The bees and us
by NORMA TSOPO IT IS A quiet partnership, easily overlooked. Yet for millennia, bees and people have shared a connection that has shaped diets, landscapes and local economies.
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A bug’s life, a farmer’s ruin
STAFF WRITER IN THE time it takes to read this sentence, another tonne of maize, wheat or beans will have been devoured by an enemy that never sleeps.
Manicaland Bets on Pine Resin to Douse Old Conflicts
by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR decades, the vast pine plantations of Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands have been a landscape of latent wealth and recurring loss.