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Nineteen participants had hands-on practice in producing soaps using beeswax, honey, locally processed bay oil, aloe vera, and other natural ingredients. Participants were chosen on the basis of their demonstrated desire to pursue value added manufacture of locally made products. The Workshop was the first in a series of joint TAS/TIDCO initiatives for beekeepers that are designed to develop new value-added
Beekeepers will benefit from this product that can be collected from their own fields close to their homes. The leaves, roots and seed husks make good animal feed, and the tender green leaves and green beans make excellent vegetables for people. onge grows well in sandy and dry areas where other crops cannot grow. It is a blessing to have the seeds in Tabora where lack of rain is such a major problem.| hope honey and beeswax collection will increase and that Tabora
Beekeepers’ Co-operative Society will benefit from the collection of honey and beeswax in the villages, rather than the collection of "wild" honey. Justin Madaha,
B&D’s
Correspondent in Tanzania
look ahead ARGENTINA International Congress on Propolis
|-2 September 2000, Buenos Aires Further details from: Ing Alejandro Alvarez,
Secretary of Scientific Committee, PROAPI, INTA EEA Famailla, Casilla de Correo ||, Famailla (4132), Tucuman, Argentina E-mail alvarez@inta.gov.ar
de Apicultura (13th Brazilian Apiculture Congress)
14-17 November, 2000, Floriandpolis Further details from: Secretaria Geral-FAASC, Rodovia
Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Tolerance in Honeybees
8th International Symposium on Pollination Further details from: Professor P Benedek, Faculty of of Agriculture, Pannon University Agricultural Sciences, H9201 Mosonmayarovar, var 4, Hungary
INDIA
2002, Bangalore
AAA, Tamagawa University, Machida-Shi, Tokyo 194 8610, Japan. E-mail HSRC@agr.tamagawa.ac.jp
Further details from:
16-18 November 2000, London Further details from: Rev Francis Capener, Baldric Close, Folkestone,
RUSSIA
E-mail nathon@zbee.com
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CT20 2NR, United Kingdom
Improving What We Have |-4 September 2000, Sheffield Further details from: Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders’ Association, c/o Tom Robinson, 71 York YO|
AJP United Kingdom
Broadway,
E-mail expostroy@expostroy.ru
ZAMBIA
SLOVENIA
Alternative Trade and Ecolabelling in Miombo Woodlands
24-29 August 2003, Ljubljana Further details from: Cebelarska Zveza Slovenije, Cankarjeva 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia E-mail cebelarska.zveza.slo@siol.net
25 June — July 2000, Kabompo Further details from: www.miombo.com
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HUNGARY
6th AAA Conference
National Honey Show
14-18 August 2000, Four Seasons Resort Further details from: Congress Secretariat, Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Housing & Co-operatives, Main Street, Charlestown, Nevis E-mail psalhc@hotmail.com
www.apimondia2001.com
Libcice nad Vitavou, Czech Republic E-mail beedol@beedol.cz_ www.beedol.cz
July 2000, Mosonmayarovar
UNITED KINGDOM
|-7 September 2001, Durban Further details from: Apimondia 2001, Conference Planners, PO Box 82, Irene 0062, South Africa
CZECH REPUBLIC
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NEVIS Second Caribbean Beekeeping Congress
SOUTH AFRICA XXXVII Apimondia Congress
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Over 50 participants gathered at Long Ashton Research Station near Bristol in April for a one day meeting on The Role of Beekeeping in Development Programmes. The Seminar was organised jointly by Bees for Development and the Tropical Agriculture Association. A number of international speakers presented details of projects in Cameroon, DR Congo, Kenya, the Middle East, Zanzibar and Zimbabwe. Clive de Bruyn who wrote about GM crops in B&D54 presented a paper on GM crops and their effect on pollination. Bees for Development’s involvement was sponsored by the DFID Cyfanfyd Development Awareness Programme.
XXXVI Apimondia Congress
BRAZIL XII Congreso Brasileiro
17-19 October 2000, Kralupy (near Prague) Further details from: Bee Research Institute Dol,
Gladstone Solomon, B&D’s Correspondent in Tobago, and President of Tobago Apicultural Society
2-6 September 2000, Moscow Further details from: Exhibition Complex, Nakhimovsky prospekt 24, 117218 Moscow, Russia
Zu October 2000, Brussels Further details from: Benoit Olivier, Miel Maya Honig asbl, Maya Fair Trading asbl, rue du Mont, 13, B-4130 Esneux, Belgium E-mail mielmayahonig@euronet.be
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products. The initiatives being pursued are consistent with the resolutions on “business P practices and P profitability” Ppassed at the First Caribbean Beekeepin, ping Congress held in November 1998.
Intermiod 2000 Exhibition and Conference on Beekeeping and Hive Products
iLGIUM ir Trade Seminar
Virgilio Varzea, 2554 Saco Grande Floriandpolis SC, Brazil
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The Tobago Apicultural Society and the Tourism and Industrial Development Company co-hosted a three-day Workshop on soap makingin Scarboroughin February 2000. The Workshop was facilitated by Florida International Volunteer Corps who contracted Debra Graybeal from the USA to conduct the Workshop.
4th International Conference on the Black Bee 19-24 August 2000, Dalsland Further information from: Ingvar Arvidsson Angemyrsgatan 5, SE 66631 Bengtsfors, Sweden E-mail ingvar.arvidsson@telia.com
TURKEY
Harvesting of Non-Wood Forest Products
2-8 October 2000, Ismir Further details from: Dr Rudolph Heinrich E-mail rudolf.heinrich@fao.org
UNITED KINGDOM Sustainable Livelihoods: Exploring the Role of Beekeeping in Development
18-20 September 2000, University of Wales, Swansea Further details from: Bees for Development
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KENYA
Short Course Programme in Beekeeping 20-26 August or 26 November-2 December 2000, Molo Further details from: The Principal, Baraka Agricultural College, Box 52, Molo, Kenya E-mail baraka@net2000ke.com
TANZANIA Short Course in Beekeeping
9-12 August 2000, Tunduru, Ruvuma Region Further details from: Ms Inge Danzeisen, CMML, PO Box 1424, Dodoma, Tanzania E-mail CMML-Dodoma@maf.org
UK/TANZANIA
Beekeeping in Rural Development Training Course 10 July — 4 August 2000, Cardiff University and Nijiro Wildlife Research Centre Further details from: Bees for Development If you want details of your conference, workshop or meeting to be included here and on our website write to
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