6th Mediterranean Beekeeping Forum
The Mediterranean Beekeeping Forum represents a precious space for sharing ideas and experiences between Mediterranean beekeepers and, at the same time, a place for political dialogue between beekeepers and local, national and international organizations, in order to build an alliance for bees defence and beekeeping promotion. This sixth edition of the Forum aims for making an important step forward, proposing a new idea of bees and beekeeping as a Common Good, an indispensable and inalienable patrimony of us all. It is not a further theoretical formulation, but a concrete path which will have to be supported and realised through focused policies, legal orientations, incentives and practical initiatives.
Introduction of the President Vincenzo Panettieri:
The bee is the protagonist, on an international scale, of an economic fallout in agriculture of about 224 thousand millions euros, as it grants the reproduction of 71 vegetable species which supply 90% of the world population’s feeding. It is a kind of actual “multinational corporation” of agriculture which has got its directional centres in every single nation, every single territory, every single beekeeper; it brings a significant turnover and financial capital, shared out for the complete and free benefit of the whole humanity, without the payment of prebends or interests.
Essential for our feeding, bees are among the most important factors that contribute to the diversity of the ecosystems of the earth, and for this reason they have to be considered as a structural element which safeguards the biodiversity. In fact, thanks to pollination services, bees are one of the most important resources for the macrosystems which are at the base of our existence: natural, economic and social systems. Beekeeping, besides being a productive activity which generates income, protects our survival, varies our food and supports human development as a process of widening the knowledge of different values and traditions.
Beekeeping has indeed represented, in millennia, a source of products for use and sustenance (wax and honey), but it is true as well that the owning and caretaking of beehives granted the preservation or the evolution of our macro and micro environments, through a precious path of transmission of traditional customs and knowledge.
The main issue is if it can still be considered proper to apply to the beekeeping methods and systems for an exclusively productive and income valuation. The requests presented by the beekeepers, the industry associations and the civil society, but also by economists, researchers and international organizations, point out another direction, underlining that this activity is always more necessary and unavoidable.
The sixth Mediterranean Beekeeping Forum aims for making another step forward, proposing a new idea of bees and Beekeeping as a Common Good, an indispensable and inalienable patrimony of us all. It is not a further theoretical formulation, but a concrete path which will have to be supported and realised through focused policies, legal orientations, incentives and practical initiatives.
This all will be discussed from 7th to 9th November 2014 in Foligno for the sixth edition of the Mediterranean Beekeeping Forum, entitled “Beekeeping Common Good: from food security to environmental protection”. The Forum wants to be, on the one hand, a space for sharing ideas and experiences between Mediterranean beekeepers, and on the other hand, a place for political dialogue between beekeepers and national and international organizations, in order to build an alliance for bees defence and beekeeping promotion.
The event is organised by FELCOS Umbria (Fund of local authorities for off-centre cooperation and sustainable human development) and APIMED (Mediterranean Beekeepers Association), in cooperation with the Municipality of Foligno, the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) ART initiative, and with the sponsorship of the region of Umbria. Furthermore, the event is realised in relation to the project “Mediterranean CooBEEration: a network for beekeeping, food security and biodiversity”, co-financed be the European Commission.
Vincenzo Panettieri
President of FEDAPIMED & Mediterranean Beekeeping Forum
h 02:00 PM | Registration of the guests. |
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h 03:00 PM | Inauguration of Mielinumbria. |
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h 03:30 PM | Welcome greetings and opening of the works. |
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• Vincenzo Panettieri | President of FEDAPIMED | |
• Massimo Porzi | Manager of FELCOS Umbria |
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• Silvia Stancati | Cooperation Councillor of the Municipality of Foligno | |
• Giovanni Patriarchi | Councillor in charge of Economic Development, Municipality of Foligno | |
h 04:00 PM | Beekeeping, sustainability and food security. |
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Moderator: Mario Ghirotti | DGCS (Directorate General for Development Cooperation) – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italia. | |
A greeting by: M'Hamed Aboulal | FIMAP – Moroccan interprofessional federation of beekeeping, Morocco. |
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Beekeeping between tradition and sustainability: |
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• Gaetana Mazzeo | University of Catania, Italy | |
• Saidi Abbes | Agriculture and Breeding Office – Ministry of Agriculture, Tunisia | |
The woman role in beekeeping and agriculture: a contribution to food security | ||
• Trabelsi Souad | Union of Women Farmers, Tunisia | |
Defence of productive traditions and respect of the principles of healthiness | ||
• Piero Macellari | ASL n.1 (Local Health Offices), Perugia | |
h 08:00 PM | Welcome dinner at Taverna la Mora |
h 09:00 AM | Opening of the Forum Greeting to the Organizations |
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• Vincenzo Panettieri | President of APIMED | |
• Joseph Flagiello | President of FELCOS Umbria | |
• Nando Mismetti | Mayor of the Municipality of Foligno | |
h 9:30 AM | Bees and environmental risks |
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Moderator: Roberto Barbero |
National Observatory on Honey, Italy | |
Greeting of: Enrico Lupi |
President of RE.CO.MED | |
The agrochemicals |
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• Teresa Renzi | Department of Agricultural Sciences - University of Bologna, Italy | |
Monocultures, OGM and territory management |
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• Giovanni Burgio | Department of Agricultural Sciences - University of Bologna, Italy | |
h 10:30 AM | Bees for biodiversity: the CooBEEration research |
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Moderator: Claudio Porrini |
Department of Agricultural Sciences - University of Bologna, Italy | |
Greeting of: Jouad Mentag | UAPIM – Beekeepers Union of Morocco | |
Italian contribution: | ||
• Paola Ferrazzi | Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences - University of Torino, Italy |
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• Monica Vercelli | Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences - University of Torino, Italy | |
Tunisian contribution: | ||
• Naima Barbouche | INAT – National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia | |
• Taoufik Ben Hamida | Veterinary Institute of Tunisia | |
h 11:15 AM | Policies and alliances to support beekeeping: | |
Moderator: Vincenzo Panettieri | President of APIMED | |
Greeting of: Raul Peralta Giron | Ministry of Agriculture, Dominican Republic |
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Who participates: |
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• Massimo Carpinteri | APIMED | |
• Ramzi Moughrabi | Ministry of Agriculture, Lebanon | |
• Matteo Bartolini | European Council of Young Farmers |
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• Giovanni Patriarchi | Councillor of Economic Development, Municipality of Foligno |
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• Fernanda Cecchini | Agriculture Councillor of the Region of Umbria |
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• Rosalud De La Rosa | Senor Adviser, Partnership with Producer Organizations and |
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• Giovanni Camilleri | Responsible of ART Initiative/UNDP |
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h 01:00 PM | Conclusions | |
•Andrea Olivero | Vice-Minister of Agricultural Policies |
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h 01:30 PM | Lunch |
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Afternoon session |
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h 03:30 PM | Round table |
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Planning and strategy for beekeeping, biodiversity and food security. |
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Moderator: Lucia Maddoli | FELCOS Umbria |
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Greeting of: Tahsein Owda | President of Ramallah Beekeepers Cooperative, Palestine |
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Who participates: |
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• Lucia Maddoli | Mediterranean CooBEEration Project |
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• Enrique Doblas | Menfri Project | |
• Francesco Panella | Beelife Project |
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• Sergio Campanella | Servagri Observatory |
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• Gabriele di Stefano | ILS Leda associations of beekeepers | |
• José Chumbinho | Beekeepers Association of Melgarbe, Portugal | |
• Dalila El Harras | Municipality of Chefchaouen | |
• Angel Diaz | National responsible of Beekeeping sector | |
• M. Hamzaoui | Blida Beekeepers Association, Algeria | |
• S. Kadamani | Rachaya Beekeepers Association, Lebanon |
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• Walid Nagara | UTAP, Tunisia |
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h 05:30 PM | Debate | |
h 06:00 PM | Conclusions | |
• Vincenzo Panettieri | President of APIMED |
h 09:30 AM | Biodiversity for bees: | |
Moderator: Francesco Ruini | APIMED | |
Greeting of: Emil Zaher | Vice President of Akkar Beekeepers Association, Lebanon |
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Bee on the Afro-asiatic side | ||
• Mohammed Hamzaoui | President of Blida Beekeepers Association, Algeria |
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• Moahmad Hassan | Vice President of South Lebanon Beekeepers Association |
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Bee on the European side | ||
• Massimo Carpinteri | APIMED | |
h 10:30 AM | Conclusions | |
• Nazih Muaddi | Secretary of Ramallah Beekeepers Cooperative, Palestine |
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• Mohamed Merzouq | President of Eastern Regional Association, Morocco |
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• M'Hamed Aboulal | President of Fimap – Moroccan interprofessional federation of beekeeping, Marocco |
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• Vedran Lesjak | Croatian Beekeepers Federation, Croatia | |
• Raul Peralta Giron | Ministry of Agriculture, Dominican Repubblic |
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h 12:00 AM | Greetings and conclusion |
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