News Archives - Bees for Development

More Bees: Supporting Agrobiodiveristy and Livelihoods in Amhara

Bees for Development Ethiopia is organising a series of training sessions for project staff, fieldworkers and government extension workers on Recognising groups of insects and understanding their benefits for plants. This forms part of our new Darwin Initiative-funded Project in the Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve in Ethiopia, being delivered in partnership with Pesticide

Keystone Foundation Partnership

Partnership with Keystone Foundation, training beekeepers in Nilgiris, India. . As part of our partnership with the Keystone Foundation, we are delighted to announce the launch of a new beekeeper training project in Nilgiris, India. Beekeeping is a

Harvesting with Hawa

On Friday evening we visited Hawa and Issaka Ibrahim who live with one of their six children in Kojobator. We brought you news from Hawa not long ago, when she was awarded a prize as ‘Best beekeeper’ in the district at the National Farmer’s Day ceremony. Click here to read the story of how

Ysala Update February 2022

Now the rains have ended, community members in Ysala have resumed their work to restore degraded land. This is enormously strenuous toil, but it has its rewards; with support from Rowse, this land is showing signs of recovery, to support bees and beekeepers in the future. Photos posted: 1st February 2022

News from the Caribbean – ACBO Newsletter January 2022

Our friends at the Association of Caribbean Beekeepers Organisation still have their Christmas decorations up because they've been too busy collecting honey from their hives! It has been a busy year and season, with lots of good news to report - which you can read below. Download PDF

Celebrating Master Beekeepers’ Achievements in Ghana

Bees for Development Ghana works with many cashew growers, who have found that keeping bees in or near their orchards improves yields greatly. With income from honey, growers and beekeepers can afford to feed their families. Training is given by a group of master beekeepers, whose expert support has been rewarded recently at an

Savings to grow with bees for women in Manicaland, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has been severely affected by Covid-19. The pandemic and measures to contain it have led to increases in the price of fuel and food, job losses and wage drops. These conditions have pushed a further 1.3 million people into extreme poverty. In 2021, 7.9 million people in Zimbabwe are living on less than

Bee garden at Chelsea highlights global solutions to climate and development

Bee Hive Garden of Arabia wins Bronze at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021. Our award winning garden was a two-metre high wall of clay bee hives, set in a planting theme designed especially for pollinators. The hives were representative of a style used since ancient times in parts of the Middle East, and are

Beekeeping with Batwa

We are promoting beekeeping among Batwa and other marginalized and vulnerable groups of people around Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Area in southwestern Uganda. Batwa are a minority group in Uganda, and have been almost entirely dispossessed of land. Much of the forest here has been closed to people who previously lived or made a living

Restoring land at Alehuay

For the community living in and around the village of Alehuay, near Lake Tana, Ethiopia the degraded condition of the land within the Debati watershed has become a painful and daily reality. Whereas in the past the land was covered in vegetation, by 2020 the status of the land appeared so poor as