Publications

Beekeeping Training Modules

These Beekeeping Training Modules contain text and guidance for beekeeper trainers to deliver courses.

One Module comprises a  topic that can be delivered in one day of training.

Available from Store or request a Resource Box

 Training Cards in Full Colour

These cards belong to a full set of nine cards

1. Pests and predators

2. Biology of the honey bee

3. Choosing a beehive

4. Beekeeping diary

5. Comb

6. Separating honey

7. Rendering beeswax

8. Hives in Africa

9. Top-bar hive dimensions

Available from Store or request a Resource Box

Beekeeping Enterprise Development Guides

Guide 1

Explains how beekeepers can earn more by accessing new markets for their honey

Available from store

Guide 2

Provides information for any business wishing to pack honey and maintain quality for high-value markets

Available from store

Posters

Published with sponsorship from Anglo American plc.
Contact us to request your free copy (beekeepers and projects in developing countries only).

In English, Mandarin, Portuguese or Spanish language editions.

Information Poster No 1. A2 size. Bees for Development's philosophy on one page.

Text and full colour pictures depicting excellent reasons for beekeeping.

Also available from our Store.

Also available in French.

Information Poster No 2. A2 size.

The importance of pollination is often overlooked or understated.

This Poster aims to put the record straight.

Also available from our Store.

Books

Strengthening livelihoods: exploring the role of beekeeping in development

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First West African Bee Research Seminar

The written texts of the papers presented at the First Seminar held in The Gambia in 1991.

The papers reveal the difficulties in handling Apis mellifera adansonii

(the honey bee indigenous to West Africa). Available from Store.