As he drives out into the dusty fields of Kandahar province keeping one eye open for the Taleban, Harry Spies can’t help daydreaming sometimes about the farm he used to have in Zimbabwe.

Three years after he gave up on Africa, Mr Spies is one of a number of white farmers who have brought their knowledge of agriculture, and experience of guerrilla warfare, to the opium fields of southern Afghanistan.

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