"As a result, food production has plummeted by an estimated 60 percent since 2000 when Mugabe began seizing farms from whites and giving them over to landless blacks."
"For example, an estimated four million people face starvation this year unless more than one million tonnes of food aid is urgently provided."
"Harare was also planning to seize more land from the few remaining white farmers and give it over to the firms."
So, the government, with millions starving, wants to kill the remaining 40% of food production.
I thought the black Africans were hot to use that farm land. I guess this is a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face.
That was before they realized that large scale commercial farming required more technology than scatching at the dirt with a stick, and more capital investment than throwing hundreds of so-call war veterans at the task.
The crop won't magically appear, ready for an easy harvest just because you wish it.