These obstacles include but are not limited to: inflation, dependency ratios, high unemployment rates, and SAP failures.
[1] In addition to this, the Zimbabwean government, NGOs within Zimbabwe and international actors have numerous different strategies they want to implement within the nation in order to increase economic growth.
Restrictive laws implemented by former powers were removed and this allowed all Zimbabwean citizens to move into urban areas.
Drought is a huge contributing factor to Zimbabwe's national famine and it occurs often, it results in the decrease of food-stocks & cash flow coming into the country.
The measures implemented resulted in the closure of numerous factories, unemployment and increased consumer prices.
With poverty rates being at the highest it as ever been, in 2008, life expectancy within the nation reached an all time low of 37 years old, as opposed to age 61 at independence in 1990.
Production levels were extremely low because the new farmers lacked financial resources, equipment and practice.
Recently, inflation has exceptionally high some citizens refer to the currency as valueless and actually turn down money from the WFP, longing for food instead.
"[2] James Morris, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP), stated he was "personally overwhelmed," about the hunger crisis when visiting Zimbabwe in June, 2004.
Lastly, the Opposition Movement for Democratic Change is convinced the government plans to use food as a political tool in order to sway voters.
[2] With an evident pattern, in November, 2008, Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwe's Movement of Democratic Change, stated that "a million Zimbabweans could starve to death in a year.
In addition to the government offering affordable, subsidized meals to the community, the government has made promises to distribute monthly rations and spend 180 million Zimbabwe dollars a month on subsidies in order to keep foods such as maize meal at a stable price by January of 2020.