Have you ever wondered how wild honey is made? This is a story of how wild bees work hand in hand with communities to produce high quality forest honey. Theinformational 2014 calendar tells us the interesting process: from the nectars of forest flowers, to the nicely packed honey bottle that you can buy from any of our green intermediaries.
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Madhu Duniya, the largest gathering of Asian Forest Honey producers, scientists, supporters, and private sector players in the world, is held every four years. It aims to gether various stakeholders to discuss growing trends, challenges, and opportunities and sharre technical and practical knowledge and expertise on forest honey. it seeks to be the platform to promote forest honey as crucial for rural incomes, key for forest conservation, and as important for human health around the world and in Asia.
Madhu Duniya was held in India (2007) and in Indonesia (2011) and has resulted to the formation of forest honey networks in at least 5 Asian coutnries, forging of government permits for forest honey gatherers, inspiring ongoing researcj on honey for health and medical benefits, and successfully linking private sector partners and producers.
The training Community Livelihood Assessment and Product Scanning: First Steps to Community Enterprise Development aims to provide communities and organizations with an approach and tools in identifying and selecting products and services with high enterprise development potential as well as in assessing the readiness of the community in setting up a viable community forest enterprise. The training will show how to accomplish this in a step-by-step manner, starting from assessing the livelihood situation, scanning potential products, evaluation of the sustainability of resources, assessing community readiness, and prioritizing and mapping key NTFPs.
REDD-PLUS GOVERNANCE AND SAFEGUARDS” is organized by CoDe REDD-PHILIPPINES in collaboration with the CLIMATE CHANGE COMMISSION (CCC), THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES- FOREST MANAGEMENT BUREAU (DENR-FMB) and the DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT (GIZ) GMBH. This partner event will highlight platforms and commitment of the Philippine government in terms of opportunities of multi-stakeholder REDD-Plus development