Our Work
Sustainable Beekeeping
Beekeeping gives forest-dependent families an income that depends on a healthy forest. It also reduces the bush fires caused by wild honey collection.
Activities
What this programme involves
- Sustainable beekeeping that reduces forest degradation from bush fire by wild honey collectors
- Encouraging women and youths into modern beekeeping
- Low-cost hive technology development
- Research on bees, pollination and melliferous plants
- Honey production, extraction and processing
- Packaging, transformation and marketing
- Other bee products: beeswax, pollen and propolis
Our Approach
How FAAFNET works with communities
- Practical training with protective equipment and locally built hives
- Group organisation so beekeepers can market together
- Long-standing collaboration with beekeeping development partners
Who Benefits
People and groups we work with
- Local Women Groups
- Youth Groups
- Community-Based Organizations
- Educational Institutions
- Common Initiative Groups / Cooperative Societies
- Community Forests
- Farmers
- Community Leaders
From the Field
Photographs from this area of work
