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Original Post Date: 2003-01-10 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 1/10/2003 2:28:27 PM
Zimbabwe Food Supply situation to worsen
Harare – Zimbabwe appears headed for another season of food shortages in 2003-2004 with poor rains and reduced plantings likely to dent output, a U.S.-based food monitoring organization said Thursday. Although Zimbabwe was once the bread basket of southern Africa, sharply reduced domestic food production has forced the country into dependence upon food aid, and nearly half Zimbabwe’s estimated 14 million people now face starvation. In its latest update on the situation in Zimbabwe, the Famine Early Warning System Network known as FEWSNET said below-average rains ranging from 40 to 60 percent of normal, as well as hot, dry weather in late 2002 had cut plantings and exerted extreme stress on the staple maize crop already in the ground. “If things do not improve, food security will once again be of major concern in 2003-2004,” the group said, adding that “the (weather) prospects for 2002-03 are beginning to look quite gloomy.”
The country’s worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1980 is blamed on both drought and President Robert Mugabe’s controversial seizure of land from minority whites for redistribution to landless blacks. Agriculture industry officials say local producers lack agricultural basics, such as seed and fertilizers, with the current October to March growing season already well underway. To compound their problems, an El Nino weather pattern threatens to dry up the remaining half of the growing season for much of southern Africa. Aid agencies say the food situation in most rural areas has continued to deteriorate with rising shortages of basic commodities such as maize meal, sugar, flour and bread. “The government should review and improve the efficiency of its grain distribution system. Procurement and distribution of food aid needs to be stepped up urgently in order to address the growing unmet food needs of rural households,” FEWSNET said.
In signs of growing political strains over food supplies in Zimbabwe, a mob tried to storm the state Grain Marketing Board depot in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo last Friday, prompting riot police to fire teargas and arrest 34 people. The United Nations World Food Program says it still needs some $190 million to fund its current southern African food relief project, covering Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland and due to last until the end of March. Mugabe’s government says the Zimbabwe shortages are due solely to the drought which has hit small-scale black farmers who account for 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s annual maize output.
Source:CNN
Published:Thu 9-Jan-2003
URL: http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID…br>