Beekeeping, like farming, has exceeded its previous use of harvesting for domestic use. It’s a pathway to empowering rural women and young people, nurturing economic resilience, and ecological sustainability. Our beneficiaries under the Empower project, who undertook training on modern transformative beekeeping, were provided with soft skills, branding, marketing, and honey processing training to enable them to make the most out of it.
Participants were taught the essential skills for beekeeping ventures, including soft skills development for effective communication and collaboration, branding, and marketing strategies. This training was necessary, as it will also serve to reach wider markets. Other aspects of the training included advanced honey processing techniques to meet the current market standard and direct linkages with honey retailers for market access and growth opportunities.
The training aims to ensure that participants can navigate challenges and contribute meaningfully to their communities’ economic development through sustainable practices. as well as serve as advocates and mentors to others within their communities. Beekeeping is not just an economic intervention, but also a means to combat climate change.