To counteract youth unemployment and rural exodus, Biovision, together with our partner organization Icipe and committed young women, is setting up several companies in rural Ethiopia to produce high-quality honey and beeswax.
The project aims to get young women in particular interested in beekeeping. Through training in the production and processing of honey, they increase their income and are thus better able to provide for their families. The aim is to make the traditional method of honey extraction more efficient. In this way, Biovision also wants to diversify the young women's income.
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International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Ethiopia
This project is supported by SDC
In the first phases of the project, we were able to make honey production not only more efficient, but also more sustainable. Beehives are now in use that do not harm the bee colony when the valuable honey is extracted.
At the same time, bees and their sustainable breeding have become important ambassadors for healthy and functioning ecosystems. The bee colonies cannot survive without them and therefore do not produce honey for the young beekeepers and their families. Honey production sustainably boosts the reforestation measures in the region and ensures more stable plant diversity.
In future, even more families and even more women should benefit from successful honey production. Now it is also important to strengthen the entire value chain. The beekeepers need a connection to the market, processing centers and end customers for their product. The more sustainable beekeeping gains a foothold, the more targeted we can be in our renaturation measures. Ultimately, the aim is to create true agroforestry systems that provide space for different types of trees and, in the best-case scenario, open up another source of income for families.
