50th edition Achievement Acknowledged

Greetings from some of our friends world-wide!

Professor Mitsuo Matsuka, President, Asian Apicultural Association, Japan

Congratulations on the 50th issue of B&D. Information about the activities of AAA has been dependent on B&D since it was adopted as our official newsletter. We have learned of many events in Asia through B&D, which we did not hear about directly. We are thankful and admire Dr Nicola Bradbear and staff for their efforts, and hope them to be continued. Nicola joins our biennial conferences and suggests many things for our direction, because many Asian countries are now developing, especially new styles of beekeeping of their own. These situations are well reported in B&D.

Now AAA has grown to publish its own journal, Asian Bee Journal, from this year. new relationship and collaboration will begin between AAA and B&D in the near future. But think and hope we may still depend on B&D for while.

Congratulations from all of Tamagawa people too"

Riccardo Jannoni-Sebastianini, Sectretary General, APIMONDIA

Well done on reaching your 50th edition!

Christopher Mathew Mikilanya, Nbinga, Tanzania

I would like to convey my gratitude to the Editor and entire staff of B&D for the commendable job, that we are able to know beekeeping development world-wide. Tribute should further go to donors who are supporting this important job.

British Beekeepers' Association

Congratulations on your 50th edition

Bee Health Ltd

Congratulations on your 50th edition

Richard C Robarts, President, Near East Foundation, USA

Beekeepers around the world are special group of people. To degree unequalled in other development fields, they share commitment to their vocation, willingness to share their experience, and strong drive to advance beekeeping technology. They sincerely believe the world would be better place with more and better beekeeping!

B&D is at the active centre of this world-wide network of beekeepers. It is the indispensable link among far-flung fraternity (and growing sorority!) of beekeepers. In its pages, success stories are reported, information shared and good practices encouraged.

On the occasion of this 50th edition the Near East Foundation is pleased to join the beekeeping community in recognising an important milestone in the life of B&D and wishing Nicola and Helen all success with their plans for expansion.

Liana Hassan, Director, Nijro Wildlife Research Centre, Tanzania

Congratulations partners! Communication between us and other interested parties in beekeeping has been very difficult in the past, but as B&D increased its popularity the barriers have been tremendously reduced.

This has been so especially from 1996 when more people have been able to access to our messages on Sustainable Beekeeping for Africa through B&D.

We have this on record which has been possible through B&D: between 1996 and now, more than 200 people from Europe, Asia, America and Africa have contacted us after reading BRD. More than 70 people from outside Tanzania have visited us to witness what they read from B&D, some of whom are from countries where English is not common language. As result we have increased the number of our beekeeping friends and we are confident many more are coming.

At Njiro we encourage people to practise sustainable beekeeping through appropriate technology and we are proud of our universal beekeeping messenger and courier B&D.

Congratulations from all of us at Njiro!

Werner Lohr, API-Promo GTZ, Germany

Congratulations on the 50th edition of Beekeeping Development

The number of your readers is increasing all the time. The layout is getting even better with each edition. We can only recommend to readers: make your own experience, write about it and give it to other people. B&D is ideal for this!

Dear Bees for Development team keep on working as you have done up to now! Best wishes for the future and kind regards

E H Thorne (Beehives) Ltd

Congratulations on your 50th issue. Keep up the good work!

Cymdeithas Gwenynwyr Cymru

Pleased to support the Bees for Development venture to aid beekeeping in developing countries.

Bee Improvement & Bee Breeders Association

Bees, through pollination, feed the World’s millions

Devon Beekeepers' Association

Congratulations

Swedish Beekeeper's Association

Congratulations

National Honey Show

Congratulations

Danish Beekeepers Association

Congratulations

Professor John B Free CMG, United Kingdom

have asked for, and been granted the privilege of writing few words about the achievement of reaching the 50th edition of B&D. Few of us know how great this achievement has been and the intensity of the struggle involved in the early stages.

Nowadays it is great to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of any special publication. To do so means that the publication is well written, immensely readable, the material it contains is along the right lines, is wanted by the readership and is presented in suitable style. All of this is true for B&D, but it must be especially so because the majority of the readership is financially poor and some even need financial support to purchase the journal.

Bees for Development is coping with the difficulty of distributing journal to beekeepers that live in remote areas of often poor countries, and who often lack money to pay. And yet, the copies of B&D are amongst the most treasured possession of beekeepers, as am able to verify from past experience.

Dr Nicola Bradbear has had practical beekeeping experience in many tropical countries and is ideally placed to impart beekeeping knowledge. She has dedicated herself to improving beekeeping and the quality of life throughout the world. Bees for Development has not only kept financially viable, but is increasing in staff, and their organisation is not only thriving but provides the only beekeeping expertise in the tropics available in the United Kingdom. have never known any individuals to display such fortitude and dedication in continuing with their work, and so helping beekeeping in the developing world. This has quite rightly attracted grants from CTA, DANIDA, DFID, FAO, GTZ and other organisations.

We congratulate Nicola and Helen on B&D, and on their other beekeeping and advisory work and wish them every success in the future.

Finnish Beekeeper's Association

Congratulations

Md Abdul Alim Bhuiyan, Bangladesh

B&D is a very good journal for every beekeeper in the world, especially for me.

Gladstone Solomon, B&D's Correspondent in Tobago

I wish to express my personal gratitude, and the appreciation of the co-hosts of the First Caribbean Beekeeping Congress, the Tobago Apicultural Society and the Tobago House of Assembly, for the valued assistance received from Bees for Development during the planning and staging of the recently concluded Congress.

The decision to stage the First Caribbean Beekeeping Congress was greatly influenced by the tremendous contribution to beekeeping development in rural communities by the co-founders of Bees for Development, Dr Nicola Bradbear and Ms Helen Jackson, whose work has and continues to be source of inspiration to many beekeepers throughout the developing world.

Strainaway® Garn Products

Congratulations

International Mail Direct Ltd

Delighted to help Bees for Development with international mailing requirements

Keystone Foundation, Nilgiris, India

B&D is unique. We wish the team more years of useful and effective information-processing and dissemination to lot of people and projects all over the world. This journal carries knowledge which is relevant, easy to comprehend and applicable to several regions and situations.

The National Bee Unit

Congratulations

Jorge Murillo-Yepes, B&D's Correspondent in Grenada

Milestones and Milestones: In rather arbitrary fashion, we humans assign particular importance to dates and events marked with figure followed by one or more zeros. Some such occasions occur in an inexorable and totally effortless way, such as person’s 40th or 80th birthday, or the impending millennium (Y2K, just to be “in”), Other milestones, however, come about as result of great amounts of tireless toil and unselfish dedication by individuals and teams with vision.

The 50th issue of B&D is shining example of this type of milestone, in as much as what may have been considered by some few years ago as an almost desperate Plan B, has become the beacon for the promotion of apiculture in the Developing World, as rational way to help Humankind to see life from the Planet’s point of view.

Dear Nicola and Helen, let us go for the next 50!

Margaret Rose Ogaba, B&D's Correspondent in Uganda, and Chairwoman, Kitgum Women Beekeeper's Association

Special 50th edition of BED.

May B&D live to be 101

May your advert reach all corners

Long live the bees race

Long live all beekeepers!

Norwegian Beekeepers' Association

Congratulations

Gwent Beekeepers; Association

Congratulations on your good work

Vincent Mulder, President, NECTAR (Netherlands Expertise Centre for Tropical Apicultural Resources)

We want to express our warmest wishes of congratulations to the crew of Bees for Development on the occasion of the 50th issue of B&D. You have endeavoured and fulfilled great task in reaching beekeepers in remote and almost unaccessible places. witnessed myself the arrival of your 'Beekeepers’ magazine’ in the house of Vietnamese beekeeper, living eight hours travel from the nearest Post Office. The joy it gave and the way he shared this magazine with fellow beekeepers showed me the great importance of it. The content always brings beekeepers closer together. We hope you will be able to circulate the 500th issue as well!!

NECTAR wishes to contribute and co-operate much more with you in future. Your readers are the people we want to get in touch with.