Mystery over Zimbabwe’s tobacco levy as forests keep disappearing
Mary Mundeya Harare — For nine consecutive seasons, Serina Matenga, a smallholder tobacco farmer in Headlands, a farming bastion in Manicaland province, has watched the woodland around her homestead recede. Trees that once buffered her fields now vanish year after year, cut to feed tobacco curing barns that keep her livelihood afloat. And for nine…