Beekeeping is an important source of income in the Northern province of Sierra Leone. However, smallholder farmers' beekeeping practices were heavily influenced by the traditional system, and they sold their honey to local vendors at the local market. According to the findings, beekeeping was a male-dominated …

Beekeeping and honey production are beneficial to rural and urban people, the economy, and the environment (bees help pollinate wildflower species). This study examines honey production and processing practices of beekeepers in Abia State, South-East Nigeria, and how these practices affect the quantity …

Although beekeeping is increasingly taking commercial orientation in Rwanda, it has been of subsistence nature. Beekeepers’ own forests are unsuitable for beekeeping as they are small over-harvested plantations with short rotations of 2 to 3 years. In addition, the use of pesticides in agricultural plantations …

Beekeeping is an important practice for income generation in the southwestern part of Ethiopia. However, the beekeeping practice of smallholder farmers were highly dominated by traditional system and they sell their honey for the local collectors at local market, where the honey quality is not the major …

Dit rapport is het eindproduct van de planfase van dit project en is een vervolg op het eerder verschenen inventarisatie en analyserapport ‘Versterking van de dracht en biodiversiteit ten behoeve van de (wilde) bij’ (11 november 2011). In het rapport wordt de vertaling van de visie naar het concept en …

Het doel van dit project is het verbeteren van de dracht en biodiversiteit van wilde bijen in de omgeving van St. Isidorushoeve. De resultaten van dit project kunnen in de toekomst als pilot dienen voor het verbeteren van de bijendracht in heel Nederland.

The study here is set out to explore the facilitating and restraining factors for knowledge circulation in the scaling up of local innovation taking beehive and queen replacement innovation as case of the study in Enebsie district, Amhara region, Ethiopia. Appreciating farmers’ innovations and participating …