In Issue 49

Dear friends

Bees and beekeepers are working all over the world, quietly harvesting and selling their golden harvests of honey and beeswax. Perhaps too quietly: too often beekeeping is missed out by planners, policy makers, authors and lecturers.

A very important function of this magazine is to raise the profile of beekeeping: it is an important industry, vital for agriculture. Beekeeping is already practised almost everywhere, it is often small-scale but it is widely spread. The industry has potential to develop and new problems to face.

Meetings of apiculturalists are addressing these issues: two important meetings are reported in this edition: The First Caribbean Congress held last month in Tobago, and the Workshop on Sustainable Beekeeping Development held in India. Beekeeping Development is the only international magazine reporting on these meetings, spreading their ideas further and helping to raise the status of our industry, world-wide.

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Nicola Bradbear

Bees for Development

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