{{Short description|Beekeeping organization}} {{Infobox organization | name = Apimondia | formation = 1895 | logo = Apimondia Logo.png | logo_size = 250 | headquarters = International Federation of Beekeepers' Associations Corso Vittorio Emanuele 101 I-00186 Rome, Italy | leader_title = Acting President | leader_name = Peter Kozmus | website = https://www.apimondia.org/ }}
'''Apimondia''' or '''International Federation of Beekeepers' Associations''' promotes scientific, ecological, social and economic apicultural development in all countries and the cooperation of beekeepers` associations, scientific bodies and of individuals involved in apiculture worldwide. The name ''Apimondia'' is a compound word made from two words; api, referring to honey bees, and mondia, referring to the world.<ref name="What does Apimondia mean?">{{cite web|title=South Korea Won the Bid for the APIMONDIA 2015 at APIMONDIA 2011 Argentina|url=http://www.wpsf.kr/bbs/zboard.php?id=en_notice&no=50|publisher=World Propolis Science Forum|date=27 January 2012|accessdate=1 September 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030918/http://www.wpsf.kr/bbs/zboard.php?id=en_notice&no=50|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The federation issues a journal, ''Apiacta''. The 2003 and 2004 issues are available online free of charge.<ref>[http://www.beekeeping.com/apimondia/apiacta_us.htm Apiacta]</ref>
Since 1897, every other year Apimondia organizes beekeepers' congresses, hosted by different countries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.beekeeping.com/apimondia/index_us.htm |title=Apimondia congresses |access-date=2009-11-12 |archive-date=2010-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206103100/http://beekeeping.com/apimondia/index_us.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Apimondia maintains seven scientific commissions and five regional commissions for the purposes of furthering scientific understanding of apiculture and to facilitate exchange of information.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apimondia.com/en/home |title=Welcome to Apimondia website |website=www.apimondia.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110625073418/http://www.apimondia.com/en/home |archive-date=2011-06-25}} </ref>
The scientific commissions include: * Beekeeping Economy * Bee Health * Bee Biology * Pollination and Bee Flora * Beekeeping Technology and Quality * Apitherapy * Beekeeping for Rural Development
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==List of congresses== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! No. !! Year !! Place !! Country |- |I||1897||Brussels||Belgium |- |II||1900||Paris||France |- |III||1902||'s-Hertogenbosch||Netherlands |- |IV||1910||Brussels||Belgium |- |V||1911||Turin||Italy |- |VI||1922||Marseille||France |- |VII||1924||Quebec City||Canada |- |VIII||1928||Turin||Italy |- |IX||1932||Paris||France |- |X||1935||Brussels||Belgium |- |XI||1937||Paris||France |- |XII||1939||Zurich||Switzerland |- |XIII||1949||Amsterdam||Netherlands |- |XIV||1951||Leamington Spa||United Kingdom |- |XV||1954||Copenhagen||Denmark |- |XVI||1956||Vienna||Austria |- |XVII||1958||Rome||Italy |- |XVIII||1961||Madrid||Spain |- |XIX||1963||Prague||Czechoslovakia |- |XX||1965||Bucharest||Romania |- |XXI||1967||Maryland||United States |- |XXII||1969||Munich||West Germany |- |XXIII||1971||Moscow||Soviet Union |- |XXIV||1973||Buenos Aires||Argentina |- |XXV||1975||Grenoble||France |- |XXVI||1977||Adelaide||Australia |- |XXVII||1979||Athens||Greece |- |XXVIII||1981||Acapulco||Mexico |- |XXIX||1983||Budapest||Hungary |- |XXX||1985||Nagoya||Japan |- |XXXI||1987||Warsaw||Poland |- |XXXII||1989||Rio de Janeiro||Brazil |- |<s>XXXIII</s> (canceled)<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1992 |title=Katalog poštanskih maraka Jugoslavije izdanja 1991-2001. |journal=Katalog poštanskih maraka Jugoslavije |language=sr |location=Belgrade |issue=1991-2001 |pages=6 |issn=0354-7841}}</ref>||<s>1991</s>||''Split''||''Yugoslavia'' |- |XXXIII||1993||Beijing||China |- |XXXIV||1995||Lausanne||Switzerland |- |XXXV||1997||Antwerp||Belgium |- |XXXVI||1999||Vancouver||Canada |- |XXXVII||2001||Durban||South Africa |- |XXXVIII||2003||Ljubljana||Slovenia |- |XXXIX||2005||Dublin||Ireland |- |XL||2007||Melbourne||Australia |- |XLI||2009||Montpellier||France |- |XLII||2011||Buenos Aires||Argentina |- |XLIII||2013||Kyiv||Ukraine |- |XLIV||2015||Daejeon||South Korea |- |XLV||2017||Istanbul||Turkey |- |XLVI||2019||Montreal||Canada |- |XLVII||2022||Istanbul||Turkey |- |XLVIII||2023||Santiago||Chile<ref>{{cite web |title=47th Apimondia Apicultural Congress |url=https://www.apimondia.org/congress-2022.html |website=apimondia.org |publisher=Apimondia |access-date=10 July 2022}}</ref> |- |XLIX||2025||Copenhagen||Denmark<ref>[https://apimondia2025.com/ Apimondia 2025]</ref> |}<ref name="APIMONDIA: Past Congresses">{{cite web|title=APIMONDIA: Past Congresses|url=http://www.apimondia.com/en/activities/past-events/congresses|publisher=International Federation of Beekeepers' Associations|accessdate=1 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423073342/http://www.apimondia.com/en/activities/past-events/congresses|archive-date=23 April 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[https://www.apimondia.org/ APIMONDIA Home page]
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