Dear friends

Starting in 1991 the Newsletter will be published four times a year. It will provide you with more news, more frequently. To continue receiving the Newsletter you must send the subscription now.

The subscription charge arises as a consequence of ODA’s new Strategy for Research on Renewable Natural Resources, which is removing core-funding from IGRA and other ODA core-funded associated bodies.

The purpose of the Newsletter is to provide information on low-cost sustainable beekeeping. Our concern is that the introduction of the subscription charge will mean that those who have greatest need no longer have access to the information. We are making every effort to keep costs as low as possible, and to keep payment methods simple. The annual subscription rate is £10. We understand that readers in some developing countries will have difficulty in obtaining foreign currency. However there is usually someone within a community who can arrange for UK payments to be made. If beekeepers form local groups to arrange payment and distribution, then we will send copies to one address, making these available at the reduced rate of £50 for ten subscriptions (ie 40 copies in all).

For those living where foreign exchange is totally unavailable, we may even accept payment by beeswax in lieu of currency! Find out how on page 3 .

Please complete and return the form on the back page of this issue. Our hope is that we will receive sufficient numbers of subscriptions to allow us to continue publication.

Please support us in this work.

Nicola Bradbear Editor

Helen Jackson Assistant

PS: Don’t delay in sending your subscription — unless we hear from you, your name will be removed from our mailing list.

I hope another organisation will give financial assistance and out project will continue to obtain the interesting and practical Newsletter

Eduardo Gil Mora, Peru.

You effort over the past years with the support from ODA has been an important input to the limited information currently available on beekeeping activities throughout the tropics and subtopics

James Macdonald, Agricultural Officer, Apiculture Program, Canada.

We are unhappy that the Newsletter will be out of print in April 1991. The Third World will be pressed deeper into trouble of no appropriate information as before.

John O Kwoba, Kenya.

It is indeed bad news for us who have been receiving the Newsletter and charts from the very beginning and have derived much profit from the beekeeping news supplied by you.

K D Mukherjee, India.

I hope IBRA will be able to find the funding needed to continue the Newsletter which I find very helpful.

Lorenzo Z Gaston, Philippines.

I value Newsletter and have filed all my back copies. It contains more kernels of wisdom per page than many academic journals.

D McKinnon, Zimbabwe.

The Newsletter is preforming an important role which should not be allowed to die. It is the main source, and even the only source, available for many of us. Thus we eagerly look forward to each edition with its new information.

Anthony Shadere, Nigeria.