Zimbabwe's food crisis - 27 June 07

United Nations food agencies have estimated that more than one third of Zimbabwe's population face starvation but the government denies these claims. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports on the growing crisis.

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[flyguyinmotion]

See, all you fools should not have supported the scumbag Mugabe. Ian Smith was a fine leader for Rhodesia. Racist dirt had to have a black man in charge, huh ? Well here you go. Isn't black rule wonderful ? Stupid people !

[looking2003]

Persistant drought my ass. When the white farmers were forced off the land, the blacks came in and tore up the irrigation systems to sell for scrap. Mugambe is the reason people are starving. Handing productive farms over to people that do not have the know how or the capitol to run them. If white people were still in charge of agriculture, Zimbabwe would still be exporting food. Like it did in the days before the land grab.

[witmanslim]

unfrotunatly many of the "war vets" aka dumbass s sold the irrigation pipe left by white eeee for a few bucks. So the poor women in this clip are bustin there ars robber mugabe is to blame. yea yea aljazeera sucks yea yea

[mchigubu]

Dear tak178,

Thanks for the response in which you advise me to wake up. I will! As I wake up, I need some few legitimate answers to a few questions I have. Did Mugabe redistribute White-owned farms to landless Blacks? If he did, he is not racist. Go back 200 years, and read what Cecil Rhodes did to Blacks. he took Black-owned farms & enslaved Blacks. Madness??

[tak178]

Wake up!

This is totally the result of a racist by the name of Mugabe, in the largest land grab in recent African history. Mugabe is ENTIRELY to blame for this madness.

[mchigubu]

Dear RhodesiaFront,

Rhodesia was wealthy?? Ian Smith did not get "sanctions", but endless help from Israel, & all riches were designed for only 20% of the "chosen few". Today, Zimbabwe is facing the worst cruel, satanic, discriminatory, enslaving, humiliating, and illegal "economic sanctions" under the guise of "travel sanctions", imposed by the UK, USA, & the EU. Thanks Youtube & AlJazeera! The global village can see what sanctions are doing to poor Black children in Zimbabwe!

[RhodesianFront]

There was a SURPLUS of cheap food when the country was called Rhodesia. Maize, beef, and sugar were so plentiful they were being exported. Funny how Zimbabwe's food problems only started after land 'reform'.

[mnmlambo]

It is beta to ask the Zimbabwean abt the situations in that country and why they vote for Mugabe I think it is up to them, we might say the elections were not fair but the AU,SADC said they were fair, even UN was there so they like Mugabe.Lets really look for the cause, what we are doing is not the way forward!!!!!!!

[communitywork]

"Until 2 years ago we had too much food, but it was badly and unequally distributed," says Abdolreza Abbassian, secretary of the intergovernmental group for grains trade at the Food and Agriculture Organisation. Today about 850m people, mostly women and children, remain chronically hungry while 1.1 billion are obese or overweight. Food is scarcer now thanks to market liberalisation, which helped to cut excess production and lower stocks

[solfegio]

the reporter is not the usual biased media reporter. well reported. true reporting of zimbabwe. thanks Aljazeera for being an alternative media at a time most media reporters are biased.