Zim has, according to Ms. Buckle, approximately one-third of the acreage under cultivation necessary to feed the country. The good news is that the stable is maize; the bad is that our own surplus is still being pumped into automobile and truck fuel tanks. No seed, no crops.
Any country with 231 million percent inflation no longer has a functioning economy in any normal sense. Barter and the black market must fill the gaps (I note references to American dollars cropping up with increasing regularity) - but you have to have something to sell in the first place. If that has to come from abroad, the problem never goes away, especially if it comes for free.
I wish I could remember the name of the African economist who when asked how we could help starving Africans replied:"Stop sending us stuff."
L