Zimbabwe imports corn from once-poor Zambia
Zambia’s state food reserve agency said the sale would reduce its food surplus by half.
A decade ago, Zimbabwe exported food to Zambia. The reversal of fortunes came after Zimbabwe’s often violent seizure of thousands of white-owned commercial farms, which disrupted the agriculture-based economy and drove many white farmers into Zambia.
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Hide AdIn November, the United Nations said 1.5 million Zimbab-weans would need food aid through 2012 and appealed for £160 million in donor funding to buy it.
Since 2000, about 4,500 white farmers have been forced out by a land redistribution programme that president Robert Mugabe said was intended to correct colonial-era imbalances.