Honey is a natural substance produced by honeybees, Apis mellifera, from the nectar of
blossomed flowers or exudates of trees and plants producing nectar honeys or honeydews …

This paper presents and analyzes the key findings from a comprehensive review of value
chain-related studies on the commodities and horticulture sectors, focusing on what this …

Chiuri trees and beekeeping are the major sources of livelihood among the Chepang
community. The study was performed to assess the role of Chiuri on livelihood improvement …

Beekeeping has been used with success in several parts of the world to address pervasive
poverty. In the last 15 years, the initiative had been used in South Africa; although no …

The beekeeping sector plays an important role in maintaining biodiversity and the
ecosystem, in addition to its production function. The European beekeeping sector is facing …

An overwhelming majority of poor people in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) live in rural
areas and depend heavily on agriculture and nature-based goods and services, including …

Mountain value chains are influenced by the mountain specificities including inaccessibility,
diversity, marginality and fragility, and therefore need to be looked at in the light of these pre …

Beekeeping is a low investment and low input business enterprise with immediate return. It
not only has the potential to transform thousands of lives of Nepalese people but also makes …

Most value chain development programmes (or “chain upgrading” programmes) supported
by development organizations include poverty reduction as one of their key aims. Yet the …

Economically five important honeybees' species namely Apis cerana F., A. mellifera L., A.
laboriosa S., A. dorsata F., and A. florae F. are recorded in Nepal. To understand the farmers' …