[valkyrieanne]

"The World Food Program estimated nearly half the country's 12.5 million people would need food assistance this year. The crisis was caused by dry weather and the often violent seizure of land by Mugabe loyalists on the commercial farms, which are about five times more productive than small-scale farms, the WFP said."

Sow salt and *get out.*

[mvpel]

Reminds me of "Atlas Shrugged." Sowing salt would definitely be the John Galt thing to do there, the Francisco d'Anconia thing to do. Let them eat their stolen dirt. Odds are that this former breadbasket will wind up receiving food aid from other "People's States" around the world.

[HetLoo]

Did somebody say "scorched earth"?