{"id":3195,"date":"2006-04-21T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T18:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/04\/21\/3195"},"modified":"2006-04-21T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T18:49:13","slug":"zimbabwe-asks-farmers-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/04\/zimbabwe-asks-farmers-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe &#8216;asks farmers to return&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/4932060.stm\" rel=\"external\">BBC:<\/a> Zimbabwe&#8217;s white farmers say they have been invited to apply for land &#8211; in an apparent U-turn by the government which has seized their land.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All but 300 of the 4,000 white farmers have been forced off their land since President Robert Mugabe started his &#8220;fast-track&#8221; land reform in 2000. A farmers&#8217; leader says some 200 applications have already been made and more are coming in.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the reforms have devastated the economy and led to massive hunger. Much of the formerly white-owned land is no longer being productively used &#8211; either because the beneficiaries have no experience of farming or they lack finance and tools. Many farms were wrecked when they were invaded by government supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The government has admitted that the exercise has been beset by corruption. But Mr Mugabe blames Zimbabwe&#8217;s economic problems on a plot by Western countries to topple him.But Mr Mugabe blames Zimbabwe&#8217;s economic problems on a plot by Western countries to topple him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Zimbabwe&#8217;s white farmers say they have been invited to apply for land &#8211; in an apparent U-turn by the government which has seized their land. All but 300 of the 4,000 white farmers have been forced off their land since President Robert Mugabe started his &#8220;fast-track&#8221; land reform in 2000. A farmers&#8217; leader says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}