Rhodesia used to be the largest food supplier in Africa. They had vast fields and orchards, huge herds of cattle, sheep and Goats. Robert Mugabe seized the farms and ranches that were largely white owned. The seized property was given to his soldiers. The farmers were slaughtered, the black farm workers were killed. Everyone that knew anything about farming was killed. The crops were burned in the fields, the orchards were burned to the ground. Even the roots were left a smoking ruin, the huge herds were all killed and the carcasses left to rot.
Predictably Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe fell into famine. But, since Zimbabwe provided food to most of the continent the famine was widespread. Mugabe took his complaints to the UN and complained that white supremacists had destroyed his country's economy.
