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Apiculture gives some of the world's poorest people the opportunity to enhance their income. To be able to do this they need to understand appropriate beekeeping methods for the place where they live. Methods will vary with the location and the resources available for beekeeping. Although the beekeeping sector is fast evolving the most vulnerable people frequently have the least access to the beekeeping information they need. Good quality training will demonstrate how livelihoods might be improved by using affordable beekeeping methods or by maximising the value of the products that can be achieved with the resources available to producers.
Beekeeping trainers need knowledge of beekeeping and also knowledge of teaching. Good training must be interesting, motivating and useful. Training courses need to be tailored to meet the needs and learning abilities of the participants. Learning is always best achieved by doing, therefore workshops and training programmes should be designed to ensure that people participate actively and try things about for themselves. Safety of people should be taken into consideration for all practical courses.
Effective training courses require careful planning and follow-up. Failing to plan is planning to fail. It is often useful to incorporate some form of assessment within a training programme as this verifies to both trainer and students that learning outcomes have been achieved. By the end of a training course participants must be clear about the next steps they need to take in order to implement their new knowledge. Profitable beekeeping is a practical skill and people learn practical skills best by trying them out for themselves. The best training courses are designed so that people leave understanding the steps they will need to take to make full use of the information they have learned.
Training topics which are relevant to those engaged in beekeeping in developing countries include: beekeeping, basic business skills, marketing, making added-value products and running successful clubs and associations.
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List of Articles available on this topic (70):
Title | Author |
A Manual for Trainers of Small Scale Beekeeping Development Workers | Gentry, C., Rice, R.C., Sommer, C. & Wilburn, M.E. |
A Trainer\'s Box of Tricks | Pedley, A. |
Appropriate extension messages - DFID working in Kenya | Bees for Development |
Audio-Visual Aids for Cooperative Education and Training | Botham, C.N. |
Audio-Visual Communication Handbook | Pett, D.W. |
Basic Finance for Marketers | FAO |
Bee virus investigator wins Vita Research Award | Bees for Development |
Beekeeper Trainers\' Resource Book | Shukla, A. N. |
Beekeeping Development in the Central African Republic | Debold K J |
Beekeeping for Rural Development : A Uganda Case | R Owot |
Beekeeping in Ghana: on the road in Africa doing developmental beekeeping demonstrations | Berube, C. |
Beekeeping Service and Development Centre - Informationa Leaflet | BSDC |
Beekeeping Training and Extension Support Project: Project Document | Paxton, R.J. |
Beekeeping Training for Farmers in the Himalayas | Gurung M., Partap U., Shrestha N., Sharma H., Islam N., Tamang N. |
Beekeeping Training Manual (For Beginners) | Mishra, R.C. |
Beekeeping: and Appropriate Technology | Negi, S.S. |
Beekeeping: Assistance for GCSE Students | Phipps, J. |
Caucasian honey bee workshop | Bees for Development |
Chinese Eastern Bee Research Institute invites correspondence | Anon |
Craft aid in Rodrigues: bees and disabled people | Draper, P. & Duggan, M. |
Development and Implementation of an Undergraduate Beekeeping Program at Makerere University | J E Tew |
Documenting, Evaluating and Learning from our Development Projects: a Participatory Systemization Workbook | Selener, D. |
Draft of an Economic Evaluation of Danmarks Biavlerforening (DBF) Supervised Beekeeping Project (funded by Danida) in Guinea Bissau, West Africa | Maane, J.S.M. |
Economics of Beekeeping Industry | Justus, E.R. |
Education, Repression & Liberation: Namibia | Ellis, J. |
Educational Aids on Apiculture | IBRA |
Empowering the Rural Disabled | FAO |
Farm Planning and Management for Trainers of Extension Workers in the Caribbean | FAO |
Final Report (first evaluation): Honey Beekeeping Development project - UGANDA | Helmut Horn |
Final Report of the Workshop on Some Basic Elements of Beefarming at Cooperative College, Bamenda | NOWEBA |
Follow-up mission on the evaluation of DBF supervised (DANIDA funded) beekeeping project in Guinea-Bissau 31.09.01-09.10.01 | Maane, J |
Forest Products and Household Incomes: A Review and Annotated Bibliography | Townson, I.M. |
Gender and organisational change training manual | Groverman,V & Gurung,J D |
Haiti Beekeeping Mission | Geckler, S. |
Handbook for Development Workers Overseas: some questions to consider before, during and after a period of employment in the Third World | Roberts, G. |
How to Make and Use Visual Aids: a VSO Book | Harford, N. & Baird, N. |
Humanity Development Library 2.0: for sustainable development and basic human needs. 1 230 publications, 30 000 images, 160 000 pages | Humanity Development Library |
Indonesia: Country Statement - Presented at Workshop in Research and Development on Beekeeping in Tropical Asia | Hadisoesilo, S. |
Integrating Environmental and Economic Accounting at the Farm Level | FAO |
International Workshop on Non-Apis Bees and their Role as Crop Pollinators | Larson, J.H., Tepedino, V.J., Torchio, P.F. & Vandenburg, J.D. |
Introductory Apiculture Course 34-221: The Biology of Honey Bees | Kevan, P.G. & Dabrowska-Miciula, E. |
Learning from Rural Women: A Manual for Village-Level Training to Promote Women\'s Activities in Marketing | FAO |
Lesson Plans for Beekeeping in the Philippines | Sammataro, D. |
Livelihoods Diversification and Enterprise Development | FAO |
Lower costs for learners | Akukumah, N. |
Manual for Appropriate Beekeeping in Zambia | Smallholder Development Project |
May Newsletter 2009 | Apoolo na Angor |
Observational hives: educational beekeeping | Caron, D.M. |
Opportunities for Training in Apiculture World-wide | IBRA |
Participatory Learning & Action 54: Mapping for Change | IIED & CTA |
Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire Known as \"The Bee Charmer\" | McCarty J |
Practical Manual on Beekeeping | Gupta, JK; Sharma, HK; Thakur, RK. |
Proceedings of a workshop to develop strategies to address research issues identified in the National Forest and beekeeping programmes | Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism |
Proceedings of the Aushra Workshop on Land Policy | Bruce, J. et al |
Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? | Siegel, T. & Betz, J. |
Research and Training Results: Activities to Improve Traditional Honey and Beeswax Harvest and Post Harvest Practices | Jumhur, A. & Wickham, T. |
Science for Self Reliance | Society for Technology & Development |
SEAGA - Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis Programme - Field Handbook | Wilde, V (FAO) |
Selection of Visual Aids | IBRA |
Sericulture Training Manual | Lee, S.P., Lim, S.H. & Kim, Y.T. |
Starting a cooperative: Farmer-controlled economic initiatives | Koopmans, R. |
Starting with Bees: An Introduction to African Beekeeping | Nazzi, F., Annoscia, D., Del Fabbro, S., Del Piccolo, F. |
The BBKA Guide to Beekeeping | Davis, I. & Cullum-Kenyon, R. |
The Birth of Itumbauzo Beekeepers Association | Eaton, P. |
The Kom beekeeping project | Kenneth, C. and Gregory, P. |
Top Tips for Trainers. Principles of beekeeping training | Clauss, B. |
Training in Malta | Ball, R |
Training women trainers | Fry, M |
UWESO UK Trust Newsletter - Issue 3 | |
Zooming in on ... China | ANON |