Dr James Mwendwa is an adjunct Research Associate at Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation at Charles Sturt University. He is a passionate agricultural researcher with significant research and hands-on experience in farming systems and particular expertise, experience, and interest in agronomy, crop protection, herbicide resistance, soil nutrition and biological health and function, dryland grain production, crop rotations, physiology, and adaptation. His research interests include crop competition, plant interactions and allelopathy, plant secondary metabolites, crop physiology, agronomy, and sustainable farming strategies.