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This is something that has not been considered. The Shona are the majority in Zimbabwe. The Shona were traditionally an agricultural people. They grew crops like sorghum, bananas, beans, yams, groundnuts, etc. People knew how to farm. During the time of Rhodesia, Blacks were basically given the short end of everything. The majority of Blacks couldn't vote. During the rule of the British Empire, Land ownership was determined by race. Whites got more land allocated to them, and the best land was allocated to Whites. Blacks who were able to get land were allotted the low veld (which is only suitable for livestock, not growing food crops), and a section of the high veld (which was better, but mainly for grain). Even when there were laws to rectify the problem, corruption and abuse took place. Land reform issues have been a major problem in Zimbabwe going back to the early days of Rhodesia. Rhodesia was a bread basket, but Blacks got the short end of the sticks. Taking away land from Whites hasn't made anything better.
While land discrimination was a major problem that needed to be rectified, there is nothing problem no one has mentioned. Dependence. There are alot of people who do not know how to the work the land, never learned how. Long before colonialism, people knew how to work the land and grow food for themselves. No one starved.
maybe the folks most concerned with the potential of famine would just move out and let the remaining people figure out how to avoid starvation. If starvation does thin the herd maybe there will be few enough left to survive on the remaining farm production.
Note- most of the farmland in that area is used to produce fiber and beef for export and not for grains for food.
Zimbabwe is the largest producer of tobacco in Africa. If more food was grown instead of tobacco, there wouldn't be famine.
Marondera – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 93, has threatened to embark on fresh land grabs targeting the few white commercial farmers still remaining in the country
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