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Uganda Beehive Fences

Malaika Honey is a dynamic social enterprise based in Uganda whose mission is “Beekeeping for a better future”.

They have a network of beekeeping projects throughout Uganda and help farmers with the whole value chain of honey production to ensure the farmers benefit completely from their beekeeping enterprises.

Their aim is to eradicate poverty in rural areas through beekeeping and their workshops and training support for farmers is very comprehensive.

“We tried trenches and failed because elephants could cover them with soil. We used gun shooting to scare away the animals it also failed. Now, we have resorted to bee fencing – and so far, so good.”

– Innocent Kahwa, community liaison officer at Volcano Safaris Partnership Trust (VSPT)

“The beehive fences have a number of advantages beyond keeping out elephants, the bees help to pollinate crops and increase yields, and farmers will be able to produce and sell honey for extra income.”

– Bijampola, beekeeper and beekeeper teacher

Sources – Daily Monitor / The Guardian

Malaika Honey saw the advantage of combining their beekeeping activities and small businesses with the Beehive Fence concept as several of their farmers were also experiencing crop-raiding on their farms.

Malaika supported some of the farmers to hang some of their beehives in a beehive fence structure and even made a fun video of the experience!

The video is written and performed by the Omumashaka Beekeepers, and produced by Malaika Honey

The farmers have had interest in their beehive fence project from within Uganda by the local media and we hope that as the data comes in from Malaika’s beehive fence project, we will start to see if beehive fences could be a viable option to help other human-elephant conflict affected farmers in the country.