Beekeeping Revival in Northern Syria (IACO in Partnership with Mercy Hands Europe and supportive donors)
This project was started in 2020, as still ongoing till now , the project is wide range activities among several related stackholders and local institutional bodies.
This project helps to support and rebuild the beekeeping sector around Al-Bab in northern Aleppo countryside. War has left bees short of forage and biodiversity in the project area. To address this, flowering plants are grown in a nursery with IACO and distributed to beneficiaries to sustain their beekeeping. The project also covers:
- Training for local beekeepers, including women and men, and the creation of three beekeeping cooperatives.
- An artificial insemination center to produce local queen bees, which strengthens the sector’s independence.
- Nursery establishment for flowering ornamental plant production, with 20K seedlings/ year. to support biodiversity and increase the flowering plants in the area.
- Marketing and honey quality control; the project focused on produce high quality natural organic honey though make sure that the beekeepers are using standard breeding and production processes that they have concessively learned though the serval training and workshops sessions during the last five years.
- More than 90 former beekeepers who lost their apiaries in the war, have got supported by providing them with bees, beehives, tools, other needed production materials, so they can produce honey again and earn their own income, these steps restore livelihoods and protect biodiversity.
- More than 25K person have benefited from the project over five years.
Tanks To Mercy Hands Europe (MHEU) and all our respectful donors