The UN’s food-aid agencies already had to supply many African countries with emergency-food aid by that year, however. Those countries painted ‘green’ on the FAO 2003 map still had enough affordable food available for their local populations, primarily imported from Zimbabwe and South Africa. At this point South Africa’s commercial farmers were still supplying a whopping 60% of all of Africa’s excess-food production and the UN-food aid agencies were buying up large grain supplies from Zimbabwe and South Africa.
The FAO 2006 hunger map below shows a dramatic deterioration: that year Zimbabwe’s commercial agriculture sector was destroyed in its entirety by the Mugabe-regime and no excess food was being produced. And in neighbouring South Africa, only 13,000 commercial farmers remained on only 0.79% of the entire land surface to produce permanent grain-crops that year. Massive amounts of foreign imports were required to help feed South Africa’s own 46-million people plus the 3-million+ hunger-refugees who had fled there from neighbouring South Africa. South Africa itself now has 4-million people (including 1-million destitute Afrikaner whites) requiring daily food-handouts. South Africa also has more than 23-million people (5-%) living below the breadline of $1 a day, according to the CIA statistics on its countryfile! of Sout h Africa (updated: Nov 14 2007). People in South Africa also experience soaring food prices in 2007, with the price of grain-products rising as much as 25% within the past few months alone due to the need to import vast quantities of much more expensive foreign grain supplies.
