Bookshelf

From where I sit

by Mark L Winston with foreword by Eva Crane

1998 171 pages. Paperback. Available from Bees for Development price £14.00

This book is compilation of essays on bees, beekeeping and science which link the world of the bee scientists with the beekeeper. Dr Winston explains that there is an obligation for both parties to share their knowledge as they ultimately rely on each other for continued success. Mark Winston writes regularly in zine Bee Culture and the essays have been selected from his monthly column. The essays cover many subjects, great amount of information about honeybees: the problem of mites, Africanized bees, honey, to mention just few; but also wider spectrum of issues spanning nature, science, teaching and the role of scientists in society.

Honeybees of Africa

by H R Hepburn and S E Radloff

1998 370 pages. Hardback. Available from Bees for Development price £70.00

Documented knowledge of the honeybees of Africa is very small compared with the information available on honeybees of the northern hemisphere

This textbook begins closing the gap. The eleven chapters provide an academic insight into the honeybees of Africa including: biogeographical perspectives; classification; bee flora; population dynamics; behaviour; and seasonal cycles.

The beekeeper’s handbook

by Diana Sammataro and Alponse Avitabile a forward by Roger Morse

1998 (third edition) 140 pages. Paperback. Available from Bees for Development price £24.00

The new edition of this handbook (it was first published 20 years ago) has been totally updated to reflect how beekeeping as an art and as science has reacted to changes in recent times.

The book is designed for both beginners, and established beekeepers who require guidance through the many complicated tasks of beekeeping with frame hives. The activities of the colony, hive products, pollination and bee plants, and special management problems are covered.

Farmer to farmer extension: lessons from the field

by Daniel Selener, Jacqueline Chenier and Ratl Zelaya

1997 140 pages. Paperback. Available from Bees for Development price £15.00

Many development organisations use ‘farmer promoters’. These are the people who work in rural communities as extension workers. They usually have little or no formal education, but through training and practice increase their knowledge and become good sharing it with others. The farmer promoter’s role is to stimulate rural development. They may be working full time, part time, paid or as volunteers.

Part One of this book discusses every aspect of achieving extension by means of farmer promoters. Recommendations are given towards optimising their work. Part Two describes five case studies, showing the variety of ways in which farmer-to-farmer methodology can work.

This is very readable book. It gives excellent summaries of positive and negative aspects of the various ways to involve farmer promoters.

Unlocking trade opportunities

edited by Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts

1997 64 pages. Paperback. Available from: Erik Brandsma, UN Department of Policy Co-ordination and Sustainable Development,

The book describes case studies of export success from developing countries. Environmental policy and awareness in developed countries have created export opportunities for developing countries that are environmentally sound, create additional income and strengthen communities.

Case studies explore manufactured products (textiles and refrigerators), agricultural commodities (coffee, cotton and fruit) and forest products (timber and non-timber products.

The sustainable management of tropical rainforests

by René Catinot

1997 100 pages. Paperback. English and French editions. Available from: ATIBT, France. Price 100 FF plus postage. E-mail atibt@compuserve.co

Mankind has been managing temperate zone forests for nearly five centuries. The sustainable management of tropical rainforests is much newer concept. This book outlines the problems concerned with managing rainforests their technical, social and human environments and proposes an initial, practicable management system: how to plan it and how to implement it.

The INASP directory of organisations and networks in rural development: Africa

1998 229 pages. Ring-bound paperback. Available free of charge to addresses in developing countries (£10 elsewhere) from: Pru Watts-Russell, INASP, E-mail inasp@gn.apc.org

Video Shelf

Cycle biologique et orientation de l’acarien Varroa

(Life cycle and orientation of the Varroa mite)

1997 VHS PAL. Running time 25 minutes. French and German commentary versions.

Available from Bees for Development price £20.00 including airmail postage and packing

great deal of research has been carried out on Varroa jacobsoni by the Beekeeping Section at the Liebefeld Institute in Switzerland. Gérard Donzé and Matthias Rickli have extensively studied the reproduction of the mite in the brood cells of honeybees. Their research results have been compiled into this useful documentary.

The researchers have found that Varroa orientates itself in brood cells through the detection of scents. Ultimately the aim of the work underway at the Institute is to provide beekeepers with biological method of control against Varroa.

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