This review aims to share the history of bees and the use of honey as the only natural
sweetener available to mankind for more than 40,000 years. At the same time, the …

Romanian beekeeping faces a lot of challenges nowadays due to the problems related to
climate change, the use of pesticides in agriculture, but also to the pandemic crisis. In this …

The symbiotic relationship between bees and the environment underscores the potential of
apiculture as a sustainable practice. Bees, as pollinators, play a crucial role in ecosystem …

Context To date, managing honey bees and wild bees within crop fields remains
challenging. Landscape structure is often overlooked when studying the pollination …

Oilseed rape is one of the world's most cultivated oil crops, and pollinators provide important
pollination services for oilseed rape production. Yet managed pollinators have been used to …

Apiculture plays a vital role in maintaining a genetically diverse ecosystem and is an
economic activity that contributes to the development of rural communities, thereby …

The EU has long-recognised the functions and contributions of beekeeping in sustainable
rural area development. In 2018, the EU adopted the Pollinator Initiative to strengthen its …

This study analysed the main aspects of the communication of local beekeepers on their
websites, to identify the most popular elements and to check whether companies …

Bees and beekeeping are increasingly recognised as important contributors to sustainable
development. Beekeeping is a landscape-scale process that involves complex …

Honey bees are the most efficient pollinators of several important fruits, nuts and vegetables
and are indispensable for the profitable production of these crops. Health and performance …