National Beekeeping Forum of Palestine
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration of the participants |
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| 9.00 | Opening session |
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Moderator: Tahsein Odeh |
Ramallah Beekeepers Cooperative | |
| Mohammed Darwish | President of Ramallah Beekeepers Cooperative |
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| Vincenzo Panettieri | President of the Mediterranean Beekeepers Federation (APIMED) |
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| Lucia Maddoli | International Coordinator of Mediterranean CooBEEration project, FELCOS Umbria | |
| Representative of UNDP | ||
| Consul Federico Dimonopoli | Consulate General of Italy in Jerusalem | |
| Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture | ||
| Representative of the Ministry of Labour | ||
| 10:10 | Introduction | |
| A picture of Palestinian beekeeping: main constraints, challenges and opportunities | ||
| Nazih Muaddi | Ramallah Beekeepers Cooperative |
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| 10:30 | Coffee break |
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| 11:00 | Bee diseases & honey safety: fighting strategies, treatments and restraint techniques | |
| Moderator: Saleh Alazhari | ||
| Pr Mohammed Alrababah | Prime bees Division in the Department of Agriculture | |
| Integrated systems of fighting against bee's diseases Francesco Ruini, |
APIMED | |
| Onset of phenomena of resistance to the active principles Imadeddin Albaba |
Senior Environment and Agriculture Consultant and Researcher | |
| How to evaluate the level of infestation of varroa by counting the foretic varroa Paul Bonnaffé, UNAF |
Union Nationale de l'Apiculture Française | |
| Caging of the queen bee or removal of the brood for the fight against summer varroa Massimo Carpinteri, |
Vice-President ofd'APIMED | |
| 12:30 | Debate | |
| 13.30 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:30 | Qualité du miel et compétitivit | Institute de Recherche Vétérinaire de Tunisie |
| Moderator: Imadeddin Albaba | Senior Environment and Agriculture Consultant and Researcher |
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| PPresentation of "The Charter of Mediterranean Honeys" Vincenzo Panettieri |
President of APIMED | |
| Palestinian honey specifications: tests and researchers Ahed AbdulKhaliq |
Chairman Biology, Biochemistry and Animal Genetics at Birzeit University | |
| Honey quality in Morocco Embark Moghli, |
Moroccan Interprofessional Federation of Beekeeping | |
| 15.30 | Round table | |
| Beekeeping: an opportunity for local development, biodiversity protection and food security promotion | ||
| Moderator: Vincenzo Panettieri | President of APIMED | |
| With the participation of: | ||
| Sameer Barghouthi | General Director of the Arab Center for Agricultural Development (ACAD) | |
| Martino Miraglia | Policy and Programme Support Consultant, UNDP ART / Hub for Territorial Partnerships | |
| Masoud Qeshta | Deputy project manager, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in West Bank and Gaza Strip | |
| Lucia Maddoli | FELCOS Umbria, International Coordinator of Mediterranean CooBEEration project | |
| Munif Doudine | Bees specialist, Applied Research Institute –Jerusalem (ARIJ) | |
| Representative of the Ministry of Local Government | ||
| Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture of Palestine | ||
| 17:00 | Debate and conclusion |
| 9:00 | Beekeeping and Biodiversity |
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| Important Honeybee Nectariferous and Polleniferous Plant Species in the West Bank Governorates Imadeddin Albaba |
Senior Environment and Agriculture Consultant and Researcher | |
| Progress of the CooBEEration Research Tunisia Naima Barbouche |
National Agronomic Institute of Tunis (INAT) | |
| First results of CooBEEration research on the role of bees for biodiversity preservation Claudio Porrini |
Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Bologna |
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| 10:00-13:00 | Round table National strategy for the development of beekeeping sector in Palestine: toward the constitution of a National Beekeepers Federation and a strengthened dialogue with the Palestinian Government |
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Moderator: Saleh Alazhari |
Directorate of Agriculture in Ramallah | |
| Debate among representatives of all the Beekeepers Cooperatives/Associations of Palestine, APIMED members, Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture, Representative of the Ministry of Labour and other stakeholders. |
National Beekeeping Forum of Palestine
Ramallah, 25-26 May 2016 - Palestine Red Crescent Society in Al Bireh
Good practices for beekeeping and food security
