Phase II of the Renitantely Project focuses on enhancing beekeeper's knowledge and capacity to ensure the sustainability of their livelihoods created in phase I. With an aim of transforming their beekeeping businesses into professional enterprises, it will equip beekeepers with robust skills to manage their businesses. Ultimately, this provides them with financial resilience, allowing them to support their families and communities all while benefiting local flora and fauna.
81% of Madagascar's population lives on less than $2.15 per day leading to pervasive health, educational, and environmental problems. These economic struggles are especially felt in southeast Anosy where SEED works. In this region, economic struggles are attributed to the lack of sustainable livelihood opportunities. While most families engage in small-scale farming, animal husbandry, and fishing they do not provide a complete way out of poverty and would benefit from a supplemental livelihood.
With beekeepers equipped with the basic materials and knowledge for their livelihood, SEED aims to improve the businesses' robustness by elevating brand dependency, increasing knowledge, and strengthening routes to market. SEED will help expand apiaries and set quality standards to promote product consistency. To increase knowledge, beekeepers will receive financial literacy and entrepreneurship training. Additionally, contracts with existing and emerging buyers will be formalised.
SEED's direct assistance and beekeeper capacity building promotes business independence and financial resilience, which allows beekeepers to optimise their businesses and generate income to support their families and communities. Environmentally, bee husbandry cultivates and maintains Madagascar's rich flora and fauna. A third of the funding has been secured, but greater impact will be felt once the goal is met. Please assist us by providing that extra impact for the beekeepers' livelihoods.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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