Biography
Dr George T Mudimu holds a PhD in Public Management (Rural Development and Management) from China Agricultural University (CAU) in Beijing, a Master’s in Public Administration from Tsinghua University, also in Beijing, and an Honours in Public Administration from the University of Zimbabwe. He researches land politics, rural politics; livelihoods, agrarian change, and political economy. George’s current research is on counter-agrarian reform, capitalism, food systems, climate change politics and land politics. George is a researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn, Germany. George is also a research Fellow of Climate Change and Food Security Institute at MUAST. He was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Development Sciences at Marondera University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (MUAST), Marondera, Zimbabwe. He was a post-doctoral researcher under the Sarchl Chair on Land, Poverty, Land And Agrarian Studies, Professor Ruth Hall at PLAAS, University of Western Cape (August 2020 to December 2022). George was a research fellow in the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD), at CAU (July 2020 to December 2020).
George was a Research Fellow for the International Poverty Reduction Center in China, Beijing (August 2017-September 2018), a research intern with the Sam Moyo African Institute of Agrarian Studies (January 2018-August 2018), and a member of the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative and the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists of the Global South. George belongs to a scholar-activist tradition. Hence, is very much interested in changing the material conditions of the marginalized in the global South. George is also a member of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS).
He has published in leading international journals such as the Journal of Peasant Studies, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Third World Quarterly, Review of African Political Economy, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, and GeoJournal. In addition, George has also acted as a referee for many international journals such as Landuse Policy, Third World Quarterly, the Journal of Peasant Studies, World Development, and Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy among many others. George was also an external examiner for Nelson Mandela University in South Africa, University of Lusaka, and University of Johannesburg and has also co-supervised masters and PhD students at PLAAS, at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, MUAST, Zimbabwe, and UNILUS in Zambia. George regularly writes opinion pieces in newspapers in Zimbabwe. In addition, George has coordinated, presented, and co-organised several regional and international conferences on land, climate, and agriculture. George has also participated in several field researches on land governance, food systems, and agriculture. George is a Senior Editor for Cogent Social Sciences (Taylor and Francis), a book review Co-editor for the Journal of Peasant Studies (Taylor and Francis).