Beekeeping for poverty eradication: Reality or wishful thinking?

Buzzing with hope: Beekeeping is rising as a business among Batswana PICS: SHARON TSHIPA
Buzzing with hope: Beekeeping is rising as a business among Batswana PICS: SHARON TSHIPA

Beekeeping in many African countries is hampered by management and climate change problems, but in Botswana, these setbacks seem deeply entrenched, making it difficult for the sector to play a significant role in poverty eradication SHARON TSHIPA* writes

When Kago Monggae tasted honey for the first time at the age of 16, he could not understand how something that stung so painfully could produce something so sweet.    

“This one time I almost swallowed a bee that had snuck into my fizzy drink can. It stung me.”

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