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Apiculture provides some of the world's poorest people with the opportunity to enhance their income from the practical and often indigenous skills of beekeeping. The best known products harvested from bees are honey and beeswax and selling honey and beeswax offers the best business opportunities for small scale beekeepers in developing countries. However, other bee products such as propolis, pollen, bee venom and royal jelly are also harvested in some countries. With an increasing interest in natural ingredients and a growing understanding of the medicinal value and uses of bee products, the demand for these products is expanding. There is new interest worldwide in the therapeutic values of honey and propolis.
There are many ways to add greater value to bee products, such as producing candles or cosmetics, so it is possible to develop opportunities for small business enterprises. Adding value to bee products also leads to diversified incomes and more sustainable livelihoods for vulnerable people in developing countries, while increasing the availability of natural, healthy and medicinal products for local and international consumers. Value added items can be made by people who are not beekeepers, and may create a special opportunity for women to profit from their traditional skills.
Beekeeping can also generate associated industries such as the manufacture of beekeeping equipment, including bee hives, smokers and protective clothing. Bees and/or pollination services are also traded and may be very valuable.
It is mainly bees of the genus Apis that produce significant quantities of honey and beeswax. Some stingless bees, from the subfamily Meliponini, are also exploited for honey. This honey is highly valued for its medicinal properties.
List of Articles available on this topic (129):
Title | Author |
A Book of Honey | Crane. E. |
A day in the life of Dinah Sweet : presenting a honey judge\'s workshop in Trinidad | Sweet, D. |
A solar wax extractor rebuild | Chapman, N. |
Abstract Proceedings: 11th Asian Apicultural Association Conference, ApiExpo & Workshop | Asian Apicultural Assocaition |
African honey trade workshop (no.81) | Bees for Development |
Alkane composition variations between darker and lighter coloured comb beeswax | Namdar, D., Neumann, R., Sladezki, Y., Haddad, N. and Weiner, S. |
An estimate of honey and beeswax production in the North-Western province | Mulenga, K.B. |
Analysis of Welsh Nectar Sources | Roberts, P. |
Ani introduction to high-yielding royal jelly production methods in China | Chen, S., Su, S., Lin, X. |
Apitherapy | Dalby, P., Dalby, B. |
Apitherapy - Uses here and now, and yet to come | Harman, A. |
Apitrade Africa meets in Arusha | Bees for Development |
Backyard Beekeeping and Honey Production | Rant, P. |
Bee Health: the Revitalizing Power of Propolis, Royal Jelly and Pollen | Walji, H. |
Bee Produce | Herrod-Hempsall, W |
Bee products in Ethiopia | Bees for Development |
Bee products: properties, processing and marketing | CTA |
Beekeeping and sustainable livelihoods: FAO diversification booklet 1 | Bradbear, N. |
Beekeeping for people living in countries under stress: Afghanistan | Dr Nicola Bradbear |
Beekeeping in the Amhara Region | Kebede, A., Ejigu, K., Aynalem, T., Jenberie, A |
Beekeeping Round the World Hong Kong | Dziadyk, A. |
Beekeeping: Digest of Selected Literature on Beekeeping, Honey and Beewax Processing | Bassey, I.H. |
Bees and their role in forest livelihoods: a guide to the services provided by bees and the sustainable harvesting, processing and marketing of their products | Bradbear, N. |
Bees in the miombo | Madeleen Husselman, Moira Moeliono and Fiona Paumgarten |
Beeswax | Davis, C. |
Beeswax and Honey Production: The Nyasaland Potential (Malawi) | Sheriff. J.S. |
Beeswax Candles | Furness, C |
Beeswax candles with a difference | Hughes, J. |
Beeswax Crafting | Berthold, R. Jr |
Beeswax crafts: Candlemaking, Modelling, Beauty Creams, Soap and Polishes, Encaustic Art and Wax Crayons | Battershill, N., Constable, D., Crouch, L., Duffin, L. & Pinder, P. |
Beeswax from the Apiary | ADAS |
Beeswax: quality issues today | Bogdanov, S. |
Beginner\'s Guide to Candlemaking | Constable, D. |
Burma Beekeeping News 1988 | |
Buzz on cholesterol - lowering beeswax is promising | Graham, J.M. |
Cancer, Royal Jelly, Instrumental Insemination | Watchdog |
Candle Making | Garner, L |
Candle Making : Leisure Crafts | Collings, A., Constable, D. & Marr, R. |
Creative Batik | Robinson, R |
Curative Properties of Bee Pollen: New Methods of Collection and Processing Bee Pollen Atlas | Saadatmand, S.J. & Daraei, S. |
Eat Honey | Baraka Agriculture College, Kenya |
Evaluation of Brazilian propolis by both physiochemical methods and biological activity | Pak, Y.K., Ikegaki, M., Alencar, Moura, F.F. |
Extraction and purification of beeswax | Chhuneja, P.K., Singh, R., Singh, J. |
Feeding Bees | ADAS |
Finest beeswax candles? | Riches, H. |
Food For the Future | Wynne-Tyson, J. |
Gale\'s Honey Book | Jones, B. |
Granulated or Crystalized Honey | Tonsley, C.C. |
Granulated or Crystallized Honey | Tonsley, C C |
Guiding Hope Business Award Press Release | Guiding Hope |
Henry\'s Bee Herbals - Modern Applications of Honey Therapy | Rowsell, H & MacFarlane, H |
Historical evolution of Chinese apitherapy and healthc car - Part 2 of 3 | Jlanke, L., Zihong, Y., Aiping, W. |
Hive Products/Solitary Bees/Solar Wax extraction | Angie Twydall/David Baldock/Dr Chris Coulson |
Home Honey Production | Bielby, W.B. |
Honey - A Practical Manual for African Community Beekeepers | Towry-Coker, S. |
Honey - a viable medicine for rural folk | Maruthi, I., Murthy, T.H. |
Honey - From Hive to Honeypot | Style, S |
Honey and Bee Products Market Study in Cameroon | Erasmus, T., Hamaljoulde, D., Samaki, J., Njikeu, M.T., and Nyat, G.M. |
Honey and Beeswax: A compact study of the Netherlands and other major markets in the European Union | CBI |
Honey and Dust: Travels in Search of Sweetness | Moore, P. |
Honey and Health | Croft, L |
Honey and its Uses in China | Kellogg C R |
Honey Cakes and Biscuits | Wardle, M |
Honey Dreamin\' Maputaland | KZN Bee Farmers Association |
Honey for export | - |
Honey labelling regulations | Horgan, D. |
Honey labelling requirements | Davies, G. |
Honey of a brew | Burt, S. |
Honey production in Zambia | CIFOR |
Honey, beecomb and beeswax sold at public markets in Thailand | Watanabe, H. |
Honey: A Beekeeper\'s Guide | GTTV |
Honey: A Source of Nutrition, Medicine and Cash Income for Himalayan Farmers | Ahmad, F, Joshi SR and Gurung MB |
Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper | Marchese, C.M. |
Honeybees and Wax | Hepburn, H R |
How royal jelly maintains its quality within the colony | Jianke, L., Lan, Z., Boxiong, Z., Shenglu, C. |
India expands honey production | Flottum, N. |
Information for honey packers | Lowore, J. Bradbear, N. |
International Conference on: Bee Products: Properties, Applications and Apitherapy | |
Lost-Wax Casting | Feinberg, W. |
Low Productivity in East African Beekeeping | Njiro Wildlife Research Centre |
Madication for beekeeping | Metcalf, P. |
Making a solar extractor | Simon Rees |
Making cosmetics | Svensson, B. |
Manuka Honey - why so special? | Researchers at Waikato University |
Marketing Honey and Beeswax from Apis dorsata in West Kalimantan | Mulder, V.; Heri, V.; Wickham, T. |
Marketing Zambian honey in the German market | Kaitisha, F. |
Mazao ya Nyuki | Mutsaers, M. |
Mead and Meadmaking | Andrews, S.W. |
Minor Oil Crops: Edible Oils, Non-edible Oils and Essential Oils | Axtell, B.L. & Fairman, R.M. |
Natural antibiotic found in honey | Bradbear, N., Martin, P. & Wainwright, D. |
Natural Medicine from Honey Bees (Apitherapy): Propolis, Bee Venom, Royal Jelly, Pollen, Honey, Apilarnil | Kaal, J. |
Nicaragua and organic honey | Fert, G. |
North Western Bee Products Operations Handbook | Wainwright, D. |
Oilseed Rape and Bees | Calder, A |
Organic honey update: questions and concerns | Fulton, H. |
Poison honey | Winston, M. |
Practical Beekeeping - Body Cream using Beeswax | Ndichia, F. A. |
Practical Beekeeping - Honey: local tests and therapies | Olagbaju, E. |
Producing, Preparing, Exhibiting and Judging Bee Produce | Herrod-Hempsall, W |
Production of Bee Products and Marketing Promotion Workshop | Heifer International - Tanzania |
Quality and standards of pollen and beeswax | Aston, D |
Quality honey from affordable local- style hives | Mogga, J. |
Ragwort and honey | Ogden, B. |
Remarks on Beekeeping and other Agricultural Branches from China Part II - Shanghai and Guangzhou zones | Anon |
Robbing the Bees | Bishop, H. |
Royal jelly and human health | Jianke, L., Shenglu, C. |
Roysl jelly - a miraculous product from the bee hive? | Munstedt, K., Georgi, R von. |
Section honey production - How? When? and Why? | Canning, T. |
Selling Honey | Bonney, R. (ed) |
Showing Honey Products | Brown, R |
Soap Recipes | White, Elaine C. |
Strong competition drives down prices for US honey imports in 2004 | Parker, J. |
Super Formulas Arts and Crafts: How to make more than 360 useful products that contain honey and beeswax | White, E.C. |
Super Formulas: How to make more than 360 useful products that contain honey and beeswax | White, E.C. |
Taking stock & projecting apiculture value chains into the future in West and Central Africa: Win wins for livelihoods & conservation? | Verina Ingram |
The Honey Industry in Malawi & Beekeeping in Mzuzu | Munthali, S.C. & Chunga, C. |
The National Bee Keeping Training and Extension Manual | Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry & Fisheries |
The problem with Chinese honey: a synopsis | Lumpkin, D. |
Top-bar beekeeping in America | Crowder, L. |
Top-Bar Hive Beekeeping: Wisdom and Pleasure Combined | Mangum, W.A. |
Turning your beeswax into high profit products | Weaver, B., Weaver, M. |
US honey import prices | Parker, J.B. |
Using bees for apitherapy? Make or buy this bee hotel | JOhnson, D. |
Value-added products from beekeeping | Krell, R. |
Vietnam breeds high yielding bees | Parks, D. |
Vietnam: Beekeeping development and honey marketing | Phipps, R. |
Wax Foundation Making | Saville, N. |
World honey market - Argentina | Graham, J.M. |
You say apiotherapy, I say apitherapy | Harman, A. |