Curridabat, Costa Rica

Image Credit: City of Curridabat

We are collaborating with the award-winning city of Curridabat to establish it as a World Bee City©. Curridabat will become an important node in the World Hive Network©, a worldwide knowledge-sharing bee database connecting people to the global movement to protect pollinators.

Our partnership aims to forge new paths in sustainable urban planning. We will share the knowledge, strategy, planning, tools, methods, and the experience that Curridabat has developed with forward-thinking municipalities and inner city-communities around the world.

What’s good for bees is good for people

Curridabat has transformed the planning paradigms for environmental, social and economic development and consolidated an innovative city regeneration plan named Ciudad Dulce™ (Sweet City) for which it has won numerous awards.

This Precision Apiculture project seeks to enhance the health and effectiveness of managed honeybees for soft fruit production. The research challenge has been identified specifically by industry partners.

Other Projects

‘Super Farm’, North India

We initiated a two-year project in north India in partnership with the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development (SAPD) University of Reading, United Kingdom, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India, and Himalayan Farmlands Initiative, a local NGO.

Women, Bees, and Biodiversity

To celebrate the right to life, food, shelter and wellbeing, for women and bees in adversity and to recognise the role of women in biodiversity, Sabiha Malik imagined a model that could be implemented in areas where socio-economic inequalities constrain the capacity of the poorest and most vulnerable women living in hardship conditions.

World Bee Count

To engage people everywhere in celebrating pollinators on World Bee Day, The World Bee Project launched World Bee Count 2020. We invited people to take a picture of the nearest pollinator they could find and upload it to an interactive Global Pollinator Map, using a free mobile app.