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Bees for Development Journal
Notice Board PROJECT PROFILES REQUESTED Show the visitors to Amsterdam Zoo the importance of beekeeping for the lives and well-being of rural communities! Send us your project profile and history on a postcard, photograph or drawing. The collection will be shown during the Educational Exhibition on Beekeeping for Rural Development. Make sure we have your information by 20 July 2003. Postal address: E Michaelis, Vinkenstraat 125 |, 1013 Amsterdam, Netherlands (see also Look Ahead, page 7)
HONEY FOR SALE We are writing from Guinea Bissau. We have a large quantity of honey for sale and are interested to hear from buyers. Contact: Aji Pierre Dasilva
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TAKE NOTE Bees for Development features in the May 2003 edition of The Ecologist: the influential environmental magazine. See: Volume 33, N°4: 54-55
PROJECT SUPPORT FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, supports beekeeping projects in developing countries. For projects with budgets under
US$10,000, beekeepers’ groups and associations may apply for small project funding from the TeleFood Special Fund. Request documents should include a brief description of the project's objectives, the proposed food production or incomegenerating activities, the work plan, the number of participants, a detailed list of inputs with cost estimates and the reporting arrangements. Submit your request to the office of FAO or UNDP in your country. Applications for projects with budgets over US$10,000 must be submitted through a Government Ministry. See www.fao.org. BEEKEEPERS' SAFARIS Friendly holidays run in co-operation with overseas partners as part of Bees for Development's work to raise awareness of beekeeping in development. Safari to Tobago and Trinidad 8-17 March 2004 Safari to South India dates to be confirmed Details from Bees for Development and on our website
REGISTER YOUR PROTEST Less than 3% of Kenya's land is forested and the Government has authorised the destruction of more than 170,000 acres of remaining forest. Even in our long history of forest destruction, the massive scale of these excisions is unprecedented. And they will be disastrous for all of us. Our country desperately needs to keep the forests we have left. Without them, droughts will get worse, power shortages will increase, food production will suffer, and tourism will decline. If we do not protect our remaining forests, Kenya will become progressively thirstier, hungrier, uglier and poorer. Join the fight to save our forests. Kenya Forests Working Group PO Box 20110, Nairobi
MEETING INFORMATION Bees for Development helps projects in developing countries with copies of BfD Journal and other information for use at training courses and workshops. We must receive notice and number of participants at least three months ahead of the meeting date. Organisations with some resources available can order o Workshop Box for per 25 participants, including surface mail delivery. See ways to pay on page 15.
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ANTENNAE UP You are invited to send articles and information for possible inclusion in a future edition of BD Journal.
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Please do not scan multiple images and send them as one file. We require separate files for each image. Each file must be clearly identified in relation to any caption required. Photographs: Please provide prints and not transparencies.
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GLOBAL THOUGHTS The First International START Young Scientists’ Global Change Conference takes place in November 2003. Young scientists (under 35) are invited to submit presentations on the physical, biological and human aspects of global change. Read: www.start.org/Feilowships/ YS_Conference.html
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