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White farmers in Zimbabwe say they're getting poorer and sicker following a farmland eviction in 2000, activists sayBy Robert Valencia On 12/4/18 at 6:17 PMWhite farmers in Zimbabwe who were evicted from their properties years ago have been experiencing a drop in food production, and their hope to get government financial help to compensate any losses caused by land seizures is slowly dimming, according to some activists."The average age of farmers at the peak of land reform was around 55. Now the vast majority are over 70 and many are unable to work. Thus the need for settlement is very real. Sadly, many have died without [a] settlement and others are facing extreme hardship," said Ben Gilpin, director of the Commercial Farmers Union, according to a report from South African newspaper Sunday Times published this week. In 2000, war veterans evicted at least 4,500 white farmers. They need at least $72 million in reparations given that the effects of farm seizures are still felt to date, the publication reported. Ben Freeth, a former white farmer who was kicked out of his citrus farm in 2009 and is now a land-rights activist, said that farmers had taken small compensation packages from the government out of desperation.Read more at: https://www.newsweek.com/white-farmers-zimbabwe-getting-poorer-compensation-farm-seizures-1244569