Invasiveness and the impacts of introduced plants are known to be mediated by plant-microbe interactions. Yet, the microbial communities associated with invasive plants are generally poorly understood. Here we report ...

Understanding the contributions of abiotic and biotic conditions to soil microbial diversity, structure, and function, remains a central focus in soil biology and biogeochemistry. Here we aim to determine how geography and ...

Plant-microbe interactions mediate both the invasiveness of introduced plant species and the impacts that they have in invaded ecosystems. Although the phylogenetic composition of the rhizospheric microbiome of Acacia ...

This article analyses the debate on water reform that took place in the fourth Parliament of Zimbabwe leading up to the enactment of the Water Act [Chapter 20: 24] and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) ...

Perceptions about urban agriculture in Zimbabwe have changed significantly since 1980. Before independence urban agriculture was generally prohibited. In Harare minor concessions were made in relation to land set aside for ...

Since independence in 1980, agricultural land reform in Zimbabwe has been and continues to receive extensive discussion, although the question of how the distributed land will be governed has not been spelt out adequately. ...

The water law reform begun In 1998 in Zimbabwe reopens many issues about the analysis of availability of water resources for agriculture as well as issues about which farmers will gain and keep rights to use the water. ...