Zimbabwe Tobacco Revival Causes Forests to Go Up in Smoke
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Jeremiah Sarudza stands outside his mud and thatch hut and watches his wife and children prepare a tobacco field surrounded by tree stumps.
The 32-year-old, like most of Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers, relies on wood to cure tobacco, a practice that’s stripping the gently rolling hills and granite outcrops of the country’s northern region of their woodlands.