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Firewood fervor may turn Zimbabwe into 'outright desert'

2015-03-05 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Zimbabwe, home to more than 14 million people, is currently facing a severe economic crisis. Under President Robert Mugabes land distribution reforms, in the year 2000 all white-owned commercial farms were forcibly seized for redistribution to landless native Zimbabweans. In February this year, the BBC reported Mugabe had finally admitted his land reforms amounted to badly thought-out land policies. These reforms are thought to be the driving force behind Zimbabwes agriculture-based economys thunderous...

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