Researcher Profile - MUCHETU,RANGARIRAI

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MUCHETU,RANGARIRAI

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Affiliation*

College of Intercultural Communication Department of Intercultural Communication

Title*

Assistant Professor

Degree

Ph.D in Global Society Studies （ 3 2020 Doshisha University ）

Courses in charge*

Academic Year 2025

Campus Career*

4 2024 - Present

College of Intercultural Communication Department of Intercultural Communication Assistant Professor

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Papers

Peasants Survive Again: Risk Perception and Implications for COVID-19 Resilience in Urban and Rural Areas of Zimbabwe

Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu, Walter Chambati

Practical Wisdom and Resilience Overcoming Downside Risk 63 - 90 25 5 2025

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author Publishing type：Part of collection (book) Publisher：Springer Nature Singapore

DOI： 10.1007/978-981-96-4455-1_4

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The 60th JAAS Annual Conference, Forum Report “Exploration of Practical Wisdom and Resilience Overcoming Downside Risk: Collecting Grassroots Voices in Africa under COVID-19”

Kazuyo HANAI, Christian S. OTCHIA, Laban Kithinji KINYUA, Rangarirai Gavin MUCHETU

Journal of African Studies2023 ( 104 ) 41 - 56 31 12 2023

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Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Publisher：Japan Association for African Studies

DOI： 10.11619/africa.2023.104_41

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Africa's Agricultural Development Path in the Context of Demographic Transition: The Role of farmers' cooperatives Peer-reviewed

Mine, Yoichi, Muchetu Rangarirai Gavin

7 2023

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Authorship：Last author Language：Chinese Publishing type：Part of collection (book)

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COVID-19; A Perfect Storm of Downside Risk for Farmer's Markets and Livelihoods in Zimbabwe Invited

Muchetu, Rangarirai Gavin

104 41 - 46 5 2023

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)

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South–South Cooperation in Agriculture: Impacts of Brazil’s More Food International Program on Post-Land Reform Social Organizations in Zimbabwe Peer-reviewed

Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu, Toendepi Shonhe

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES 8 2022

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

DOI： 10.1177/22779760221103118

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“We do not want to survive; we want to thrive.”: Japanese agricultural cooperative’s seven decades of overcoming degeneration Peer-reviewed

Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu

The Japanese Political Economy47 ( 7 ) 1 - 25 3 7 2021

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Informa {UK} Limited

DOI： 10.1080/2329194X.2021.1973902

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Revisiting the Trimodal Agrarian Structure as a Social Differentiation Analysis Framework in Zimbabwe Peer-reviewed International journal

Mazwi Freedom, Muchetu Rangarirai Gavin, Mudimu George

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy10 ( 2 ) 392 - 392 11 2 2021

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Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Langaa RPCIG

DOI： 10.1177/2277976020973837

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Restructuring agricultural cooperatives in the state-market vortex: The case of Zimbabwe and Japan

Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu

Doshisha University Repository 1 - 296 3 2020

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Doctoral thesis

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Analysis of distribution systems for supply of synthetic grain protectants to maize smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe: Implications for hermetic grain storage bag distribution Peer-reviewed

Jones Govereh, Rangarirai G. Muchetu, Brighton M. Mvumi, Teresa Chuma

Journal of Stored Products Research84 12 2019

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Authorship：Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

DOI： 10.1016/j.jspr.2019.101520

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Agricultural Land-Delivery Systems on Zimbabwe: Peer-reviewed

Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu

Land, the State and the Unfinished Decolonisation Project in Africa 25 6 2019

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

DOI： 10.2307/j.ctvmd84q7.8

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Understanding Human Security in African Agrarian Societies: The Case for a Cooperative Model Peer-reviewed

Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu

Journal of Human Security8 ( 1 ) 20 - 44 4 2019

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

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Family farms and the markets: examining the level of market-oriented production 15 years after the Zimbabwe Fast Track Land Reform programme

Muchetu Rangarirai Gavin

Review of African Political Economy46 ( 159 ) 33 - 54 2019

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

DOI： 10.1080/03056244.2019.1609919

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Agricultural Land-delivery Systems in Zimbabwe: A Review of Four Decades of Sam Moyo's Work on Agricultural Land Markets and Their Constraints

MUCHETU Rangarirai Gavin

African study monographs. Supplementary issue. ( 57 ) 65 - 94 6 2018

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Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University

DOI： 10.14989/233009

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Food self-sufficiency and food sovereignty : examining the fallacy of the 'change in taste and preferences' mantra in the evolution of the Japanese rice system

Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu

( 9 ) 83 - 99 2018

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Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：The Association of Global Studies, Doshisha University

DOI： 10.14988/pa.2020.0000000133

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Land, Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe Viewed from a Transformative Social Policy Perspective

Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies 30 6 2017

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Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

DOI： 10.25159/0304-615x/2168

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Zimbabwe rural women's lived experiences: Amplifying grassroots rural women's constraints in accessing and controlling land resources in Zimbabwe International journal

Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu

2017

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Language：English Publisher：Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies Monographs

DOI： 10.13140/RG.2.2.19495.19369

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Out-grower sugarcane production post fast track land reform programme in Zimbabwe Peer-reviewed International journal

Mazwi Freedom, Muchetu Rangarirai Gavin

Ubuntu; Journal of Development Studies4 17 - 48 1 2015

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Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation, 4, 17-48

This paper analyses the impacts of integrating global south agricultural producers into the global markets through a case study of sugar outgrowers in Zimbabwe. The paper observes that the changed agrarian structure following the Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe has reconfigured the agricultural finance system as private commercial banks are now using plantation estates as conduits to provide loans to sugar outgrowers. Contractual arrangements between sugar outgrowers and plantation estates are mainly for production and marketing. The paper also finds agrarian relations to be iniquitous and exploitative largely in favor of plantation estates. Indeed, though constrained, capital formation has been an ongoing process among outgrowers and we argue that it is dependent in nature because of its reliance on credit provided by the plantation estate. Incomes derived from sugar production have mainly been channeled towards the purchase of agricultural inputs as well as the payment of milling charges. The study is premised on two sugar estates in Chiredzi, owned by a South African based transnational company. Primary data was collected using questionnaires on 50 outgrowers who are working with Tongaat Hulett, as well as through-in-depth interviews with key informants. The methodology involved thorough verification exercises which included respondent re-visits before being entered into CS-Pro for further cleaning then exported to SPSS for analysis

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Books and Other Publications

Practical Wisdom and Resilience Overcoming Downside Risk: Grassroots Voices in Africa Under COVID-19

Kazuyo Hanai, Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu, Kinyua Laban Kithinji, Mine Yoichi（ Role： Joint author）

Springer 5 2025 （ ISBN:9789819644575 ）

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Stranded and Straddling? The Youth in Zimbabwe’s Agricultural Sector, 1980-2020

Toendepi Shonhe, Muchetu Rangarirai Gavin（ Role： Joint author , Research, analysis and writing）

Weaver Press. Harare, Zimbabwe 7 2021

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After Radical Land Reform: Restructuring agricultural cooperatives in Zimbabwe and Japan

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Langaa RPCIG 2 2021

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Professional Memberships

11 2018 - Present

Japan Society for Afrasian Studies (JSAS)

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2 2017 - Present

Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA)

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