Who provide capital to the small farmers in Zimbabwe since 1980
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Zimbabwe's government, buffeted by a deepening economic and social crisis, is being hurried by land-hungry small farmers to resolve a century-old problem of African landlessness, just as key aid donors have reacted coolly to its land redistribution programme. The plan aims to resettle tens of thousands of people on land originally seized from indigenous groups by British colonists, and thereby help redress economic imbalances between the country's blacks and whites.
But after vocal donor opposition when the plan was launched in September, the government, following many closed-door consultations, agreed to temporarily scale it back.
The government continues to insist, however, that the current distribution of land is both unjust and a source of political instability, pointing to the unauthorized occupations of white-owned land in recent months by groups of squatters.