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BRAZIL

XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Apicultura - Combrapi 2002 (XIV Brazilian Apicultural Congress)

16-20 July 2002, Campo Grande

Further details from:www.congressodeapicultura.com.br

GERMANY

First German Apitherapy Congress

23-24 March 2002, Passau

(note new dates)

Further details from:

Dr Stefan Stangaciu, Congress President

E-mail: drstangaciu@apitherapy.com www.apitherapie.de

APIMONDIA Symposium: Beekeeping without the use of medical drugs

10-11 October 2002, Celle

Further details from: Dr Wolfgang Ritter

E-mail: info@bieneninstitut.de www.bieneninstitut.de

INDIA

6th Asian Apicultural Association Conference

24 Feb - 1 March 2002, Bangalore

Further details from: 6th AAA Conference, c/o Century Foundation

E-mail: cenfound@sparrl.com www.beekeeping.com/aaa

Sustainable Development Summit 2002 Ensuring Sustainable Livelihoods

9-11 February 2002, Delhi

Further details from: The Summit Secretariat

Fax (+91) 468 2144

E-mail: program@teri.res.in

ITALY

World Food Summit Five Years Later

November 2001, FAO, Rome

Further details from: www.fao.org

Vlllth International Symposium on Hazards of Pesticides to Bees

4-6 September 2002, Bologna

Further details from: Dr Claudio

Porrini, Fax +39 (0)51 251052

E-mail: cporrini@entom.agrsci.unibo.it

JAMAICA

Third Caribbean Beekeeping Congress

Scheduled to take place in 2002:

The details will be published in B&D when we receive them

JAPAN

XIV International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI)

28 July - 3 August 2002, Sapporo

Further details-from: Professor Seigo

www.coop.hokudai.ac.jp/gakkai/iussi2002/

MALAYSIA

Symposium on Stakeholders of the Giant Honeybees

March 2002, Pedu Lake

Further details from: Dr Makhdzir Mardan, BEENET ASIA

www.bee.upm.edu.my/gianthoneybee2002

MEXICO

Il Seminario Mexicano sobre Abejas sin Aguijon

(2nd Mexican Stingless Bee Seminar)

9-10 November 2001, Mérida

E-mail: qeuan@tunku.uady.mx

RUSSIA

Intermiod 2001 2nd Exhibition on Beekeeping

12-16 September 2001, Moscow

E-mail: expostroy@expostroy.ru

SLOVENIA

XXXVIII APIMONDIA International Apicultural Congress

24-29 August 2003, Ljubljana

Further details from:

www.apimondia2003.com

SOUTH AFRICA

XXXVll APIMONDIA International Apicultural Congress

28 October - 1 November 2001, Durban

Further details from: Apimondia

www.apimondia2001.com

World Summit Rio + 10

15-17 November 2001, London

Further details from: Rev F Capener, Honorary General Secretary

E-mail nathon@zbee.com

www.honeyshow.co.uk

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KENYA

Short Course

14-19 October 2001, Molo

Further details from: Baraka College, Beekeeping Development Unit

Fax (+254) 363 21100

E-mail: baraka@net2000ke.com

MEXICO

Biologia y reproduccién de meliponinos (Biology and colony multiplication

7-8 November 2001, Mérida

This course is running before the Seminar on stingless bees. Contact details as above.

UNITED KINGDOM/TANZANIA

Beekeeping in Rural Development Training Course

July 2002, Cardiff University and Njiro Wildlife Research Centre

Further details from: Bees for Development