olive, so now you recognise that there is a drought, all you have to do now is quantify the effects. Droughts in Zimbabwe pre-dates Mugabe and rolling droughts often meant that reserves of grain and food were unable to be replenished before the next drought struck. Sure Mugabe has made mistakes, but if we follow your and gyros reasoning that government policy should have been able to alleviate the effects it indicates you are very naive; and if government policy was the answer then farmers around the world must be wondering why the hell their governments haven't implemented such policies if it was so simple. Mugabe is only a politician, you and gyro seem to consider him equivalent to some sort of god.
