As the sweltering morning sun beat down on them, about half a dozen young Zimbabwean women stacked green tobacco leaves into sheaves while another group, some with babies on their backs, loaded the harvested crop onto a tractor.
In a largely male-dominated sector, Michelle Gwatimba, 36, who runs this small farm 200 kms (124 miles) north of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, is not only blazing a trail for women but also provides a livelihood for those who survived violence.
"We realized in the settlements around the farm, where we get most of our staff, there was a lot of gender-based violence," said Gwatimba, whose Tzoro Greenfields farm provides employment to over 80 families, most of them led by women.
