Download or read book Beekeeping and Sustainable Livelihoods written by Martin Hilmi and published by Fao Inter-Departmental Working Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The booklet's aim is to create awareness and promote beekeeping as a viable diversification enterprise for small-scale farmers. Its main objective is to demonstrate how beekeeping can become an important business for small-scale farmers in their agricultural endeavours and how this can support their livelihoods in rural and remote areas. The booklet is intended for all those working in rural development projects in public, private and donor organizations."--P. 7.
Download or read book Strengthening Livelihoods written by Nicola Bradbear and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bees and Their Role in Forest Livelihoods written by Nicola Bradbear and published by Non-Wood Forest Products. This book was released on 2009 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides basic information about managing wild bees and on the use of their products. It identifies and describes major bee species and their importance for nature conservation and for sustaining livelihoods of rural people. Bee products are considered at both subsistence and commercial level, and particular attention is given to the potential for further development of managing wild been species in developing countries. The role of bees for pollination of crops and the impact of managing bees on forestry and farming are presented. Wild-bee keeping techniques, honey production and marketing, and the international trade in been products are described with further references and sources of additional information given. Using this publication, readers will better understand the complexities and opportunities for developing apiculture by rural livelihoods. Also published in French.
Download or read book Beekeeping written by Kedar Devkota and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nepal has tremendous opportunities on the beekeeping due to the richness in the honeybee,Äôs species and the availability of plenty pasture diversity. There exist four native honeybee,Äôs species Apis florea, Apis dorsata, and Apis laboriosa are open nesting and Apis cerena halfway domesticated types. The beekeeping practices and production of the honey have been increased during the 10 years. Along with this, the natural honey export was also increased in recent years. The beekeeping in Nepal contributes to the economics boost up of the rural and marginalized landless farmers. Besides the economic contribution from the bees,Äô products, beekeeping enhances the pollination services assuring the crop yields and helping to maintain the natural biodiversity from the Terai to the high Himalayans. Beekeeping gives the mutual benefits to both beekeeper and the crop farmers on the economic returns from the selling of the bee products and beehives and also increases the yields of the pollination-dependent crops by ensuring the efficient pollination services. These perspectives of beekeeping enhance the livelihoods of the farmers through the sustainable practices of beekeeping.
Download or read book Bees and Their Role in Forest Livelihoods written by Nicola Bradbear and published by Non-Wood Forest Products. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides basic information about managing wild bees and on the use of their products. It identifies and describes major bee species and their importance for nature conservation and for sustaining livelihoods of rural people. Bee products are considered at both subsistence and commercial level, and particular attention is given to the potential for further development of managing wild been species in developing countries. The role of bees for pollination of crops and the impact of managing bees on forestry and farming are presented. Wild-bee keeping techniques, honey production and marketing, and the international trade in been products are described with further references and sources of additional information given. Using this publication, readers will better understand the complexities and opportunities for developing apiculture by rural livelihoods. Also published in French.
Download or read book Beekeeping for Poverty Alleviation and Livelihood Security written by Rakesh Kumar Gupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book intends to address all aspects needed to develop beekeeping into a powerful instrument of rural development and will focus on beekeeping as a tool for Poverty Alleviation and Livelihood security. In the backdrop of the social and economic issues of the people living in poverty region, the book aims to delineate specific motivation approaches to engage them in beekeeping and will serve as a guide for effective marketing through diversification and value addition of bee products. Nevertheless, marketing and environmental issues will remain an important component of this book. The aim is also to focus on indirect benefit of beekeeping so that it is integrated with farming and nature conservation. Other topics include ensuring the provision of practical techniques in handling and management of bees. It will provide detailed information on good contacts with policymakers and authorities; and channels for attracting finance especially in the third world countries. An interdisciplinary approach is the key feature of the book and it will also focus on few case histories and success stories to encourage the reader to take up beekeeping as a new venture gradually in a phased manner like traditional-transitional and modernised beekeeping. With the publication of this book, we hope to hand out a practical guide that will assist all those who are involved in beekeeping for development. We hope it will stimulate beekeeping as an integrated activity with farming and nature conservation and will serve in many households for poverty alleviation and livelihood security.
Download or read book Modern Beekeeping written by Ramón Eduardo Rebolledo Ranz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beekeeping worldwide has seen remarkable development in the face of the growing demand for products from bees by consumers who demand increasingly innocuous products that do not harm the environment. However, it should be noted that, recently, problems have arisen in beekeeping production that could become restrictive factors for the worldwide development of beekeeping. This book includes, in simple and accessible terms, very relevant topics such as the effect of pesticides, the impact of diseases and their management, production and analysis of pollen present in honey, DNA analysis, and sustainable management, among others. This book is answering an expected need for accurate and international information for the productive sector.
Download or read book Beekeeping for sustainable livelihoods and rural develpoment written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good beekeeping practices for sustainable apiculture written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bees provide a critical link in the maintenance of ecosystems, pollination. They play a major role in maintaining biodiversity, ensuring the survival of many plants, enhancing forest regeneration, providing sustainability and adaptation to climate change and improving the quality and quantity of agricultural production systems. In fact, close to 75 percent of the world’s crops that produce fruits and seeds for human consumption depend, at least in part, on pollinators for sustained production, yield and quality. Beekeeping, also called apiculture, refers to all activities concerned with the practical management of social bee species. These guidelines aim to provide useful information and suggestions for a sustainable management of bees around the world, which can then be applied to project development and implementation.
Download or read book Bees and Their Role in Forest Livelihoods written by Nicola Bradbear and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Business Responsibility in a Global Context written by Bodo B. Schlegelmilch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines topical issues in global corporate social responsibility (CSR) from both scholarly and practical perspectives. It offers a variety of viewpoints and cases from countries around the globe and combines them with current academic knowledge. Intended for students, academics, and managers wishing to keep abreast of the challenges and opportunities for corporations operating in our ever-more-complex globalized world, this book provides fresh insights into responsible business conduct.
Download or read book Beekeeping for Poverty Alleviation and Livelihood Security written by Rakesh Kumar Gupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book intends to address all aspects needed to develop beekeeping into a powerful instrument of rural development and will focus on beekeeping as a tool for Poverty Alleviation and Livelihood security. In the backdrop of the social and economic issues of the people living in poverty region, the book aims to delineate specific motivation approaches to engage them in beekeeping and will serve as a guide for effective marketing through diversification and value addition of bee products. Nevertheless, marketing and environmental issues will remain an important component of this book. The aim is also to focus on indirect benefit of beekeeping so that it is integrated with farming and nature conservation. Other topics include ensuring the provision of practical techniques in handling and management of bees. It will provide detailed information on good contacts with policymakers and authorities; and channels for attracting finance especially in the third world countries. An interdisciplinary approach is the key feature of the book and it will also focus on few case histories and success stories to encourage the reader to take up beekeeping as a new venture gradually in a phased manner like traditional-transitional and modernised beekeeping. With the publication of this book, we hope to hand out a practical guide that will assist all those who are involved in beekeeping for development. We hope it will stimulate beekeeping as an integrated activity with farming and nature conservation and will serve in many households for poverty alleviation and livelihood security.
Download or read book Towards Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mountain Regions written by Vishwambhar Prasad Sati and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems are far-reaching and burning issues in the wake of high growth of population, low production and per ha yield of crops and depletion of biodiversity resources. Mountainous regions of the world are facing the menace of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition. Further, tremendous growth in population and slow pace of development have together forced most of the population to live below poverty line. Traditionally depending upon cultivating subsistence crops for food requirement, the people living in mountainous region are unable to produce sufficient food grains to run their livelihood smoothly. The Himalayas is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and has an abundance of natural resources: land, water and forest – life sustaining factors. The geo-environmental conditions – climate and landscape further enhance the possibility of sustainable livelihoods through eco-tourism, harnessing water resources and utilizing forests and their products sustainably. Diversifying agricultural practices through cultivating cash and cereal crops and enhancing livelihood options through extensive use of timber and non-timber based forestry products can help to eradicate poverty and provide food security. This book consists of an introduction and nine chapters, covering geo-environmental setting, socio-economy and population profile, sustainable livelihoods: diversification and enhancement, livelihood analysis, development of tourism and hydroelectricity, case studies, mountain ecosystems, sustainable mountain development and also presents a conclusion.
Download or read book Buzz written by Lisa Jean Moore and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2014 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Animals & Society section of the American Sociological Association Bees are essential for human survival—one-third of all food on American dining tables depends on the labor of bees. Beyond pollination, the very idea of the bee is ubiquitous in our culture: we can feel buzzed; we can create buzz; we have worker bees, drones, and Queen bees; we establish collectives and even have communities that share a hive-mind. In Buzz, authors Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut convincingly argue that the power of bees goes beyond the food cycle, bees are our mascots, our models, and, unlike any other insect, are both feared and revered. In this fascinating account, Moore and Kosut travel into the land of urban beekeeping in New York City, where raising bees has become all the rage. We follow them as they climb up on rooftops, attend beekeeping workshops and honey festivals, and even put on full-body beekeeping suits and open up the hives. In the process, we meet a passionate, dedicated, and eclectic group of urban beekeepers who tend to their brood with an emotional and ecological connection that many find restorative and empowering. Kosut and Moore also interview professional beekeepers and many others who tend to their bees for their all-important production of a food staple: honey. The artisanal food shops that are so popular in Brooklyn are a perfect place to sell not just honey, but all manner of goods: soaps, candles, beeswax, beauty products, and even bee pollen. Buzz also examines media representations of bees, such as children’s books, films, and consumer culture, bringing to light the reciprocal way in which the bee and our idea of the bee inform one another. Partly an ethnographic investigation and partly a meditation on the very nature of human/insect relations, Moore and Kosut argue that how we define, visualize, and interact with bees clearly reflects our changing social and ecological landscape, pointing to how we conceive of and create culture, and how, in essence, we create ourselves.
Download or read book Good beekeeping practices Practical manual on how to identify and control the main diseases of the honeybee Apis mellifera written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical tool to help beekeepers, veterinarians and beekeeping advisory services to properly identify main honeybee diseases and to take the most appropriate actions in the apiary to control and/or prevent disease outbreaks. This publication follows the TECA publication Main bee diseases: good beekeeping practices (2018) which provided a more general overview of good beekeeping practices for bee diseases. This manual is a unique publication because, through its presentation of practical information, simple visuals, and understandable content, it helps beekeepers to correctly identify main honeybee diseases in a timely manner. More specifically, the manual creatively illustrates actions which facilitate the identification of disease symptoms. It also presents a comprehensive list of good beekeeping practices to adopt in the apiary as well as biosafety measures to reduce the risk of the introduction and the spread of main honeybee diseases. The manual’s overall objective is ultimately to support a more sustainable beekeeping sector.
Download or read book Sustainable Beekeeping written by Grant F. C. Gillard and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-24 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is more to beekeeping than simply keeping bees. Honey bees face threats from Colony Collapse Disorder, systemic pesticides and GMO crops. It's becoming more difficult to keep honey bees, and next to impossible to keep those bees alive! How do we survive in this challenging age? Grant F. C. Gillard, a small-scale commercial beekeeper since 1981, shares his insights and philosophies, his field-tested ideas and sustainable methods on how to hang tough, to persevere in the face of adversity, to run and not grow weary, to walk and not faint. It's tough out there; tougher than you may think; tougher than we want to admit. The present response brings us the ideals of treatment-free beekeeping, natural and organic beekeeping, ecological beekeeping, even biodynamic beekeeping. We're giving Warre Hives and Top Bar Hives serious consideration. But sadly, even these less intensive methods of keeping bees face the same challenges as the commercial, conventional and traditional methods of keeping bees in Langstroth hives. Suburban homeowners chemically sanitize meticulously manicured lawns. Burgeoning expanses of asphalt and concrete gobble up formerly lush meadows of forage, clover and wildflowers. Systemic pesticides abound, poisoning our air, water and soil. Monocultured GMO crops proliferate from horizon to horizon in weed-free sterility, creating green deserts nutritionally devoid of floral diversity. We're plowing up fence rows, destroying vital habitat and endangering a fragile ecosystem already stressed by our incessant hunger to feed a starving planet. Ironically, such progress imperils our honey bees, these persistent pollinators that make as much as one-third of our food possible. A honey bee's daily existence perilously balances above an abyss, her simple tasks becoming a precarious ordeal simply to survive. Even seasoned beekeepers, caught by the shrapnel of this ecological assault, stagger and stumble amid paths strewn with unaccounted collateral damage. No one is immune and an uncertain future holds our food supply hostage. We need the bees, and we need the beekeepers. In the struggle to keep our hives alive, what are the workable solutions we can put into action to help us keep on keeping bees? What are the sustainable management practices that transcend our choice of how we keep our bees? How do I, as an individual beekeeper, become more self-reliant, resistant and resilient with respect to raising my own queens, replacement nucs...and how do I personally sustain myself amid all the disappointments, frustrations and dying hives every beekeeper faces in these difficult times? How do I have hope and not lose heart? We approach natural beekeeping and treatment-free methods, top bar hives and Warre hives as exemplars and prototypes to preserve for future generations the sacred practice of keeping honey bees. We search for that mythically elusive "silver bullet," the Holy Grail against our old nemesis, the varroa mite. For all our efforts, solutions evade us. We need a little hope, and a lot more optimism, but those alone won't keep our bees from dying. Inarguably, we need the honey bee, not just for honey but for the miraculous act of pollination that contributes to 1/3 of our food supply. We need more beekeepers willing to step up to the front lines in this battle, but we need to empower and enable them to continue. We need to give them the weaponry to succeed. We need fewer former beekeepers with vacant, used equipment hoping for "some day when..." In this day and age of CCD and our struggles to keep hives alive, what are the practical steps to keep us keeping honey bees? What can we do to minimize the variables which befuddle and scatter? How do we weather the factors beyond our control, the outside influences of weather and availability of resources?
Download or read book Reconciling Development and Conservation Through Livelihoods written by Wan Yeer Lee and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation and development goals are often in conflict. Traditionally, conservation emphasises protecting natural resources with minimal human interference, while development focuses on economic development or modernisation, putting natural resources at risk. However, conservation and development cannot be mutually exclusive and academics recognise their interdependence. Yet, most attempts to reconcile the two concepts have had limited success. Conservation and development integration needs to include a postdevelopment examination of local and global development dynamics and the factors that encourage communities to act towards conservation objectives. I use my case study, beekeeping in Kasese, Uganda, as an example of a livelihood that can compel individuals towards conservation. Beekeeping might potentially support local development as it can encourage endogenous growth and a sense of environmentality. In the Kasese District, beekeeping has been practiced traditionally, and non-governmental organisations have recently endorsed beekeeping as a livelihood that provides adequate financial income and strengthens social connections. In terms of conservation, beekeeping is a sustainable livelihood because it requires certain environmental elements, such as trees and plants, for bee forage. This thesis suggests that a livelihood, such as beekeeping, can link conservation and development objectives, thus promoting sustainable development. I also argue that sustainable development can be improved through a more thorough examination of local perceptions and aspirations. To do so, I employ post-development as a theoretical background as it provides a hybridised framework that emphasises local perspectives, while also considering global influences.
