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AAA was established in 1992 to encourage exchange of information between beekeepers and bee scientists in Asia. Contact Ms Hitomi Enomoto at the Administrative Office of AAA in Japan for more details and for the local representative in your country. Email HSRC@arg.tamagawa.ac.jp. There is also AAA information on the BfD website.

Bees for Development Journal is proud to be the official AAA Newsletter.

Api-Expo encouraged the spirit of the international beekeeping festival

PHOTO © 2010 AAA CONFERENCE

Malaysia won the bid

Malaysia won the bid to host the next AAA Conference, scheduled for 28 September - 3 October 2012. The venue will be Primula Hotelin Kuala Terengganu, with pre and post-conference tours to visit the rainforest. It is hoped that His Majesty The Sultan of Terengganu is most likely to visit the Conference.

Professor Makhdzir Mardan, Local Organising Committee

Further details about the next Conference will be published as we receive them here in BfD Journal

Sophisticated presentation of South Korean honey

Professor Makhdzir Mardan wins his bid to host the next AAA Conference in Malaysia (see left, top)

APIMONDIA

PLEASE NOTE THIS IMPORTANT DATE: If you intend to present a paper or poster at the forthcoming Apimondia Congress in Buenos Aires Argentina 21-25 September 2011, then you must submit your abstract before 10 March. All the necessary information is at the website www.apimondia2011.com and follow links to abstract submission.

APITRADE AFRICA

At the ApiTrade Africa meeting in Zambia October 2010, Ethiopia won the bid to host the 3rd ApiExpo Africa event which will take place in 2012, and will be organised in collaboration with the Ethiopia Apiculture Board and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

ApiTrade Africa will hold its 3rd Annual General Meeting in Addis Ababa on 29 March 2011. This will be followed by a meeting the next day between the Executive Committee of ApiTrade Africa and sector stakeholders. The purpose of the meeting is to kick-start planning and set up the Local Organising Committee and mobilisation campaigns.

For more information please visit www.apitradeafrica.org

ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN BEEKEEPERS ORGANISATIONS (ACBO) 6th Caribbean Beekeeping Congress

PLEASE NOTE RESCHEDULED DATES 23-27 May 2011

ORGANISED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF GRENADA in collaboration with Grenada Association of Beekeepers, ACBO, St George’s University

This is an important Caribbean event which attracts many participants from the region and beyond

The Congress is a unique occasion to enable Caribbean beekeepers, researchers and organisations to meet one another and share knowledge and skills. Scientists and experts will facilitate Workshops during the Congress.

www.6cbcgrenada.gd