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| Formation | 1895 |
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| Headquarters | International Federation of Beekeepers' Associations Corso Vittorio Emanuele 101 I-00186 Rome, Italy |
Acting President | 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. [1]
The federation issues a journal, Apiacta. The 2003 and 2004 issues are available online free of charge. [2]
Since 1897, every other year Apimondia organizes beekeepers' congresses, hosted by different countries. [3]
Apimondia maintains seven scientific commissions and five regional commissions for the purposes of furthering scientific understanding of apiculture and to facilitate exchange of information. [4]
The scientific commissions include:
| 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 |
| 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 [6] |