Bookshelf

LIVING WITH BEES

Franc Sivic

2003 100 pages Text in English, French, German, Italian, Slovenian and Spanish. Hardcover £18.50 (€27.80) Code $510

A beautiful book about Slovenia where four out of every 1000 inhabitants are beekeepers. Colour photographs accompany the six-language text offering succinct and interesting details including the history of beekeeping, the work of the renowned beekeeping teacher Anton Jagna, information about the indigenous Carniolan bee, migratory beekeeping, and the famous painted hive fronts. The final chapter of glorious colour photographs depict 'the bee in flight’.

DES ABEILLES ET DES HOMMES

edited by Miel Maya Honing

2003 224 pages Text in French (Code M250) or Dutch (Code M255) editions £16 (€24) each

This is a book about honey, apiculture in Mexico, and the work of a Belgian organisation, Miel Maya Honing, to achieve fair trade of the honey.

The book consists of five parts. The first part (four chapters) provides an introduction to honey and basic apicultural information necessary to understand the work of beekeepers. The second part (five chapters) describes the situation of beekeepers and apiculture in Mexico: case studies showing the value of beekeeping for sustainable development, and the marketing of honey. The third part (three chapters) describes the world market for honey, trade within Europe, and the effect of globalisation for Mexico's trade. The fourth part (six chapters) provides information on fair trade, the organisations that promote it with discussion of fair prices, how to arrive at them, and their social impact. The final part of the book (three chapters) describes Fairtrade in general, and in particular Miel Maya Honing's success with honey trade in Belgium and other European countries.

This book will be informative for everyone interested in co-operation and development, and alternative approaches to trade.

DVD's and CD's

The video An introduction to keeping bees (Second Sight Productions) reviewed in BfDJ 65 is now available in DVD format. To order use code VID24A The cost is £19.90 (€29.30).

Paul Latham has produced a CD with both the English and French editions of the booklet Apiculture en Bas-Congo/ Beekeeping in Bas Congo that we reviewed in BfDJ 69. The cost is £16.80 (€25.20) Code VID29

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