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INSIDE INFORMATION As

we go to press, the most important international meeting on hunger for 20 years is about to begin in Rome. This is The World Food Summit, convened by the United Nations Food

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and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The last Food Summit took place 22 years ago. At that Summit Henry Kissinger famously vowed that world hunger would 6e eradicated “within ten years”.

This Summit will agree more modest, and perhaps attainable aim, to halve the number of hungry by 2015. And this at a time when 90 million mouths are being added to the world’s a

population each year.

The big question is: how do we halve the number of hungry?

Some believe that food security is attainable by the United States providing grain reserves for the world. But the world already produces enough food for all of us - yet still 840 million people go hungry. The real cause of hunger is not lack of food, but lack of money to buy it.

Apimondia Gold 1989, Bronze 1993

Poverty is the problem. Every country needs to be producing its own food, to have food security. Lasting food security will come from solutions that are not capital intensive. These allow people to work with their own local resources to produce their own food.

Beekeeping is just one of many ways that rural people can create income from the natural resources around them. It is one of the small solutions that can contribute to answering the

big question.

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Inside Information

Practical Beekeeping

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News around the

Investing Money in Honey............... 7

AAA

Conference in Vietnam............. 8

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NEWS FROM NJIRO A bee smoker appropriate for African conditions by

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O Koisianga

INTRODUCTION A smoker is a very important tool used when beekeepers and honey hunters work with bees.

In its modern shape it is metal container filled with smoke-giving material and a ows to produce the air flow. It is necessary ~emoke honeybees before the colony is touched. The smoke is puffed into the colony and the bees sense it. They move back to the combs and concentrate on eating honey. The most commonly accepted theory about smoke is that it breaks the communication within the colony and causes bees to engorge themselves with nectar or honey. Thus they prepare to abandon the hive and avoid the source of the smoke. The result of smoking bees is that they become less defensive and less likely to sting. a

THE PROBLEM Many modern smokers are unable to calm African bees. These modern smokers need refuelling inconveniently often when working with African bees. When used intensively they produce a hot blue smoke that burns the bees and makes them aggressive. The modern okers are also too expensive for poor keepers.

Tanzania three types of smokers are used by beekeepers: traditional smokers; locally made, modern style smokers; and imported smokers.

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Traditional smokers Honey gatherers smoke bees when harvesting honey. Some of these gatherers burn pieces of plant or fruit to produce smoke Some cut branches and grass They make a fire on the

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ground directly beneath the colony so that the smoke blows in the direction of the colony.

Honey collecting this way is done usually ona dark night. This gives the beekeeper some defence against the angry bees. However these traditional methods can cause forest fires and also harm the bees and make them abscond.

These methods are still used by honey hunters and beekeepers.

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Locally made, modern style smokers According to reports from beekeepers, locally made smokers are neither efficient nor durable. They claim that these smokers give hot smoke that makes bees more vicious instead of calming them. At the same time the smoker itself becomes very hot and becomes difficult to hold. This is due to use of the wrong type of tin in making the smoker body.

However we have seen some smokers made locally from scrap material that work very well The problem is that their volume is too small.

Imported smokers Many imported smokers are unable to calm African bees. These European-style, modern smokers are durable and efficient but expensive: beekeepers cannot afford to buy them. Most imported smokers are also small and therefore burn out quickly and need to be re-filled.

Mr Koisianga with fis ideal smoker

THE OBJECTIVE We have seen how each smoking method has disadvantages. The objective of this project was to test and develop an appropriate bee smoker for African conditions, and to recommend the best materials to use as fuel.

TRADITIONAL SMOKER MATERIALS

Place in Tanzania

Tribe

Smoker material

Zanzibar Kondoa

Waswahili Wasandawe

A thick sisal rope

Arusha/Kilimanjaro

Wameru/Wachaga

Coconut shell with natural fibres

Kiteto/Simanjiro Dodoma

Puff balls (a type of fungi) Waarusha/Wamasai Dry stick of Commiphora africana (osilalei) Cow dung in local bee smoker of Botswana type Wagogo

Many parts of Tanzania

Many tribes

A bunch of dry grass, sticks or leaves wrapped in green leaves

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The optimum volume for a bee smoker

Smoker Number

19 18cm

Volume (litres)

Average time smoke lasted (minutes)

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1.6

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2.1

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2.1

Average

1.9

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(High) (Wide)

71

60

METHODS a) Three types of bellow springs of different heights were tested:

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An ideal smoker is one that produces plenty of cool smoke for a long time yet without . threatening to cause fires. Therefore the objectives were:

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Three volumes of smoker were tested with fuels. The results show that the

smoker with the volume 2.1 litres is @®

the most appropriate

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10

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To study the quality of the smoke produced and its acceptance by both beekeepers and bees.

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(high)

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FIGURE 3 Eight

types of smoking materials were

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cm

cm

b) Four containers of different volume were

tested of leather were tested for types durability. d) The costs for making these different designs of smokers were compared. e) Eight types of smoker fuel were tested. c)

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Of the three types of spring tested, spring (I) was easiest to work and most durable. The others were too hard. As a result the operator of the smoker became tired. These hard a only period before springs for short lasted the returning mechanism spring became weak due to hard pressure from the operator.

@ Soft and hard pieces of leather

@ Durable tin of

(I)

13.0 x 10.5 x 3.5 cm

Spring

Cheap, locally available were materials selected. The materials required for making and using a smoker are:

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12.0x94x3.5

RESULTS

MATERIALS

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(I)

1

piece of wood

mm thickness 19.

cm x

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Container

cm

Table

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shows the results for each container

tested. The results show that elephant

dung is the best material used 130

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100

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Comparison of smoker materials

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Elephant dung

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Papaya fibres Mixture (of dried leaves, sacks and cow dung) Cow dung

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Not easy to find Needs to be prepared from the dried papaya trunk

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Needs to be prepared Needs to be prepared

Rice husks

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Produce sparks

Pieces of sack (hessian or burlap, made of sisal fibre) Maize cobs

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Wood shavings

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Difficult to light Sometimes produce a bad smell!

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good smoker filled with the right fuel will produce plenty of mild, cool smoke over a

with a range of smoking materials.

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Material The different types of leather materials tested were hard, medium hard and soft. A suitable leather was the soft one especially goat or calf leather. The hard side of the leather should be outwards and the wood pieces should be polished to avoid any sharp edges.

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ANDERSON,R H, BUYS,B; JOHANNSMEIER,M P (1983)

this test the cost of making each tha

despite the materials used being slightly different.

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aight smoker materials tested were harmless to beekeepers and bees (no side effects observed). The materials differed in the length of time they produced cool smoke

(Table 3).

CONCLUSIONS 1.

Asmoker that produces smoke for more than one hour should be considered

satisfactory.

2.

3.

Disadvantages were noted for rice husks (produced sparks), sacks (often contaminated with chemicals), maize cobs (difficult to light), and wood shavings (extremely short smoking time and bad smell).

still difficult to find a workshop in Tanzania that can produce quality smokers that last many years. To develop a good smoker is easy in theory but to have them prepared on a large-scale to benefit poor beekeepers is very difficult!

It is

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS express my sincere gratitude to our research co-ordinators, Mr Stephen Liseki and Mr Bérje Svensson for their help with my project.

Many thanks also to the Director, Mr Liana Hassan for his constructive opinions and logistical support.

Field attendants and beekeepers in the field played a good role in evaluating the smokers. Many thanks to my wife Joan for taking my responsibility at home when was out collecting data for this project.

Thank you to all my co-workers, who in many ways facilitated my work. |

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Beekeeping in South Africa.

Department of Agricultural Technica! Services Bulletin no 394, Pretoria, South Africa.

CRANE,E

(1990)

Bees and beekeeping:

science, practice and world resources.

Heinemann Newnes, Oxford, United Kingdom

FREE,] B (1982) Bees and mankind.

George Allen & Unwin, London, United Kingdom.

GOULD] L; GOULD,C

G (1988)

Scientific American Library, New York, USA

The honey bee.

KIGATIRA,K (1988) |

Nairobi, the author.

Kenya, published by Beekeeping for beginners.

Both smokers (3) and (4) in Table 2 burned for more than one hour. Smoker (3) is very tall in shape and smoker (4) is wide bodied. From this experiment we judged

4.

From this project we can conclude that the best smoking materials, easily available in most parts of our country, are dried cow dung or dry fibres from the papaya trunk.

Also a mixture of these materials is suitable.

5.

The so-called Botswana smoker (a simple tin held with a wire hook) is easy to make and cheap. Unfortunately it produces smoke for only a short time (28 minutes), produces flames and sparks, and puts the beekeeper at risk from inhaled smoke during its operation. Also it is not advisable for use where the chance of

TA QUAYE

that the shape of the smoker container is not so important but the volume must be at least two litres.

forest fire is high.

6.

Some of the traditional and locally-made smokers are good but not recommended to be used in fire hazard areas.

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Making equipment for beekeepers can be a useful source of income for craft workers Here are well made smokers made in Ghana by FOBE - Friends of Bee Enterprise

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Beekeeping inspector checks Nevis bees Mr Laurence Cutts, Senior Beekeeping Inspector for the State of Florida, USA,

recently visited Nevis to advise local beekeepers on pests and diseases and Africanization of their bees. His journey and accommodation were funded by the Florida Aid Agency FAVA/CA to whom Nevis Beekeepers are very grateful.

Ebenezer Franko Agonnor is a volunteer teaching apiculture in nine schools in rural areas of Eastern Here he shows how Ghana. to make a top-bar hive.

PHOTOGRAPH SENT BY NANA AFUFFO-LARTEY

While Mr Cutts is impressed that Nevis is pest and disease free and that, subject to laboratory confirmation, there appears to be no Africanization of Nevis bees, he is very concerned that Nevis bees will soon have these problems. He warned Nevis Beekeepers that Africanized bees had taken hold in Puerto Rico, St Croix, Trinidad and probably in Dominican Republic and Haiti as well.

Africanized bees were to come to St Kitts or Nevis they could:

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Ruin a thriving local beekeeping industry on both islands, with unique export industries based on honey and beeswax;

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End the possibility of raising queen bees for export.

MEXICO The Proceedings

of the Ninth

American Conference of Apiculture

are now published. They contain papers on Africanized honeybees, pathology, stingless bees and honey production. Sixteen papers in Spanish, five in English.

Available from: Programa Nacional Para El Control de la

Abeja Africana, Campeche N 285 Ex, Hipodromo Condesa,

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As well as the above named islands Varroa mite is known to be on Grenada, because beekeepers from that island imported queens with infested attendant bees from the USA. There is no cure for Varroa and control is very costly.

Other bee diseases to be wary of, and not found in Nevis bees by Mr Cutts, are American foulbrood and European foulbrood (brood diseases that can be carried in honey - for example honey imported from countries whose bees have these diseases) and tracheal mite.

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Africanized bees have found their way to Caribbean Islands as swarms on container ships. They cluster between the containers and come ashore at any port of call. There is also a danger that these swarms, or bees brought into St Kitts and Nevis by other means, carry Varroa.

Laurence Cutts pointed out that if diseased or Africanized bees found their way into either St Kitts or Nevis they would spread, by flying across The Narrows to the sister island. It is important that a sharp and watchful eye be kept on sea port facilities in Nevis and St Kitts.

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Quentin Henderson

Source: The St Kitts-Nevis Observer October 1996

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SOUTH AFRICA The “Hail

annual award to recognise those whose work has uplifted agriculture in South Africa. In 1996 it was won for the first time by a beekeeper, Philimon Modileng. of Fame” is an

Philimon is a remarkable entrepreneur who succeeded despite great difficulties. He began beekeeping at age 13 in 1950, working for a commercial beekeeper.

In 1973 he started his own bee farm, beginning with just 12 hives. Today he is regarded as the most successful beekeeper in South Africa, running 3200 colonies, and employing eight people. Average production is 90 tonnes of honey per year.

Philimon M dileng’s career has been difficult: He had tod eal with the aggressive apartheid years. Trave ling around the country, Philimon did not expe rience too many problems with the authorit ies as the police force considered that all beel eepers were white. White beekeepers used black labourers to transport their hives < ll over the country and wheneve Philimon ca me to a road block, he was summoned to carry on. The police were not wanting to € ntertain a truck load of bees.

Philimon he d to also contend with farmers who could r ot accept him.

About this t ime Philimon had to deal with the arrival of the Cape bee. This was a shattering period wher 2800 of his colonies were destroyed. | eft with 400, he managed to increase to 000 colonies once again. Being in Bophuthats’ ana, Philimon could not benefit from the Go vernment subsidy being enjoyed by his Sout! African counterparts. Philimon could hardly cope with this episode and his finances we e dwindling.

After the 19' 4 elections representation was made to the authorities: permission was granted to a flow Philimon to receive assistance i the same way as the others. This led to misct ief amongst some beekeepers who

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INVESTING MONEY IN HONEY by

Merlin Willcox,

Voluntary Representative for Shared Interest

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Many people have some money which they wish to put aside for later in life. Wouldn't it be wonderful to invest it in a way which helps to create or sustain jobs for poorer people? This is possible inthe United Kingdom thanks to an organisation called “Shared Interest”.

People in the UK become members of investing 100 or more, and they can get their money back by return of post when they need it. The interest rate is 1.75%, but many members choose to waive their interest. There is also the option of investing in loan stock - 2000 or more for five years with 0% interest, guaranteed by the Co-operative Bank.

This is just the type of long-term funding needed by many projects in developing countries.

Shared Interest by

poisoned a whole apiary belonging to Philimon. Vandalism is experienced by many bee farmers in South Africa: hives are sometimes totally destroyed. if these curses were not enough, Philimon wot a further 2000 colonies during 1995 to the Cape bee. Nevertheless he is not broken and looks forward to being involved in developing new beekeepers in the new dispensation of this land.

During the Bophuthatswana homeland rule, the authorities requested Philimon to work for them as an apicultural advisor. Being very sceptical of this position, Philimon declined.

He felt that during a rough time the Government would rebuke him by laying him off, not realising that it was the forage decline and not his management. He knows how to run his business and he knows the pitfalls: he wanted to realise his own destiny. Philimon plans to retire in a few years.

For me to have interviewed Philimon at his home in Makapanstad was a great experience it gives me pleasure to announce that limon is the first beekeeper in South Africa to have been recognised in the Agricultural “Hall of Fame’.

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Eddy Lear, Chairman - South African Federation of

EN LEAR

Bee Farmers’ Association

Some of Philimon Modileng’s 3200 hives, cleaned and

The money is channelled to borrowers in two ways. Firstly, some is lent through The Ecumenical Development Co-operative Society. This organisation finances projects which contribute to the social and economic advancement of poor communities. Secondly, Shared Interest lends money to Fair Trade organisations such as Traidcraft, Oxfam and Tropical Forest Products. So when Zambian beekeepers part with their honey and wax, they can be paid quickly, rather than having to wait for six months or a year until the honey is sold in Europe.

Tropical Forest Products was set up by David Wainwright, a British beekeeper, to import honey from Zambia and Tanzania. No one else in the UK had been willing to buy it. The rich, dark, strongly flavoured honey had been classed as “industrial grade” by buyers who believed that the British only like light, flowery honeys. Luckily for David and his African colleagues, the pundits turned out to be wrong.

The honey is bought from a co-operative of beekeepers made up of about 360 village groups, each of these with about ten members. Everyone places hives in the forest - hollowed trunks and tubes made of bark are hung in the trees and are colonised by bees. One of the biggest problems for

the beekeepers is transporting honey out of the forest to the villages. The honey is packed in 30 kg buckets and these have to be carried by bicycle or on the beekeepers’ head for 15-30 km. In the past, during a bumper harvest, the market price of honey would drop so that it was not worthwhile to carry the honey very far. The old beekeepers tell of squeezing the honey on to the forest floor and only keeping the valuable beeswax. Now the co-operative has helped by providing a steady price for as much honey and beeswax as the beekeeper is prepared to carry out of the forest. y

The Zambian beekeepers need income to pay for schooling and health care.

These are no longer free in Zambia.

But money is not always the most appropriate payment in the middle of the forest, where they are no shops. So the co-operative’s buyers bring much needed goods such as blankets and salt when they come to collect honey.

The beekeepers can choose to buy these with the cash they get from selling their honey.

The beekeepers do not harvest honey just for export, most is consumed in the forest where it is produced or in local towns. When the crop is small there is not much honey available from export. Tropical Forest Products becomes important in years when there is bumper harvest to provide a market for the surplus. This is where Shared Interest comes in, by providing financial back-up to enable Tropical Forest Products to buy as much honey and beeswax as the beekeepers can a

produce.

For investors, the financial returns from Shared Interest may not be record-

breaking, but the social returns certainly are. do not now know of any other investment where so little money can create and sustain so many decent jobs, in parts of the world that need them so much. |

If you would like more information or an application form for membership, please write to: Shared Interest, Freepost,

Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom

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AAA is the Asian Apicultural Association. AAA exists to link people in Asia - and beyond who are interested in Asian bees and Asian beekeeping.

AAA functions by having Chapters (Representatives) in almost every Asian country, which together form a network for information flow. AAA is administered from the Honeybee Science Research Center of Tamagawa University, Japan.

AAA welcomes new members. A list of all Asian countries with Chapters, and contact names and addresses was published in B&DA4O, page 10. The AAA Membership is USS$20 per year, or the local equivalent. If you live in one of the countries with a representative, contact them direct. Otherwise send US$20 to: AAA Office, c/o Honeybee Science Research Center, Tamagawa University, Machida Shi, Tokyo 194, Japan.

Fax:

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427 39 8854,

Hanoi is a city of unexpected, tranquil beauty. A city with green lakes, red pagodas, tree-lined boulevards, and streets full of bicycles and cyclos (rick-shaws).

Market streets spilling over with every kind of merchandise: produce, videos, silks, baskets, plastics. All mixed with grand buildings in the style of French villas, in shades of muted yellow, standing amid cool, leafy precincts. In the centre of Hanoi is Ho Chi Minh Museum. This was the setting for AAA’s third Conference.

People from Africa, America, Australasia, Europe and the Middle East joined representatives from most Asian countries to participate in the Conference. In the centre of the Museum is an excellent lecture hall, and surrounding this are areas where beekeeping displays from around Asia were presented, and where the all-important meetings between friends and colleagues could take place.

And there was plenty to talk about: newly identified honeybee species, fresh insights into how honey is harvested from bees, new efforts to stimulate beekeeping in rural development. Apiculturalists in different fields presented their recent work. These were some of the highlights:

Traditional Tikung beekeeping, similar to the Apis dorsata rafter beekeeping of South Vietnam, is practised in Indonesia in West Kalimantan and Bilitung Island (see picture below right). @ Professor Niko Koeniger from Germany presented the research of his team on Apis nuluensis, the honeybee they have newly described from Borneo. (Nuluensis means belonging to mountains). @

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Professor Gard Otis from Canada described work with Ms Soesilawati

Hadisoesilo on Apis nigrocincta, another previously unrecognised honeybee species from

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hunters filmed using night-sight technology. These honey hunters are in the forests of Sabah (Borneo) collecting honey from the giant bee, Apis dorsata. The bees are nesting 20 m above ground in trees of the rainforest, and honey hunting is always done only on completely dark, moon-less nights. The video unveiled secrets, revealing the true skill and horror of the work involved.

Professor Sasaki from Tamagawa University, Japan, described his team’s work to explain why Apis mellifera (the European honeybee) ventilates at the hive entrance facing in towards the hive, whereas Apis cerana (the Asian honeybee) faces the other way. Are Apis cerana facing outwards so they can watch for

approaching predators?

Dr Naomi Saville described her work to

promote sustainable beekeeping in a remote part of Western Nepal. The conclusion?

Truly participatory development requires great commitment!

Indonesia. @

Ms Nguyen Thu Hang described Vietnam's work since 1989 to train farmers in Apis cerana beekeeping.

A “Training of Trainers”

NEXT CONFERENCE The next AAA Conference will take place in Kathmandu,

Nepal in 1998. Keep reading

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Mr Harryanto, Mr Tamrin and Mr Ade Jumhur are beekeepers from West Kalimantan (Indonesia). They are standing beside a

“Tikung”

a wooden

board underneath which one

programme is meeting with success.

colony of the giant honeybee Apis dorsata will build its

Mr Michael Gries (a member of the Koeniger team) showed a fascinating video of honey

single comb. In this traditional honey collecting system, the “Tikung” is placed in a forest tree and thus provides a nesting place convenient for both the bees and the beekeeper.

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Of course there were many other interesting presentations: too many to mention here. All presentations will be published in the

Conference Proceedings.

Watch this space for details! for

in Northern

Vietnam

Mr Paliwal of India shows the bee-proof clothing, incorporating a safety helmet, he has designed for honey hunters. This is part to ensure honey hunting can continue without a project harm to the bees’ nest or the honey hunters.

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AAA NEWS Changes at the top!

Mr Tetsuo Sakai, the Founding President of AAA has retired. Conference delegates thanked him warmly for his work in initiating AAA.

Where are they going? Conference delegates did not miss any opportunity to visit beekeepers

Professor Mitsuo Matsuka now carries the torch as President of AAA. Professor Matsuka’s previous role as Secretary General is filled by Dr Tadaharu Yoshida, whose shoes as Treasurer of the Association, are filled by Dr Jun Nakamura.

BEEKEEPING IN VIETNAM these are now controlled by biclogical methods, effectively practised simultaneously by beekeepers in each area.

Beekeeping in Vietnam is well supported by the Ministry of Agriculture's Bee Research and Development Centre. This Centre has a staff of 35, including 20 researchers. The Centre provides advice and training to beekeepers. There are also more bee research units within the Universities of Vietnam.

The majority of beekeepers in Vietnam keep a small number of colonies of the native honeybee Apis cerana. These might be kept in horizontal or vertical log hives, or in frame ves. There are also large-scale commercial _aterprises keeping both Apis cerana and Apis mellifera, the introduced ‘European’ honeybee. There are about 900 of these largescale enterprises keeping up to 1000 colonies in each apiary and moving them around to take advantage of honey flows. There are also

Tropilaelaps clareae. Nevertheless

beekeepers harvesting from Apis dorsata colonies (featured in the video,

Vietnam’s annual honey production is around 2500 tonnes, of which half is exported.

VINAPI (The Apicultural Corporation) and the Vietnam Apicultural Association are responsible for producing, processing and exporting honeybee products. A recent development has been the arrangement between VINAPI and TransFair International to export fair-traded honey to Europe. By this atrangement Vietnamese beekeepers are guaranteed a fair price for their honey.

Vietnam also produces about two tonnes of royal jelly each year this is exported to

Rafter beekeeping in Vietnam).

The main problems for the native honeybee, Apis cerana, are the diseases sacbrood and European foulbraod. Sacbrood disease seems to arrive in four year cycles. At first sacbrood had a severe impact on Vietnamese beekeeping but biological, integrated methods have now been developed to control it. Bee breeding is underway to select for bees showing resistance to these diseases.

The main problems for imported Apis mellifera are the bee mites Varroa jacobsoni and

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Japan and Europe.

Viewed fram above, and with the roof removed, it can be seen that this ts a top-bar log hive. The log has been cut to hold the top-bars. The combs (taken originally from a wild nest or swarm) have been tied on to the

top-bars

That man deserves

a

medal’ Vincent Mulder

worked with the beekeepers and others in Vietnam for eight years up to 1995, when he

returned home to the Netherlands.

The AAA Conference was a good chance to say “Thanks very much”. Here Professor

Ngo The Dan, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development presented a Gold Medal, for the Development of the Agriculture Sector, to Vincent Mulder.

Others in the picture are (left to right) Mr Tetsuo Sakai, retiring President of AAA, Professor Siriwat Wongsiri and

Dr Tadaharu Yoshida.

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BELGIUM APIMONDIA International Apicultural Congress 1-6 September 1997, Antwerp

SUSTAINABLE LAND USE The Sustainable Land Use Association is aiming for a more positive sustainable land use in Zimbabwe. The

Association produces a quarterly networking newsletter

SLUS Co-ordinator, ENDA-Zimbabwe, PO Box 3492, Write to:

Harare, Zimbabwe Fax: (+263) 430 1162

PUBLICATIONS NETWORKING The TEPUSA Initiative aims to promote book production, marketing, distribution and reading of books in Tanzania.

A future objective is to offer development agents, extensionists and village-level workers access to any technical publication required.

Contact address:

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Names The Munondo tree

Family Caesalpiniodeae

Description A well-branched, semi-deciduous tree growing up to 18 m high, with a rounded or sometimes flat crown, drooping foliage, and an often

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Fruits: dark brown, flat, velvety pods, squareended, borne above the leaves and splitting explosively to release two to six smooth brown seeds.

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Habitat Found between 1000 and 1400 m in dry, evergreen forest and in most woodland types on plateau and escarpment soils and is locally frequent in woodland on Kalahari sands, often dominant in miombo forests. Its rainfall range is from 700 to 1000 mm per year.

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Distribution Occurring in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mazambique, Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia and ibabwe. It is the most common and most widespread tree in Zimbabwe.

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INDEX FOR BEEKEEPING & DEVELOPMENT 38-41

Figures in BOLD denote issue number followed by relevant page number(s) for that issue.

A AAA; 38,7: 39.4: 40,10: 418.9 chapter, 38,7; 39.4: 40,10: 41,9 Third Conference, 41,8.9 AAA Conference in Vietnam, 41.8.9 Abdel Mannam Abd Aziz Osman, 40.14 Abdul,Q, 39,10 A bee smoker appropriate for

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African

41,3

Acacia spp, 38,9; 39.4; 40,11

Acarapis woodi, 39,10

acarine, see Acarapis

woodi

Actes du lroisieme seminaire regional sur la rechereche et le developement de Vapiculture en Afrique de (Quest,

40,13 Adam_Br, 40,14 Adenia cissampeloides, 38.6

Adriano,S, 39,13 Afendia,F }, 40.6 Africa, 38.3: 41,11,13 African honeybees - how to handle them in top-bar hives, 38,15; 41,13

africanized honeybees, see bee Afuffo-Lartey.N, 41,6

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good way to work a honey extractor,

39,5 Agriculture Man Ecology, 39,14 agroforestry, 40,9 A Guide to Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships in International Forestry

and National Resources, 41,13 Ahn.W-S, 38.7; 40,10 Aidoo.K S, 38.6 Akonnor,E F, 41.6 Al6bizzia spp. 38.9 Alcobia,} F. 41,12 Al-Jboory,], 39,10 Al-Mughrabi,}, 38,7; 40,10 America, 41,13 amoeba, 40,11 Anderson.R H, 41,5 A nomad amongst the bees, 40,13 Angola, 41,11 Antennae Waving, 41,2 ants, 38,12; 41,12 Antwerp, 41.16 Apicultura, 41,12 Apiculture sans Frontieres, 38.6 Apimondia: 38,13; 39,7: 40,14; 41, 0,16 Congress, see International Beekeeping Congress |

Bronze Medal, 38.2: 39.2; 40.2: 41.2 Gold Medal, 38,2; 39.2; 40,2; 41,2 Apis cerana, 40,5,6; 41,89 Apis dorsata, 38.14; 41,8,9,13 Apis florea, 38.8, 40,13 Apis mellifera, 40,13; 41,89 Apis mellifera abyssinica, 40.11 Apis mellifera jemenitica, 38,8: 40,11

Apis mellifera litorea, 40.13 Apis mellifera monticola, 40.11.13

Apis mellifera scutellata, 38,8: 40,11

Apis mellifera syriaca, 39.8 Apis nigrocincta, 41,8 Apis mulensis, 41,8

Apistan, 39,10; 40,16; 41.16 apitherapy, 41.13 Arumeru Beekeepers’ Society, 40.6 Ascophaera apis, 39,10 Asia, 38,7; 40,10; 41,13 Asian Apicultural Association, see AAA Atlas of Earthcare: guide

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41,12 Australia, 38,7; 39,7,8; 40,10 Axemite Period, 38.8

B B&D Useful Publication Award, 40,12; 44,12 bacchacs, see ants Baidya,D K, 38.7 Ball,B V, 39,10 Bangladesh. 38,7; 40.10 institute of Apiculture, 38.7: 40,10

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Basnet.S, 39.6; 40.6 beans, Atta, 38,11 Becium grandiflorum, 38.9

Bradbear,N, 38,2,12; 39,2,8; 40,2:

bee:

Brazil, 38,13: 39.6 Briggs.L, 38,7; 40.10 British Isles Bee Breeders’ Association, see BIBBA Bruenig, E F, 40,9 Brunei Darussalam, 38.7, 40,10 Bureau M & O, 41,12 Burton,S, 39,5 Buser,R, 40,4 buying, see marketing Buys,B, 41,5

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Brassica spp, 40,11

african, 38,6,8; 41,3 africanized, 41,6 breeding, 41.9 Cape, 41.6,7 disease, 38.10: 41.6

pathology. 41,6 pest, 41,6 predators, 41,8 products, export of, 40,14 species, see Apis sting treatment. 39,14 stingless, see stingless bees venom, 41,13 Bee Health: the revitalizing power of

propolis, royal jelly and pollen,

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bee hive, see hive

beekeepers: Vietnamese, 41,9 women, 38,9 Zambian, 41,7

beekeeping African, 38,3.4,5.8.9,10,12; 39,12,13,14; 40.11: 41,3,4,5 American, 40,4 North, 40,14 South, 40, 4 co-operative, 41,7 frame hive, 41,7 management, see management Middle East, 39,8 museum, 39,7 Namibian, 38,12 sustainable, 39,2 “Tikung’, 418.9 traditional, 38,10: 39,8 training, see training tropical, 41,13 Vietnamese, 41,9 with stingless bees, see Meliponiculture Beekeeping in South Africa, 41,5 Beekeeping in Namibia, 38,12 Beekeeping for beginners, 41,13 Beekeeping in the tropics, 41,13

c Cameroon, 38,12: 40,6; 41,10 Canada, 38,13: 39,7;40,14:; 41,8,10 Candle Currency, 38,13 candle making, 41,13 candles, 38,9 Capener,F, 38,1: 40,15 CBRI, see Central Bee Research Institute Central Bee Research Institute, India. 38.7; 40.10 Century Foundation, India. 39,6 Cervancia.C R, 38,7; 40,6,10 Chale,T A, 40,7 chalk brood, see Ascophaera apis Chile, 40.4 China, 38.7; 40,10 Chone.W, 38,12 CIRAD-Forét, 40,9 Citrus spp. 38,9 Clauss,B, 38,12,15; 39.3.4 Combretum spp. 38,9,12 competition, 41,16 congress, see conference Conservalion and management of tropical rainforests: an integrated approach to sustainability, 40,9

Cooperativa de Apicultores de Maputo, 41,12 Cordia spp. 38,9; 40,11 Coreopsis boraniana, 40,11

Costa Rica, 38,13; 39,7, 40,4 courses: 38,13, 39,7: 40,14,16; 41,10

Bee pollen: properties, collection,

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beer, see honey beer

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Bees and mankind, Bees as artists,

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beeswax: 38,9; 40,3: 41,7,13 buyer, 39.15; 40,16 foundation, see foundation marketing, see marketing

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BIBBA, 384 Bidens sp, 40.11

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tropical, 38.13, 39,7; 40.14: 41,10 Tanzania. 38,13; 39.7; 40,14, 41,10 train the trainers, 41,8 UK, 38,13; 39,7; Crane.E, 41,5 ‘Crawling bee syndrome’,

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Croton spp, 38.9

CTA, 38.2, 39,2; 40,2; 41,2 Cuba, 38,13; 39,7 Cutts.L, 41,6

D Dan.N J. 41,8 DANIDA, 39.2; 40,2; 41,2 dearth period, 38,4 Denmark, 39,7 Directory of forestry research organizations

1995, 40.9

Dominican Republic, 41.6 Dorren,G, 41,12 Duggan.M, 40,6 Durst.P B, 40,9

E Eaton, C van, 38,7; 40,10 Ecuador, 39,4,5 Ecumenical Development Co-operative, 41.7 Egerton University, Kenya, 38.6 equipment: design, 38,4; 39,5 making, 40,3 Eritrea, 38.8.9.10 Eritrean People's Liberation Front,

Ethiopia, 38,8; 40,2,11 Eucalyptus camaldulensis, 40,8

Eucalyptus spp, 38,9; 40.8

log, 40,5 movable-frame, 40,1 [ support, 41,12 Mozambgiue style, 41,12 top-bar, 38.4,12; 39.3.4; 40,11;

Euclea spp, 38,9

Euphorbia sp. 38.9; 39.4

Europe, 41.9 Euphrates, 39.8

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Explanation Please!, 41,13

frame for, 39.3.4 top-bar-log,41.8 traditional, 39.8; 40.11 Zander, 40.11 Holeta Bee Research and Training

extractor, see honey

F Facts about “A frame for the Kenya topbar hive", 39,3

fair trade: 41,7,9 honey, 41,7,9

Centre, 40,2.11

honey: 41,7.13 analysis, 38,13 beer, 38,9 bucket, 41,7 buyer, 39,15; 40,16 comb, 39,3

FAO, 38,14; 39.6.8: 409,12: 46,2 FAVA, 41.6 feeding, see management Ferguson,K E, 38,7; 40,10 FichtLR, 38,8,9, 40,7: 41,11 First aid for bee stings, 39,14 Fisher.E. 39,12 Fisher.M, 38.2.7 Florida, 41,6 Folbex VA, 39,10 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, see FAO forest: see also woodland non-wood products, 41,13

co-operative, 41,7 Eritrean, 38,9 extractor, 39,5 home-made, 39,5 Festival, 39,6 gathering, see hunting, hunting, 38,12; 41.3.8 industrial grade, 41,7 marketing, see marketing price, 38,9 production, 41,69 show, 38,6,7.16, 40,15

products, 41,10 protection, Forest products and household incomes: a review and annotated bibliography,

Honey: a practical guide for African community beekeepers, 39.14

40,9

Forests, Trees and Food,

Honeybee Science Research Centre, 38,7; 40,10; 41,9

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forestry, 41.13 books on, 40,9 foulbrood: 39,10

Honey News, 40.6

Honig Mehler, 39.15; 40,16 Hoood Bin Saif Al-Alawi, 40,13 ‘hukum adat’, 39,6

American, 41,6 European, 39,10; 41.6,9 foundation, 39,9 frame:

feeder, 38,45 for top-bar hive, 39.3.4

Ruai, 39,3 France, 40,9

Free] B, 41,5 Friends of Bee Enterprise, 41,5 Fruits of the forest, 41,12 Fumagillin, 39.10 funding sources, 41,13

G Gaia, 41,12,16 Garn Products, 38.16 Germany, 38.13; 39.4.7; 40.14; 41,10 GHABA, see Ghana Beekeepers’

[ACR-Rothamsted, UK, 39,10 ICIMOD, 39.6 ICRAF, 38.11 Igboanugo,A B |, 40,8 India, 38,7; 39.6,14; 40,5,10.14; 41,10 Indonesia, 38,7, 40,10; 41,8 inside Information, 38,2; 39.2;

40,2:41,2

XXXV, 38,13; 39,7; 40,14; 41,10.16

XXXVI. 39,7, 40,14; 41,10 XXXVIL, 39,7; 40,14: 41,40

Association

Ghana, 38,6,16; 39.7,16; 41,5,6 Beekeepers’ Association, 38.6 giant bee, see Apis dorsata Gibson,N, 38,15: 39,15, 40,14; 41.13 Gould) L, 40,5 Gould,C L, 41,5 Grenada, 41,6 Gries,M, 41,8 GTZ, 38.10 Guatemala, 40,4 Guizotia spp, 40,11

H Hadisoesilo.S, 41,8 Haiti, 41,6 Hajidaud.K, 38,7; 40,10 “Hall of Fame", 41,6 Hang,N-T, 39,4; 41,1,8 Hanoi, 41,8 Harryanto,Mr, 41,8 Hassan.L, 38,3: 41,5 Health & the honeybee. 41.8

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Institute of Honeybee Science. see Honeybee Science Research Centre, international Beekeeping Congress,

International Centre for Integrate7 Mountain Development, see ICIMOD International Federation of Beekeepers’ Association, see Apimondia Investing money in honey, 41,7 Iraq, 39,8,9,10,11 Beekeepers’ Association, 39,9 Iran, 39,14, 40,14 Ireland, 39,7 irvine,F R, 38,11 Israel, 38,13 Italy, 38,13; 39,7; 40,14 IUCN, 39.6

J Jackson,H, 38.2; 39,2; 40,2; 44,2 Japan, 38,7; 40,10; 41,89 Job,DA, 41,13 Johnston.], 40,13 Julbernardia globiflora, 41,11 Juma,R, 39,13 JumhurA, 41,8

Helianthus annus, 40,11

Henderson,} Q, 41,6 Henry Doubleday Research Assocation, UK, 39,7 Himalayan Bee Concern, 40,6 hive: bark, 39,12; 40,7; 41,7 design, 38,12; 39.3.4 frame, 39,3,4,8 Kenya top-bar, 39,3,4 frame for, 39,3,4 Langstroth, 39,5

K Kaambu.,T, 38,12 Kaftanoglu,O, 38,7; 40,10

Kagio.S, 38,6 Kanshahu.A I, 40,12 Kashio,M, 40,9 Kasimila,P, 39,13 Kathmandu, 41,9 Keens-Dumas.H, 40,3 Kenya, 38,6, 39,1,2,3,4.16

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Kenya top-bar hive, see hive Kevan,P, 40,13 Keystone, 40,5

Kibungu,K, 38,1!

Kirkuk, 39,10 Kissinger,H, 41,2 Koeniger,N, 41,8 Koisianga,R SO, 41,3 Koppell.C, 40,9 Korea, 38,7; 40,10 Krell,R, 40,12

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Natural medicine from honey

bees,

41,13

NECTAR, 41,12 Nepal, 38,6,7; 39,6; 40,6,10; 41,8,9 Netherlands, 41.8 Expertise Centre for Tropical Apicultural Resources, see

NECTAR Nevis, 41,6

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M Madaha,J, 39.6.13 Mahawa,M E, 40.6 Malawi, 41,11 Malaysia, 38,7; 40,10,13 Maliti,A, 40,7 management: 413 feeder, 38,4,5 feeding, 38,4,5 queen, 38,10 cage, 38,10 supering, 38,10 swarming, 38,10 Mande,G, 39,1,2 Manimba,A, 39,13 Manimba,P, 39,13 marketing: honey, 38.9 Marketing information systems for non-timber forest products, 40,9

Martin,L, 39,13 Mati,A, 38.7; 40,10 Matsuka, M, 41,9 Mattu.V K, 38,7; 40,10 Mavrik, 39,10 Max Havelaar, see The Max Havelaar Foundation Mbobua,S,k, 39,3 >,R, 39,13 1g River Delta, 41,13 meurerous flora, 38,9,11; 40,11;

Beekeepers’ Association, 41,6 New Forests Project, 38,6 News Around The World, 38,6; 39,6; 40,6; 41,6 News from Nijiro . 38,3, 41,3 New Zealand, 38,7; 40,10 Neganzi, 38,11 Ngwainmbi,S C, 38,12 Nigeria, 38,11; 40,8; 41,10 Nightingale,], 39.3 Nijiro Wildlife Research Centre, 383;

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Menon.A, 39,6 Mexico, 40,4; 41.6 miombo, see woodland Min Bahadur Rana, 38,6 mite: 43,6,9 parasitic sydrome, 39,8,9,10,11" tracheal, 41,6 MITIAS, 38,10 Modileng,P, 41,6.7 Morley,A, 39,4,5 Morocco, 40,14 Morse,R A, 40,12 Mozambique, 41,11,12 Muid,M Hj, 38,7; 40,10 Mulder,V, 41,8 multipurpose tree, 38,11; 40.8; 41,11 Multipurpose

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museum, see peekeeping museum Muzaffar,N, 38,7; 40,10 Mwanyangoapo.M, 38,12 Mwaraba.R, 39,4

N Namibia, 38,1 2,16; 39,16 Namibian Directorate of Forestry, 38,12 Nakamura,], 41.9 National Honey Show, UK, 38,6,12,16; 40,7,15

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non-timber forest products, see NTFP Non wood forest products in Asia, 40,9 North West Beefarmers Association, see NOWEBA Nosema apis, 39,10; 40,11 Notice Board, 38, !3: 39,7, 40,14; 41,10 NOVIB, 41,12 NOWEBA, 40,6 Nsubuga,G, 40,7 NTFP, 41,33 oO

ODA, 38,3,12; 39,6 oil bean tree, see Pentaclethra macrophylla

Oman, 38,7; 40,10,13 orange, see Citrus spp Opuntia ficus, 38,9

O'Temgo,U, 39,12 Otis,G W, 41,8 Overseas Development Administration, see ODA Oxfam, 41,7 owala oil tree, 38,11 oxytetracycline, 39,10

P Pakistan, 38,7; 40,10, 14; 41,10 Paliwai,Mr, 41,9 Pamplona,B, 39,6 parasitic mite sydrome, 39,8,9,10,11

participatory: development, 41,8 research, 38,6 PAUAL, 40,4 Europe, 40,4

PAUAL

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de América

Latina, 40,4

Peguefios Apicultores Unidos de América Latina, see PAUAL Pentaclethra macrophylla, 38,11

pesticides, 39,9 Philippines, 38,7; 40.6,

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Planning and implementing sustainable projects in developing countries theory, practice and economics, 40,12 Plantes Hotes des Chenilles Commestibles,

poison, see venom pollen, 39,14; 41,13 pollination: 38,4 ecology, 39,14 pollinators, 38,14 portuguese, 41,12 poverty, 41,12

Practical Beekeeping, 38,4; 39,3,5; 40,3; 41,3 predators, see also bee, 41,8 Proceedings: Ninth American Conference of Apiculture, 41,6

Proctor,M, 39,14, Programa Nacional Para El Control de la Abeja Africana, 41.6 propolis: 38,16; 39,6,15; 41,13 buyer, 38,16; 39,15; 40,16 Pterocarpus angolensis, 38,12 Puerto Rico, 41,6 Punchihewa,R W K, 38,7, 40,10

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tafter bee, see bee Rafter beekeeping in Vietnam, 38,15;

41,9,13 rainforest, see forest rape, see Brassica spp recipes, 38,7; 40,10 Reddy.C C, 38,7; 40,10 Rhododendron spp, 40.5 Ricciardelli D'Albore,G, 38,13 Riley,S, 39,4 Rio Bamba Beekeepers’ Co-operative, 39,4 Robbins,P, 40,12 Rothamsted Experimental Station, see IACR-Rothamsted

Roubik,D W, 38,14 Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, see DANIDA royal jelly: 41,913

production, 41,9 Ss

Saad,Mr, 39,8 Saadatmand,S J, 39,14 Sabah, 41,8 sacbrood, 41,9 Saho culture, 38,9 Saint Croix, 41,6 Saint Helena, 38,2 Saint Kitts, 41,6 Sakai,T, 41.8.9 Saleh.H, 39,13 Sandoz SPC Ltd, 39,2; 40,2,16;

412,16 Sasaki, M, 41,8 Saudi Arabia, 38,7; 40,10 Saville,N, 40,3; 41.8 Schefflera abyssinica, 40,11

Seeley,T D, 38,15 Selling honey, 40,12 Selman,T, 39,11 Serengeti Wildlife Research Institute, 38,3 Shared Interest, 41,7 Shimanuki,M, 39,11 Sherratt,D, 38,12 Shoaa,Mr, 39,8 Shrestha.K K, 40,10 Simics,M, 39,14 Sivaram.V, 39,6 Smith,F G, 40,12

supers, see management Sustainable Land Use Association, 41,10 Svensson,B, 38.3.5; 41,5 SVS, 38,3 SWEBA, 40,6 Swedish Volunteer Service, see SVS Switzerland, 40,4 syrup feeding, see management

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Tamrin,Mr, 41,8 Tanzania, 38,3,4,13; 39,4,6,7,!2, 40,6,12,14; 41,3,10,)1 Tree Planting Association, 40,14

Tapera,Mr, 40,7 Technology Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation, see CTA tej, 40,11

TEPUSA Initiative, 41,10 Thailand, 38.7; 40,10 The Asiatic hive bee: apiculture, biology and role in sustainable development in tropical and subtropical beekeeping.

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41,5 The Max Havalaar Foundation, 40,4 The natural history of pollination, 39,14 The honeybee,

The new complete guide to beekeeping,

41,12 The oil bean tree: Pentaclethra

macrophylla, 38,11 The social sustainability of beekeeping, The St Kitts-Nevis Observer,

41,6

The wisdom of the hive, 38,15 Three cells of honeycomb, 40,12

Tigray, 38,8,9,10 Tigris, 38,8

Tizo,39,5 Tobago, see Trinidad and Tobago top-bar, see hive Townson,] M, 40,9 Towry-Coker,S, 39,14 trade:

alternative, 38,13; 39,7; 40,4 organisation, 40,4 traditional: beekeepers, see beekeepers beekeeping, see beekeeping Traditional

Soap recipes: seventy tried and true ways to make modern soap with herbs, beeswax and vegetable oils, 38,14:

multipurpose, 38,11; 40.8, 41,11 Trees Bees Use, 38,!1: 40,8, 41,11

Super formulas: how to make more than 360 useful products that contain honey and beeswax, 38,14; 41,13

Ulrich W, 40,9 United Kingdom, see UK Uruguay, 40,4 USA, 38,6,13: 39,7; 40,12; 41,6,10 USDA, 41,13 Use of tobacco smoke against parasitic mite syndrome. 39,11

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40,12 Varroa, see Varroa jacobsoni Varroa jacobsoni, 39,8; 40,11.16;

41,6,9,12,16 Veen,H van de, 41,12 Venezuela, 38,13; 39,7; 40,14; 41,10 venom, 41,13 Vernonia spp, 40,11 Videoshelf, 38.15; 39,14; 40,13 Vietnam, 38,7,13,14; 39,4,7; 40,10;

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Apiculture Association, 41,9 Bee Research Centre, 41.9 Village Aid, 38,7,13 VINAPI, 41,9 volunteer, 38,12 Vries, R de, 38,14 VSO, 38,12,16; 3916 Ww

The complete guide to beekeeping, 41,13 The Documentary - Honeybees in Oman,

tobacco, 39,11 treatment, 41,3,4,5 smoker: 40,7; 41,3.4,5 Botswana type, 41,3,5 disadvantages, 41,3 fuel, 41,3,4,5 making, 41,3,4,5 materials, 41,3,4,5 traditional, 41,3 soap, 38,14

41,13 Solomon,G, 40,7 South Africa, 39,7; 40,14; 41,6,10 Federation of Bee Farmers’ Association, 41,7 South Western Bee Farmers’ Association, see SWEBA spanish, 41,6 Sri Lanka, 38,7; 40,10 stingless bee, 38,8,14; 41,6 Strainaway, 38,16; 39,2 Stroud,S, 38,1 SUAS/IRDC, 40,9 Sugar feeding using a top bar feeder, 38,4 sugar syrup, 38,4 Sulimanovic,D, 39,15

UK, 38,6,13; 39,7,12; 40,12; 41,7,10 beekeeping groups,

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bee management as a basis for beekeeping development in the tropics,

41,13 Traditional candlemaking: simple methods of manufacture, 41,13 Traidcraft. 41,7 training, 38,6,10,12,13; 39,7; 40,6,14,16; 41,8 Transfair International, 41,9 Tree Aid, 39,7 trees: see also forest and woodland

Trees of Nigeria, 38,11

Trifolium spp, 40,11

Trigona spp, 38.8

Wainwright,D, 41,7 Walji.H, 41,12 Wang,W-Y, 38,7; 40,10 Waring,A, 38,14,15 wax, see also beeswax wax foundation, see foundation Wax foundation making, 40,3 Wendorf,H. 39,12 West Africa Bee Research Seminar.

Third, 40,13 West Kalimantan, 39,6; 41,8 White,E C, 38,14 Widjaia,.M,C 38,7; 40,10 Willcox,M, 41,7 Wilson,Mr, 39,5 World Seed Programme 1996, 38,6 Wongsiri,S, 41,8 Woo,K-S, 38,7; 40,10 Woody plants of Ghana, 38,11

work wanted overseas, 38,16; 39.16

World Food Summitt, 39,7; 40,14; 41, Vision Award for Development Initiative, 38,2; 39,2; 40.2; 41,2 :

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Y Yang,G H, 38,7; 40.10 Yeboah Gyan,D, 38,6 Yeo,P, 39,14 yield, see honey Yoshida,T, 41.8

Z Zaire, 38,1); 41,11 Zambia, 39,12; 40,7, 41,7,!1 Zimbabwe, 39,1,2,14; 40,7; 41,10,11 Women’s Bureau, 39,1,2 . Eritrea, Zooming in on 38,8.9,10 Zooming in on. . . Ethiopia, 40,1!

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39,.8.9,10.14

Zufferey,M, 40,4

Trinidad, see Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago, 38.6; 40,6;

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tropical products, 40,12 Tropical commodities and their markets: a guide and directory, 40,12

Tropical Forest Products Ltd, 41.7 Tropilaelaps clareae, 41,9 Turkey, 38,7; 40,10; 41,10 TWIN Ltd, 40,12

U Ugalla Game Reserve, Tanzania, Uganda, 39,2,7; 40,7 Beekeepers’ Association, 40,7

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