“There is currently no food in the pipeline for distributions in January and February – just when the crisis is reaching its peak,” said a statement released by The World Food Programme (WFP) in which they requested US$140 million of additional funds to continue their aid project until March.
The WFP estimate that almost half the population of Zimbabwe will require food aid by early 2009 due to a disastrous harvest that many blame on Robert Mugabe’s violent land grabs that forced white commercial farmers from their land.