225 © Te Author(s) 2021 E. Masitera (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Land Reform in Southern Africa, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49705-7_12 12 Land Reform and Redistribution as Environmental Justice Frameworks for Post-colonial Africa Munamato Chemhuru Introduction Land reform and redistribution are necessary frameworks for post- colonial Africa’s quest for equality, justice as well as social and economic development through agrarian reform. 1 However, from this discourse, the central question that has not been taken seriously is whether land reform and redistribution exercises and programmes in post-colonial Africa take into account, and solve questions around environmental 1 Te terms land reform and agrarian reform are sometimes misunderstood to mean the same. However, land reform should be understood as being more focussed on the broader land policies aimed at addressing land structures and inequalities in society, while agrarian reform should be understood to refer to agricultural reform in order to increase productivity. In this chapter, I will therefore be more specifcally focussed on land reform as it broadly precedes and implicitly informs agrarian reform. (See also, Moyo 2011, 494). M. Chemhuru (*) Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstatt, Germany Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, Zimbabwe University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa