A new web site — beesfordevelopment.org — is your one-stop-shop for information about beekeeping anywhere in the world. The site recently announced new funding from the Wales for Africa Fund of the Welsh Assembly Government and the Rowse Family Trust that is allowing it to offer a specific African Beekeeping Information Portal. You need to register, which is a minor inconvenience, but I’ll bet there are lots of goodies once you are in.
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Fresh Nibbles: February 13, 2012
: <- click to comment- GardenSearch just got way more complicated.
- Today’s silver bullet is an Australian grasspea variety. Actually the first Australian grasspea variety.
- Our friend Nik goes to town on IRRI’s wild relatives.
- How to breed sweet potatoes. The saga continues.
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
- ILRI uses the particular to make points about the general. Clever.
- Californian fine-foraging. I wonder if any of the diners will also read the following piece and be inspired to do their foraging further afield.
- Angelenos learn about Vavilov’s Principle.
- A forester argues for forests in the Rio+20 process. Mandy Rice-Davies applies.
- Tanzanian Regional Commissioner urges farmers to sow sorghum and millet. If necessary, they can learn from …
- Farmers in Tamil Nadu, who helped scientists learn lots more about local millets, and got a publication into the bargain.
- Who’s doing what in Kenya in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Genebank scrapes in, though not by name, under KARI.
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
And easy access to the Brainfood Archive.
Featured Comment: February 11, 2012
SLNRao regrets the mistakes of the past, but sees a bright future ahead for grasspea, and its relatives:
Looking at the likely benefits of Homoarginine on the cardiovasculature and emerging concepts on ODAP itself I am of the firm belief that grass pea in coming years will turn into a rich man’s pulse.
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I plan for beekeeping. It will be useful for me to visit this website as and when required. I expect the website manager will inform me any information if it is related with apiculture.
BULEMU SOLOMON
P.O. BOX,24744
KAMPALA
E:mail; sbulemu@yahoo.com
Dear sir/madam
RE:APPLICATION FOR POST OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER.
Am a 29 year old Ugandan citizen, born in the western part of the country where bee keeping has taken a tremendous form. Am fully humbled by this website. The information given is outstanding in relation to bee keeping.
Its on this background that i seek the opportunity to part of the bees for development colleagues to drive the organization to higher level.
I have been working as a research assistant with a local consultancy firm called Uganda Project Implementation and Management Center [UPIMAC] from 2007 to date. I have participated in a number of project like Value for money audit with ministry of finance. capacity building and quality assurance with ministry of local government. Assessment of the performance of local government of the Peoples Republic of Tanzania ie 2007\2008 and 2008\2009.
I will be very grateful if my request is put under your consideration
I’m a graduate of economics from makerere university with a number of short courses in monitoring and evaluation, financial management and accounting from African Population Institute.
I will be very grateful if my request is put under your consideration
yours faithfully
Bulemu Solomon.
We like Beekeeping as an activity to earns as money as a youth group, its why i always vist this site thank you.
I am from Ethiopia working in extention department partcularly with beekeeping improvement. Therefore I am interested in visting this website to have more information about beekeeping
Thank you for your interesting service.
I am very happy about this website because we have started a young Organisation called Humanist Action for Grassroot Development Initiative, Sierra Leone (HAGDI – SL) and our main intervention is beekeeping and forest conservation which is a new innovation in the country. We are sure that this will serve as a source of given and supporting us with the recent innovation in this area.