What racist laws they have...
Seriously though, has their food production been better or worse since they started doing this?
I know a guy who had his farm taken a few years ago by them, and he occasionally flies over it in his little Cessna to check it out. He says the fields are unused and the buildings are run down and falling apart.
They took farms and no one's bothering to run them.
He lives across the river in Zambia now and is hoping that cases that have been dragging through the World Court will somehow get him his land back... but he's not holding his breath.
The land grabs from the white farmers has destroyed Zimbabwe's food economy. People are starving in what used to be one of the most productive "bread baskets" in Africa.
**has their food production been better or worse since they started doing this?**
just to supplement several answers,
“In 1998, Zimbabwe had 3.2 million hectares (7.9 million acres) of arable land, covering 8% of the country’s total land area. Most of what is now central Zimbabwe was sparsely populated when Europeans first settled into the region, gradually transforming the bush into fertile farmland...About 63% of the economically active population was engaged in agriculture in 1999.
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Zimbabwe-AGRICULTURE.html#ixzz3PijCgpW7
From page 1 of a report dated 2011: “Over the
last decade or so, traditional surpluses in agricultural products and industrial raw materials have either diminished
or disappeared turning Zimbabwe into a net importer of agricultural products. “ [diversity of exports have also declined]