BEEKEEPING AND DEVELOPMENT 35
BEEKEEPING COURSES IN FRENCH APICULTURE SANS FRONTIERES evaluates and supervises beekeeping projects in developing countries. This summer ASF is organising courses in:
1-14 July 1995 in the
ASF Centre, Mons, Belgium For more information contact:
Apiculture sans Frontieres, c/o Dr Bierna Michel, Veterinary Doctor, Rue Franche 24, 7020 Nimy Belgium Tel: 32 65 31 74 94 Fax: 32 65 31 61 06
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), one of 16 International centres of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was established in 1993. It is located in Bogor, Indonesia and has research programmes in all three tropical regions. CIFOR now seeks to recruit outstanding scientists to lead research programmes on the social, political and economic dimensions of forest conservation and management. Candidates should have the ability to work in multi-cultural and interdisciplinary environments and a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues in tropical country research systems. Special emphasis is being given to building a research team in the following fields:
sustainable harvesting and marketing of non-timber forest products; livelihoods of people living in and near forests; macroeconomic and sectoral policies including those outside the forestry sector, and their impacts on rural poverty, economic growth and incentives for forest management and deforestation; valuation and accounting of forest goods and services; the process of forest policy change, reform and adoption. Candidates should posses
a
PAD in a relevant field.
CIFOR, PO BOX 6596, JKPWE, JAKARTA 10065, INDONESIA A Bees for Development publication
read with interest in BGD34 that there is a law against the use of insecticides in the daytime in Denmark. 1
Here in Bolivia we are not so fortunate. One of my neighbours has taken to fumigating his soya bean crops by aeroplane. In January he sprayed over my apiary causing much damage (see photo), but he is claiming that the damage was caused by my bees visiting his fields of soya bean which were in flower at the time.
He ignored that fact that he is obliged to warn me in advance of spraying to allow me time to close or move my hives. Two weeks ago he sprayed again, this time with a defoliant clear in the left was evidence vegetation surrounding my apiary. I am pushing my case with the Ministries of Agriculture, Aviation and Health. If this sort of abuse does not stop there is little future for beekeeping in the Santa Cruz region. Remarkably, the Ecological Organization in Santa Cruz was the Jeast helpful of everyone have consulted so far. |
PETER O'BRIEN
GENERAL, TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL BEEKEEPING
Peter O'Brien, Bolivia To continue the good pesticide story started in BGD34, next a list of pesticides with little harm to honeybees and less toxic to humans would be useful. Also a list of pesticides which are no longer approved in the North, but are still marketed in the South, would be very helpful and find distribution beyond the beekeeping community. This information is almost impossible to come by for focal farmers, extension agents or beekeeping associations, other NGOs or environmental groups. have been asked repeatedly without ever being able |
to give an answer.
Rainer Krell, Italy Ed: Is there an answer?
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