Zimbabwe is a land blessed by nature. In 1980, the Jewel of Africa was also the breadbasket of Africa, possessing abundant human and natural resources, a beautiful climate, the best education and medical system on the continent. As independence began, it also had a popular international leader in the freshly elected Robert Mugabe.

Now that nation is a basketcase. Total wheat production over the past nine years was 313,000 metric tons. Compare this to the production for only a single year, 1990, when it produced over 325,000 metric tons.