The winter wheat crop is not being planted due to farm invasions and due to the issuance Section 8 orders making it a criminal offence for the commercial farmer to continue operations.
Even if a farmer were to be allowed to operate, farms need borrowed capital. What banker will lend money on the strength of a pledge of land and crops that can be confiscated on short notice whenever a Zanu PF bigshot takes it into his mind that he would like to own a farm.
Oh Clive, even a witless idiot could know that famine would hit Zimbabwe with Mugabe's land-grabbing. It's like watching a slow motion, on-coming train wreck and there's nothing to stop it. The elections were Zimbabwe's last hope and of course, that was stolen also. Why should Mugabe and his aides care about famine? They won't starve, not matter how bad it gets. To hell with the people and on to blaming the West and demanding aid, the majority of which won't get to the starving. It's the same old story. God help the innocent Zimbabweans.
The worst thing we could do is to prop him up with assistance.