Climate Variability and Honey Bee Forage

Session: The session will be divided among three themes: biodiversity and the hidden cultural identity, Slow Food and the future of seed sovereignty, and Food rights and regenerative actions.

Biographical information: Frank Ademba is Country of We Effect and Chairperson for Kilimanjaro Convivial (Slow Food International). He has an extensive experience in community development work in Tanzania, particularly in Ecological sustainable agricultural practice and providing support to small-scale farmers. In his most recent project, Frank Ademba have been using different approach of interactive radio program on Ecological sustainable agriculture practices and using the Earth Market Approach on the concept of Agro ecology toward realization of good, clean and fair food for food communities. Frank has been, presenting papers in different universities and forum in Tanzania, Kenya, Italy, Czech-Republic, Germany, Spain, Netherlands and China on agrarian regime and food sovereignty, right to food and climate change. Reguli Marandu is currently the National Coordinator for Slow Food activities in Tanzania. He has a background in development studies, international trade policy and sustainable food systems. He has been working in development sector for the past 9 years focusing on sustainable livelihoods, agriculture, gender, and youth inclusion. He contributed to several publication including “Agro-biodiversity, School Gardens and Healthy Diets”, and a book Promoting Biodiversity, Food and Sustainable Nutrition published by Routledge. He is also an alumn