As the UN marks World Bee Day on the 20th of May, this episode of The Weekly Tradecast looks at why bees are so important to our environment and economies with UNCTAD agriculture and trade consultant Marisa Rodrigues.
Mavilde de Assunção Alves has been a beekeeper for almost 15 years. Every week she sets up a table to sell honey on the main road or at the local market in Bailundo, a town in Angola’s central Huambo province. “I have many customers,” she says with a smile, although she admits that the work is challenging. Like most beekeepers in Angola, Ms. Alves walks many kilometres to tend to her hives dotted across the hilly landscape of her 45 hectares of farmland, where she also grows corn, beans, potatoes and other crops.
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A Sunwing flight attendant saved a passenger s life who went into cardiac arrest as a pilot made an emergency landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport this week.
A Sunwing flight attendant saved a passenger s life who went into cardiac arrest as a pilot made an emergency landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport this week.