ZIMBABWE: White farmers offer government one million hectares

White farmers and private financial backers have offered to give the government a million hectares of farmland to resettle landless blacks, the scheme's coordinator, Malcolm Vowles, told IRIN on Thursday. "This is a genuine attempt to break the impasse over land in this country," Vowles said. Zimbabwe's mainly white Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) has been deadlocked in negotiations with the government over the confiscation and violent occupation by black militants of hundreds of white-owned farms.