Asali Society: A Sweet Spot for Violence Prevention: Following the data

Bees provide valued services by processing natural resources into products use-able by human beings. Yet, often the welfare of the bees themselves is given little consideration or ignored.     Apis mellifera scutellata  Evidence of VAB In the United States it is common to lose a large number of colonies every year. For example, in northeastern USA, where only 18.9% of beekeepers collect swarms to start new hives, it is not atypical for beekeepers to lose a third of their hi ves ( Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry, 2020). In the European Union, based on more than 8,500 visits to apiaries, a survey reported wide variation in annual mortality, ranging from 3.5% in Lithuania to 33.6% in Belgium (Cressey, 2014). Likewise, in China considerable variations in annual total colony losses are found among provinces (ranging from 0.9% to 22.0%) (Tang et al, 2020).   There are large variations even within geographical regions. Traditional beekeepers...

Entrepreneurship and Beekeeping Training We sent beekeepers from 2 villages in southern Tanzania (Lulindi in Masasi region and Ndechela in Lindi region), for beekeeping and entrepreneurship training. In Dar es Salaam, they had 5 day-long sessions about entrepreneurship with an NGO called Restless Development. https://restlessdevelopment.org/country/tanzania/ In class. The trainers, at either end, had been trained by Internatio nal Labor Organization and tailored the course to beekeeping, and to the beekeepers education level. After the entrepreneurship training was completed, they rode a bus across the country to Sumbawanga for an intensive training at www.africanbeekeeping.com/ Africanbeekeeping.com focus their training upon helping local small-scale and subsistence farmers utilize materials common in their homes for beekeeping and honey processing.   Here the students are showing the wax starter strips they have made.        ...