“We are happy because we can now make more money. We are using cheap means to take care of our children, especially their education”. Participants at our beekeeping training course, near Digya National Park, Ghana, 2019. The Kwahu Afram Plains North District in north-east Ghana is a remote area, accessible by ferry

Honey has anti-microbial properties make it a most effective option for treating wounds and preventing infection. Masanga hospital in Sierra Leone has a long history in treating wounds and ulcers with honey and is known across West Africa as a centre of excellence for skin grafting. The Wound Clinic was having problems sourcing clean honey, so we trained hospital staff members and farmers from 5 nearby villages to set up apiaries and processing facilities to ensure an adequate supply.

Welcoming bees to farms and orchards boosts harvests through pollination. Honey, beeswax and propolis store and sell well. Beekeeping makes the difference that sustains farmers and their families. Farming for export brings in cash. But all too often it uproots local farming, threatening food security and biodiversity. Growing nuts or fruit for distant markets

Natural beekeeping encompasses approaches to keeping bees which – as far as possible – allow bees to live as they do in nature. This includes environmental, genetic and management dimensions. Why is natural beekeeping important? Natural beekeeping achieves a healthy and resilient honey bee population, able to withstand – using

Introduction Intensive beekeeping is the widely-used, conventional method of managing European races of Apis mellifera honey bees in frame hives. This system is now approaching a globalised method, utilising the same types of bees, containing the same range of pathogens, and being fed with refined sugar to replace the harvested honey. This

“To get started with beekeeping you need to have to want to do it, you need to love bees and then get the skill you need. Your first teachers will be your friends and neighbours”, In Amhara, Ethiopia, rural families rely on farming and livestock keeping for food and for income – and

When it comes to selling honey, most beekeepers are interested in the sale price per kilo. Yet price is by no means the only criteria of ‘good trade’. Beekeepers are also concerned about the accessibility of the market they sell into, the reliability of their buyer, the volume the customer is able to