The problem has become so severe that some farmers are forced to spend as much as R200,000 a month on security guards to patrol their fields.
More than one million people in Zimbabwe are going to need food aid between now and March next year, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). And sadly, the UN agency says it’s going to be short of funding to the tune of around $42 million – money which was intended to provide food to hungry Zim households in the first quarter of 2012.