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World Bee Day, 20 May 2020 – celebrating our silent food heroes

Ceremony celebrates bees’ crucial contribution to food security, nutrition and sustainable development - special focus on supporting beekeepers’ livelihoods in the time of COVID-19


A wide variety of plants critical to human well-being and livelihoods require pollinators. In fact, three out of four crops across the globe producing fruits or seeds for human consumption depend, at least in part, on bees and other pollinators. However, today these tiny food heroes are declining in alarming numbers largely due to intensive farming practices, excessive use of agricultural chemicals and higher temperatures associated with climate change.



In addition, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic impact on the beekeeping sector affecting the production, the market and as a consequence, the livelihoods of beekeepers. Beekeeping offers decent working opportunities and income generation to people in extreme poverty, including women, youth and even disabled people. It is important to recognize its crucial role in fighting poverty and malnutrition, and help beekeepers overcome the challenges they encounter in the time of pandemic.

This year’s theme “Bee Engaged” will shed light on good practices adopted by beekeepers to support their livelihoods and deliver good quality products. It will also highlight the importance of traditional knowledge related to beekeeping, the use of bee-derived products and services, and the role of bees and beekeepers in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
On the occasion of the third observance of World Bee Day, on 20 May 2020, FAO, in partnership with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), the Permanent Representation of Slovenia and Apimondia, will hold a virtual celebration.

The event will be webcast here<http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/5270/icode/>.
The celebration can be followed on social media using the hashtag #WorldBeeDay.

What:           World Bee Day 2020 – Virtual celebration



When:          Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 12:00 -13:30 (Rome time)



Who:

                       QU Dongyu, Director-General, FAO

                       Aleksandra Pivec, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, Republic of Slovenia

Tang Huajun, President, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)

                       Jeff Pettis, President, International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations (Apimondia)

                       Max Rünzel, Project Coordinator, World Bee Count

Joseph Cazier, Director of the Center for Analytics Research and                               Education, Appalachian State University

                       Nicola Bradbear, Director, Bees for Development and President,

Pradeep Mehta, Honorary Chairman, Central Himalayan Institute for Nature & Applied Research (CHINAR), India



Carlos H. Vergara B., Senior Proffessor, Universidad de las Ameěricas Puebla, Mexico



Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, FAO


Where:         FAO webcast:
http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/5270/icode/




A video recording of a special panel discussion “Talking Bees” on the importance of bees and the threats facing them, moderated by the BBC Radio 4 presenter Martha Kearney, will be made available on 20 May on the World Bee Day website<http://www.fao.org/world-bee-day/en/>.

The discussion features the participation of Nicola Bradbear, Founder of Bees for Development and President of Apimondia’s Scientific Commission for Beekeeping for Rural Development; Abram J. Bicksler,  Agricultural Officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);  Dave Goulson,  Professor of Biology,  University of Sussex; and  Dr. Samuel Ramsey, Entomologist, Bee Research Lab of the United States Department of Agriculture - Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS).

Download the photos from the event here<https://www.flickr.com/photos/faonews/sets/72157714297401936/>.


RESOURCES
World Bee Day website<http://www.fao.org/world-bee-day/en/>

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