What's on

-LOOK AHEAD-

ARGENTINA

APIMONDIA 42nd International Apicultural Congress

Takes place in 2011, Buenos Aires

Dates and details will appear here

BRAZIL

Congresso Brasileiro: XVIII Apicultura & IV Meliponicultura

2010, Cuiaba

Further details will appear here

10th Congreso Iberolatinamericano de Apicultura

2010, Rio Grande do Norte

Details to be announced

COLOMBIA

XIV Encuentro Colombiano de Apicultores/ Ill Seminario Apicola de los Andes

14-17 November 2008, Pereira - RisaraldaFurther details apiencuentro2008@gmail.com

CHINA

9th AAA Conference

1-4 November 2008, Hangzhou, Zhe jiang

CUBA

3° Congreso Cubano de Apicultura

9-13 March 2009, Ciudad de la Habana

Further details congreso2009@eeapi.cu

DENMARK

Danish Beekeeping Conference: climate change, pollinators, pollination & beekeeping

30 January - 1 February 2009, Copenhagen

Further details www.biavl.dk

FRANCE

APIMONDIA 41st International Apicultural Congress

15-20 September 2009, Montpellier

Further details www.apimondia2009.com

GERMANY

2nd OIE Symposium Diagnosis and control of bee diseases

26-28 August 2008, Freiburg

Further details www.beehealth.info

GUYANA

5th Caribbean Beekeeping Congress

9-14 November 2008, Georgetown

INDIA

Bees, Biodiversity and Livelihoods Conference

27-29 March 2009, Conoor, The Nilgiris

Further details www.beestordevelopment.org

ITALY

Terra Madre

23-27 October 2008, Turin

Further details www.terramadre. info

MEXICO

APIMONDIA: 2nd World Symposium of queen bee breeders

15-18 October 2008, Nuevo Vallarta

Further details www.apimondia.org

PAKISTAN

2nd International Conference on Medicinal Uses of Honey

10-12 November 2008, Lahore

Further details www.honeyconference.com

ROMANIA

Apimondia Symposium: good management & good beekeeping practice

11-14 September 2008, Bucharest

Further details www.apimondia.org

10th International Symposium Hazards of pesticides to bees

8-10 October 2008, Bucharest

Further details H. Thompson@cs!.gov.uk

RWANDA

2nd ApiTrade Africa AGM

February 2009, Kigali

Further details www.apitradeatrica.org

SAUDI ARABIA

6th International Arab Apiculture Conference

17-19 March 2009, Riyadh

Further details www.Saudibi.com

TANZANIA

3rd National Honey Show

Last week, September 2008, Dodoma

Further details www.tanzaniahoney.org

UGANDA

ApiTrade Africa All Africa Apiculture Expo

22-25 October 2008, Kampala

Further details www.apitradeafrica.org

UK

80th MSWC Convention

5-7 September 2008, Abergavenny

Further details www.beeconference.org.uk

EurBee3

8-11 September 2008, Belfast

Further details www.eurbee.org

National Honey Show

30 October - 1 November 2008, Weybridge

Further details www.honeyshow.co.uk

If you want notice of your conference, workshop or meeting to be included here and on our website send details to Bees for Development, address on page 16

-LEARN AHEAD-

BfD ONE DAY TRAINING

Strengthening livelihoods by means of beekeeping - An introduction

21 November 2008, Monmouth

BfD BEEKEEPERS’ SAFARIS

Tanzania 13-17 November 2008

Trinidad & Tobago 2-12 February 2009

Further details on our website

KENYA

Making beekeeping equipment

28 September - 4 October 2008, Baraka

Further details www.apiconsult.com