The purpose of the FAO Diversification booklets is to raise awareness and
provide decision support information about opportunities at farm and local
community level to increase the incomes of small-scale farmers.

In former times, beekeeping was a more important branch of agriculture than at present, but the development of trade with the tropics made possible the bringing in of cane sugar and honey production decreased in relative importance.

Apimondia decided to produce a concise reference publication to highlight and contextualise how beekeeping and its many declinations can contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Beekeeping Symposium on Cyclades by eight Cycladic islands the excellent presentations by 30 renowned experts from Greece and abroad.

Wild and domesticated bees are an integral part of countless ecosystems around the world. But high-input farming systems (based on intensive agriculture) have hugely changed the dynamics of ecosystems.

The role of bees in sustaining forests and forest dependent livelihoods remains poorly known and appreciated. Bees are a fantastic world resource: they are essential for sustaining our environment because they pollinate flowering plants.

Bees as Biosensors: Chemosensory Ability, Honey Bee Monitoring Systems, and Emergent Sensor Technologies Derived from the Pollinator Syndrome.

The next time you see a bee buzzing around, remember that much of the food we eat depends significantly on natural insect mediated pollination – the key ecosystem service that bees and other pollinators provide

Wild pollinators are declining and the number of managed honey bee colonies is growing slower than agricultural demands for pollination.