On 26 Apr 2003 09:14:42 GMT, wrote:

someone wrote:-

3. Evidence on the impact of land reform in Zimbabwe
A panel survey of resettlement households started in 1983 shows
clearly that resettled
households' well-being has improved dramatically over the past 20
years: imes as high;
see table 1).
The 70,000 households which have so far benefited from land
redistribution, represent
about 5% of the peasant farmer population, but produce between 15
and 20% of the
marketed output of maize and cotton, while also largely satisfying
their own food
consumption needs (Moyo, 1995).
Redistribution efforts so far (3.2 million ha) have had no
negative impact on large-scale
commercial farm output, given the extent of underutilization of
arable land in the large-
scale commercial farm sector.
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Well their are short term benefits in enabling families to employ
themselves in subsistance farming.

This is a rather dishonest comment, to say the least. Clearly Mr.
Glur wants us to believe that the short-term effects of violent,
uncompensated transfers of land from competent farmers to incompetent
thugs are somehow merely the long-term effects of orderly and
compensated transfers from larger to smaller competent farmers.

-- Roy L