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A NOTE TO READERS PUBLISHERS AUTHORS BOOKSHELF enables you to reach interested readers in nearly every country of the
world. Bees for Development endeavours to review as many books on beekeeping and __
development
possible. Send
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your publication to Bees for Development and if suitable we will review it in a future edition of this journal. We may also stock it for sale: we are particularly interested to expand the range of books and visual aids on tropical beekeeping. If you know of a useful text which we do not stock, but you think we should: let us know about it.
An introduction to agroforestry by P K Ramachandran Nair Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The
ICRAF, Kenya (1993) 500 pages. Paperback. Available from Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, PO Box 17, 3300 AA Netherlands in co-operation with
Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Agroforestry has been skilfully practised for centuries, but only recently is there exploration of the underlying principles of these timetested practices and the possibility for scientifically improving them. This denselypacked 500 page book endeavours to cover the major aspects of agroforestry. It is likely to fill the niche for a standard text on this important subject. The main agroforestry systems used in the tropics are discussed and systems used in temperate zones are also included. There is much information on the plant species used for agroforestry, including notes on commonlyused multipurpose trees and shrubs. Other sections cover soil productivity and protection, and design and evaluation of agroforestry
systems. PA.
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hochandiran Naje
Ethiopian honeybee flora:
some 500 common herbs,
shrubs and trees by Reinhard Fichtl and Admasu Addi
Margraf Verlag, Weikersheim, Germany (1994) 550 pages and 600 colour photographs. Paperback. KLawep
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Previously described in Beekeeping & Development 32, we now confirm that the price of this book is 63.00 (See Books to Buy)
Rainforest buffer zones: Guidelines for protected area managers by Jeffrey
Sayer
IUCN, Gland, Switzerland (1991) 104 pages. Paperback. Available from (see
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A buffer zone is defined as "A zone, peripheral a national park or reserve where restrictions are placed upon resource use or special development measures are undertaken to
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enhance the conservation value of the area”. Buffer zones are not new, for example the Corbett National Park in northern India has long enjoyed the physical protection of managed sal Shorea robusta forest; the forest service harvests the timber and local people gather non-wood products in semi-natural forest which provides an extended habitat for the Park's wildlife. Such buffer zones are often excellent areas for beekeeping.
This book gives 58 guidelines for the management of buffer zones around rainforests. These guidelines arise from the examination of 34 case studies of buffer zones reflecting a range of situations: not all were
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successful projects. The author argues that aid agencies’ attempts to work in buffer zones have often failed because projects have been too rigid, too short-term, and too intent on imposing radical changes on people.
Pollen and spores of Barro Colorado Island by David W Roubik and Jorge Enrique Moreno Monographs in Systematic Botany (Volume 36) Missouri Botanical Gardens, St Louis, USA (1991)
268 pages. Paperback. Available from Bees for
Development (see Books to Buy) price 30.00 Barro Colorado Island is in Gatuu Lake in the middle of the Isthmus of Panama in Central America. Why publish a survey of the pollens of this island? Because the whole island has been an undisturbed nature reserve since 1923 and its flora has been fully determined. This study therefore provides the first complete key. and photographic guide to the pollen and spores of an entire tropical forest.
The island has a rich mix of tropical plant species representing both the Atlantic and Pacific coastal zones, lowland Mexico and South America. Many of the 133 families and 683 genera shown here have wide distributions, making this text very useful fo anyone studying neotropical pollen. The boon contains 97 plates providing photographic documentation of 1210 species, and also a key to pollen and spore types. It is not surprising that the work documented here took over 10 years to achieve! The result is a unique document of great value as a reference tool for
palynologists.
Great masters of beekeeping by
Ron Brown
Bee Books New and Old, Bridgwater,
UK (1994)
110 pages. Hardback. Available from
Bees for
Development (sce Books to Buy) price 16.45 Ron Brown discusses the contributions of
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people (30 masters and 2 mistresses actually) who have made important contributions to apiculture, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day. The book combines plenty of beekeeping insight with anecdotes about industrious people who took it upon
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