AdvertisementTo Ease An Economic Meltdown, Zimbabwe Considers Returning FarmlandAugust 01, 2015NPR StafffacebookEmailA farm owner inspects his tobacco crop in the sun. While Zimbabwe's tobacco production has made something of a turnaround lately, journalist Peta Thornycroft says much of the country's troubles since 2000 have been tied to failures in its capital-intensive tobacco farms. (Reuters/Landov)