Across Africa, Nature-based beekeeping is helping communities protect forests, adapt to climate change and build sustainable incomes. To explore how this approach can be shared more widely, we held a Africa-wide Nature-based Beekeeping Summit at the offices of The Uganda National Apiculture Development Association (TUNADO). We invited our partners from Ethiopia, Ghana and Zimbabwe
We are pleased to support Birhanu Fentahun, an MSc student at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, whose research focuses on insect ecology, pest management, and pollinator conservation. In 2025, with support from Bees for Development, Birhanu began his MSc research project in Fogera District, South Gondar Zone, investigating how different pest management practices
Over the past year, Bees for Development has seen meaningful impact across our work. We’ve chosen five highlights to share with you. Image above: Molla Adugna, a farmer who participated in the More Bees project using a botanical pesticide on his tomato crop 2025 saw the successful completion after three years
In November of 2023 we told you about an exciting new project we had started in the Ibnat district of South Gondar in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. This project uses Nature Based Beekeeping to address youth unemployment in the area. The watershed area showing the work that has been done
It may seem ambitious to expect small insects – honey bees – to create jobs for a million people, but that is exactly what the Mass Youth Employment in Apiculture (MaYEA) project aims to do. In partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, this Ethiopian nationwide project is being implemented by a consortium of local organisations, to
It is estimated that at the start of the twentieth century 40% of Ethiopia was covered by forests, today that has dropped to just 14% and continues to decline. One of the last remaining large, forested areas is the Sheka Biosphere Reserve, in the Southwest of the country. Home to much of Ethiopia’s biodiversity
Over the past few years Bees for Development has been refining a traceability system designed to work in remote areas with no internet connection but that can give near live traceability data to honey buyers looking to buy honey produced through our projects. Why is traceability important? Traceability is an important part of any food
It has been a busy and productive year at Bees for Development and we have selected five of our favourite highlights of the year to share with you. After spending the summer training teachers, we launched six new Buzz Clubs in schools around Donkorkrom, Ghana. Florence Sefakor of Bees for Development Ghana took
For more than 30 years Bees for Development has been helping people to improve their livelihoods through beekeeping. For many this starts with the basics, learning to make hives from the materials available, attracting a swarm, managing an apiary and finally harvesting honey. Once a harvest is completed and there is a bucket of
Molla Adugna has five children and lives in Fogera, Ethiopia. To make ends meet he works hard cultivating crops including produces teff, rice, maize, onion, tomato, grass pea, chick pea. He also rears livestock and has 15 beehives. Molla noticed that as he used more pesticides, his honey bees were dying. “I was causing
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