the lives of women farmers in Goromonzi and Vungu-Gweru Districts of Zimbabwe, interna-tional Land Coalition Report.
Mazwi, F., Chambati, W. & Mudimu, G. T. (2020). Tobacco contract farming in Zimbabwe: power dynamics, accumu-lation trajectories, land use patterns ad livelihoods. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38(1), 55-71.
Mazwi, F., Chambati, W. & Mutodi, K. (2018). Contract farming arrangement and poor resourced farmers in Zimbabwe. Policy Brief. Sam Moyo Institute for Agrarian Studies.
Mazwi, F., Chemura, A., Mudimu, G. T. & Chambati, W. (2019). Political economy of command agriculture in Zimba-bwe: A state-led contract farming model. Agrarian South. Journal of Political Economy, 8(1-2), 232-257.
McGregor, D. (1960). The Human Side of Enterprise. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1960.
Mkodzongi, G. & Lawrence, P. (2019). The fast-track land reform and agrarian change in Zimbabwe. Review of African Political Economy, 46(159), 1-13.
Moyo, S. & Chambati, W. (2013). Land and agrarian reform in Zimbabwe. Oxford: African Books Collective.
Moyo, S., Chamabti, W., Mazwi, F. & Muchtu, R. (2020). Land use. Agricultural production and food security survey. Trends and tendencies, 2013/14. Harare: SMAIAS.
Mukucha, P. & Chari, F. (2021). The influence of supplier development, in the form of contract farming, on perfor-mance in Zimbabwean tobacco industry. Cogent Business &Management, 8(1), 1968732.
Mukucha, P. & Chari, F. (2022). Supply chain resilience: the role of supplier development in the form of contract farm-ing in fast-food outlets in Zimbabwe. Continuity & Resilience Review, 4(3), 280-299.
Mukucha, P. & Chari, F. (2023). The moderating effect of farming contracts on the relationship between responsive supply chain elements and supply chain resilience. Journal of Future Sustainability, 3, 1–8.
Mutambara, J. & Mujeyi, K. (2020). Enhancing competitiveness of Zimbabwe’s cotton production under contract farm-ing. African Journal of Scince, Technology, Innovation and Development, 13(3), 283-291.
Paltasingh, K. R. & Goyari, P. (2018). Impact of farmer education on farm productivity under varying technologies: case of paddy growers in India. Agricultural and Food Economics, 9(7).
Posterman, R. L. & Hanstad, T. (2005). Land reform in the 21st century: New Challenges, New Responses. Available online: www.rdiland.org/PDEReports/RDI_117.pdf. (Accessed on 08 January 2023).
Prowse, M. & Pérez Niño, H. (2022). Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An In-troduction. Journal of Southern African Studies, 48(2), 221-233.
Sakata, Y., Nyambara, P. & Prowse, M. (2022). The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klon-dike to Contract Farming. Journal of Southern African Studies, 48(2), 293-315.
Scoones, I & Murimbarimba, F. (2021). Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe. The European Journal of Devel-opment Research, 33, 2040–2062.
Scoones, I., Mavedzenge, B., Murimbarimba, F. & Sukume, C. (2018). Tobacco, contract farming, and agrarian change in Zimbabwe. Journal of Agrarian Change, 18, 22-42.
Shonhe, T. & Scoones, I. (2022). Private and state-led contract farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, social differentia-tion and rural politics. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(1), 118-138.
Shonhe, T. (2018). The political economy of agricultural commercialisation in Zimbabwe. Brighton: Future Agricul-tures Consortium.
Shonhe, T., Scoones, I. & Murimbrimba, F. (2021). Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: the experience of A2 resettlement farms. Journal of Morden African Studies, 58(4), 601-626.
Singh, S. (2002). Multinational corporations and agricultural development: a study of contract farming in the Indian Punjab. Journal of International Development, 14(2), 181-194.
Sitko, N., & Chamberlin, J. (2015). The anatomy of medium-scale farm growth in Zambia: what are the implications for the future of smallholder agriculture? Land, 4(3), 869-887.
Tabachnick, B. G., Fidell, L. S., & Ullman, J. B. (2013). Using multivariate statistics (Vol. 6, pp. 497-516). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Tausha, I & Zengeni, T. (2017). Promoting inclusive growth through competition regulation: the case of tobacco, cotton, and cattle marketing in Zimbabwe. Da es salaam, Tanzania, 14-15 July 2017.
Wisner, J. D., Tan, K. & Leong, G. K. (2016). Principles of Supply Chain Management: A Balanced Approach. (4th edi-tion). Cengage Learning: Boston.