Land Seizures
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Zimbabwe is threatening to throw the country's remaining 400 white farmers in jail if they don't give up their farms. Zimbabwe is finishing up a policy started in 2000 to seize all land from the country's 4,500 white farmers — in order to correct what are called colonial-era imbalances in ownership.
The program has transformed Zimbabwe from what was called the breadbasket of southern Africa into a country that the U.N. estimates has four million people in need of food. Zimbabwe now has to import what used to be its staple crop — maize. The agricultural upheaval has led to shortages of hard currency, gasoline, medicines and essential imports. Critics say the new black farmers were given land on the basis of political patronage and lack the dedication and resources to be successful.
Zimbabwe is threatening to throw the country's remaining 400 white farmers in jail if they don't give up their farms. Zimbabwe is finishing up a policy started in 2000 to seize all land from the country's 4,500 white farmers — in order to correct what are called colonial-era imbalances in ownership.
The program has transformed Zimbabwe from what was called the breadbasket of southern Africa into a country that the U.N. estimates has four million people in need of food. Zimbabwe now has to import what used to be its staple crop — maize. The agricultural upheaval has led to shortages of hard currency, gasoline, medicines and essential imports. Critics say the new black farmers were given land on the basis of political patronage and lack the dedication and resources to be successful.
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