this is news africa coming out in the next 15 minutes after more than 20 years of isolation zimbabwe is trying to boost its economy by reconnecting with international community with another land grab case poking its head around the country convince the world that it's ready for business. so what do you want to do you want to. show me what you want to do my land according to the over there. also coming out. across africa going out the phosphate that is booming

business what cost to the iranians could be looking at a situation in my life. it's great to have you on the show now zimbabwe's president a muslim and on god go house promised white farmers stop land grabs belong to the past 2 decades after a bedbug obvious governments began season redistributing the country's prime farmland the new movie is designed to reassure the international community. and the rupee and union begin talks about feuds how ties. in zimbabwe's east. he is still being targeted you know if you correspondent david was shown that are you visited to follow the states and the district in my province and filed this report . but we don't have the same creature has appeared in court 8 times

over the past 4 months this in dublin farmer faces charges of refusing to make way for the son of the eastern province money and provincial minister ellen zimmer. so what you want to do is go 229 yes show me the 203 what do you what do you want to do my land according to the internet. and reach it has lived with and sit in it of losing their $1000000.00 investment in our country packaging fick tree and located on the land in question we are now in the peak time of our export program and it's been extremely distracting to have to deal with these matters all over again when this should not be happening at all. subtle cause he states is one of the most productive farms in the country it is situated in zimbabwe's

a remote eastern corner close to the border with more some peak is to excise standards if anybody's to export produce around the world. this is a cough ill avocado potted plant is families in 201586 wanting about a 1000 pounds i will add those 2 fronts despite the challenges that zimbabwe is facing relayed in the last 3 months on compile them coming here at the farm on with an offer that they say they were given by government to all get by about a half of the land that you want to buy the in-state but if that is allowed to happen in britain the lives who were before about 600 without what employed in different operations at least the state. last week president of the cabinet passed

a decision to stop fresh lent occupations unproductive funds in light of the disturbances if i feel you states it's not our policy is governments to hound businesses it's not all police to disrupt productive plants is not our police to do to disrupt all. lands or property however the commission farmers union of zimbabwe ses government should fix land ownership policies and put a stop to acquisition of remaining productive farms we'd like to see this become policy clearly we've asked for a moratorium many times in the past and it would send a positive signal any time there is an interruption on productive land clearly. it sends a negative message at the present time zimbabwe's lend reforms if it wanted the

country much of the redistributed lent is either underutilized or completely idle for fun like richard protection of property rights is important for security of tenure. joining me now is our correspondent privileged shuttered from zimbabwe privilege thanks for joining us now your reports it's on the alleged land keys involving money province minister now what about this triggered government response . here's the case has been going for 4 months and. orlando occupiers have been coming to 5 states. several times wanting to take their law to one of their land so. houston last week the cabinet said and made it decision to say that their farms should not be taxed and also the productive farms

should be protected because they are bringing in foreign currency through the exports that they are bringing to their country. now what was unique about this particular keys that drew this response from the government. there the issue is that where zimbabwe is it at the moment is in a process of reengaging with the international community and also they call on me is not fulfilling very we'll so if there is a productive land that is exporting like fuck you the government is saying that it should be supported and this has been welcomed by even economists even farmers organizations they are welcoming this move saying that they have been calling for the protection of consent because they support they call on me. now you mentioned the dialogue between zimbabwe and the european union has begun its you support that zimbabwe desperately needs to revamp its economy now what can you tell us

about this and. why is that a priority for your. yeah you know it is that political dialogue between the e.u. and zimbabwe in 2002 that was the last time they had a dialogue so this coming at this time it is very important for the government because government needs to reengage because something is in badly they really need international support when it comes to kick start seeing and reforming they call on me which is constrained at the moment and this is coming it airs couric time and. better time to engage with the international community. and clearly is a big deal is them by the way in helping straightening the economy to some light on that how important really is it. zimbabwe economy is mainly

dependent on agriculture over the years since the eighty's zimbabwe was regarded is the bread basket of africa so if you look at its. big good since 2000 when the land reform happened agriculture had gone down so it's a revival he's very important for the zimbabwean economy and. right now you find that many people are having to beg for food even for international support to get support but that never used to have been previously. thank you very much privileged from zimbabwe many thanks for that time. now today is weld environment state it is a reminder to protect vironment across africa's areas cities are growing and fast one raw material is especially in high demand sun and in malawi this is leading to

growing land use disputes and threatens the you're closest of our correspondent reports from saying. lake malawi is one of the largest water bodies in africa it's a vital source of fish and it's your wrist attraction but it is also under threat. more and more of its famous sandy beaches vanishing as the highly coveted sand is removed even though this is forbidden. all over the beach you can clearly see the damages of feel equal sand mining the sand has taken over here obviously there waiting for somebody to pick it up in the larger scale and on top of it you can feel the sand is very soft but a little bit further down you find the hardest sand that has pos of stones inside and this is the sand that is ideal for construction. these children loading an ox cart with sand quickly leave as we start filming.

you know people. who are going to they say the santas for their parents were building a house. but only a few blocks away it's clearly visible how money is made with the booming santa business a truckload of sand sells for the equivalent of $120.00 euros nobody wants to talk to us on camera so we film secretly the sellers say this is the only way they can earn enough to make ends meet is that morning taking a stand is not allowed we just get it from the beach it's not easy because it's illegal we usually get into trouble with the beach owners or with the police cement alluding owns a guest house on the lake has been observing the increase in the eagle sand mining for years she thinks the lake can withstand the loss of a few ox carts full now and then but not all truck loads on a daily basis they taking every day they were taking 50 tons they're doing it from

. the beach in front of her a guest house is still intact because there's no excess or wrote but she's worried about the future although clear laws are in place new dick says the authorities don't enforce them enough. they're reacting extremely smoothly when i say they're not reacting that would be a lie they are reacting but it's about having meetings about having meetings you meet with the local chiefs the traditional authorities then you have to meet again with this other stakeholders which is environmental departments mining departments trying to get everybody together is extremely difficult the environmental officer did get a stop loss order but the police have not acted on that stop or the local commissioner is aware of the problem and has promised to deal with it but he wants it won't be easy to find a solution that's acceptable to all parties. we are now well seeing that

the situation in these overwhelming. so indeed maybe a for other people they might to see if we do that to you west road to go in that one but the procedures of before but scientists warn that the time is running out the lakes water quality is endangered and that has a serious impact on fish stocks you have different fish species that do well and breed well in shallow waters so the depending of the of the shows will i think those fishes and do obviously go into decline in the short term most people just look at the immediate gains the money they get suddenly and in the long term start feeling the impacts and will start seeing things in future which is when people will start reacting and that will be too late. meanwhile cement alluding once to offer an alternative jobs to the local sandra movers. she thinks it's the

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