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The social organization of honeybees by
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Northern Bee Books, Hebden Bridge,
UK
(1993 2nd edition) 67 pages. Paperback.
BOOK
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This book is 67 pages long. It can therefore be read in one or two evenings and provides a clear summary of the enormous literature which is available on the honeybee’s social organisation. There are seven chapters and they address: the organisation and structure of the colony; the regulation of colony activities; colony defence, collection of forage, queen and worker production; colony reproduction; and conclusions.
of village men and women - on what sustainable forestry must entail if it is to succeed. This book represents a “customer's view” of development assistance.
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basic needs, encroachment will persist. After all, who are they protecting the trees for?” -
Tanzanian villager.
This book has already been found useful by many students (for this is not the first edition), and beekeepers find that it gives them insight and understanding of what their bees are up to. A very compact, readable and interesting
“We are blamed for destroying the forest. How could we? We are so dependent on forests that we
would die without them But we also need land to
grow food”
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Nepalese villager.
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publication.
“Vhose trees?
people's view of forestry aid
by
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A Hisham, J Sharma,
A Ngaiza with N Atampugre. Panos Publications, London, UK (1992) 192 pages.
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part of its programme of encouraging greater participation in the development debate by people of the South, and of giving a stronger voice to those whose lives are directly affected.
How proyects fall and how
hey could uel eed
How do you protect forests when local people are desperate for fuelwood, fodder and cultivatable land? How do you balance governments’ need for revenue from timber, with international demands for nature conservation? When people are surviving one day at a time, how can you ask them to undertake the long-term investment of growing trees?
After decades of forestry aid, denuded hillsides continue to lose their topsoil and rural women still spend hours gathering the fuel to cook a daily meal. Where have forestry projects gone wrong? Panos commissioned independent teams in Nepal, Tanzania and Sudan to explore how far three different projects are succeeding in involving local people and in meeting their real needs Their reports examine past mistakes and provide a fresh perspective - that
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Panos is an independent organisation working for sustainable development. Whose trees? is
BWIRE
Paperback.
9.45
Unless a project finds ways of reconciling forest protection with the needs of local people for fuel, fodder and land, the battle wi
encroachment will continue
When aid is no help: how projects fail and how they
succeed by
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Madeley
IT Publications, London, UK (1991) 132 pages. Paperback.
12.00 500 million people lack basic necessities and are regarded as the world’s poorest people. Within this huge group there are still great differences in income, with the bottom half much poorer than the top The challenge facing official aid programmes is to assist the poorest
people. This book considers some of the aid projects that have attempted, but have failed, to do this. Case studies from around the world are considered, where well-intentioned projects have totally failed to help the neediest
