Zimbabwe's Tobacco Revenue Up in Smoke Due to El Nino

Shouting, sweating and stamping their feet, dozens of farm laborers fill Tinago Chisvo's makeshift office to demand their money, as the tobacco farmer desperately tries to explain the crisis that has hit his farm. Nobody listens. "We don't want to hear stories," bellows one angry laborer. "You must just pay us for the job we did for you!" But Chisvo has no money to give them. Like many of Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers, he ignored warnings of an impending El...

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