Zim is going through a period of reduced rainfall, which makes a geat excuse for Mugabe.
Reduced rainfall, drought if you will, is a cyclical occurrance which can be anticipated and planned for by commercial agriculture and my competent agriculture ministries.
The North American prairies are going through a drought but there is no famine.
The Zim farm invasions resulted in crops not being planted and crops which had been planted not being irrigated.
As a result, the dams are full of the water that ought to have been used to irrigate maize crops in the summer just past and wheat crops in the present winter.
ZWNews has a document in doc format which can be downloaded by going to this page:
http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=4591
The document shows green fields right next to brown fields, the green fields are commercial farm land which has not yet been invaded and the brown ones are the ones occupied by squatters.
This is a drought that starts and stops at boundary fences.