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just heard that an application ty IRBEA to the ODA Book Presentasuccessful, and this will enable libraries in 20 developing countries to receive a collection of beekeeping books and pamphlets. We
tion
have
Programme has been
for Africa
for Tropical Asia
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This is splendid news, and will help to fill one of the greatest needs for the develooment of in the tropics: access to up-to-date apiculture are reference material. There larger collections of books and journals at the three Franches cf the IPRA Li brary: RAP,
Central
Kenya
Institute, Village Industries Commission,
Deccan Gymrhana, Pune 411904, India
Institute of Tanagawa 194
Fairobi,
Bee Pesearch
Khadi and 8359/1
for Eastern Asia
Box 30786,
PO
Japan
Honeybee
Science,
‘niversity, Machida-shi,
Tokyo,
A NEW PROJECT FUNDED BY FDPC
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The Internationa! Development Pesearch Council PRC), Cttawa, will be familiar to most readers as the agency that funded che. ibliography of Tropical Apiculture conviled hy Tr. Fva Crane and the staff at IPPA, and Over 400 institutions in 95 developing ccuntries have published in 1972. requested this Fibliography and it has been sent to them free of charge, thanks’to IDRC. Some institutions also aprlied for photocopies of articles, and for one or more of the 14 Satellite Fibliopraphies. IPFA still has a limite? number of the 24 Parts of the Bibliography for free distribution, and both the Eitliography and the Satellite Eitliocgraphies can be vurchased. Cetails can be supplied on apnlication.
In budgeting for photocopies in the O4 appointment, the demand was underestimated. ODA
for
funding in connection with my We have applied successfully to
extension cf their allocation for phctoccpies,
an
so we are
still
to supply them, but each applicant shall be limited to 40 copied pages in
akle
total.
very well the waste of effort and reserves brought about by in countries are so often Beekeepers developing thwarted because they do not know where to get epecific equipment - for instance queen excluders or a foundation press to suit their local bees. They may need contects in different courtries through «whom they might sell honey or beeswax. Teachers want te now about useful -tooks and educational aids. And a great many young beekeepers want to attend a training course, and may need funds in order to do so. IBRRA
knows
lack of information.
In April a new grant was awarded by IDPS to IPRA, to prepare and distri-~ bute (on the same lines as ROTA) a series of leaflets on Source Materials for
Aviculture.
