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Bees for Development is an international charity  specialising in work to alleviate poverty through beekeeping. Beekeeping contributes to supporting sustainable livelihoods in poor and remote communities and honey bees provide an essential ecosystem service. Offices are based in Monmouth, South Wales. BfD runs projects in Uganda, Zanzibar, Ethiopia and Kyrgyzstan.

History and Philosophy
Founded in 1993, Bees for Development works in partnership with beekeepers and international organisations, such as Apimondia, Keystone Foundation and FAO. The organisation aims to support beekeeping in order to help poor and remote communities and to protect biodiversity. The organisation focuses on the use of appropriate technology, values and respects local skills, and believes self-reliance and empowerment of the poor can be enhanced through access to knowledge and information and through trade in bee products. The Charity Bees for Development Trust was set up in 1999 and is governed by a Board of Trustees and supported by Patrons, Monty Don, Martha Kearney, Tom Seeley, Bill Turnbull and Sting.

Objectives
Bees for Development states its aims to be:

Activities
The Bees for Development Journal is produced quarterly and focuses on appropriate beekeeping technologies, sharing lessons learnt in different countries and includes up to date information about beekeeping worldwide. The Uganda Honey Trade Project works with local beekeepers associations, including ApiTrade Africa, helping raise incomes through strengthening honey trade. In Zanzibar Bees for Development is implementing a partnership project with a Danish NGO, DANTAN, focussing on boosting the honey industry on Unguja and Pemba. In Kyrgyzstan, funding from the Darwin Initiative has been secured and Bees for Development is working with the Rural Development Foundation to assist beekeepers achieve rights of access to pasture lands for beekeeping. Bees for Development also disseminates training resources worldwide, manages an on-line library of beekeeping information and organises beekeeping safaris to Trinidad and Tobago and Turkey.