In Issue 106

ISSUE No 106 March 2013

In this issue

Practical beekeeping – Foundation.... 3

Forest conservers ........................... 6

Tree Bees Use.................................. 7

Bees for prosperity........................... 8

Seed freedom.................................. 9

Profitability, productivity and sustainability in beekeeping............ 10

Response to Warré experience in Africa......................................... 12

Response to Latin America’s path to sustainable beekeeping.................. 12

Smoking hives............................... 13

Pesticides kill bees in Ethiopia........ 14

Recent research............................. 15

Notice Board.................................. 15

News around the World ................. 16

Look and Learn Ahead................... 17

Bookshelf....................................... 18

A trader carries a live honey bee colony in his USAID bag on the road to Keren in the western Eritrean highlands

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