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JUNE 2017 UPDATE FROM THE HONEY VALUE CHAIN The honey value chain is in the third year of implementation! You would recall that we started in 2014 in Adetsav community in Benue State. We successfully piloted for two years and are convinced beyond doubt that the project is sustainable and can be replicated in other communities with all the accompanying benefits. It is now time for scaling up.  Some beehives are ready and we are set to go to new sites. We are at the first site and the villagers insisted we must pay them money before we suspend the beehives on their trees. We moved to other villages that enthusiastically agreed to the wealth creation terms we offered and we were accepted. We are in one of the villages and our beehives are suspended on trees and it is time to take photographs of the benefiting women. And here comes Deborah (not real name). She is very reluctant to come for the photograph but for the fact that it is part of the conditions of having ownersh