Technicians and researchers from the University of Mekelle, from the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, located Northeast of Africa, will be trained by Embrapa Mid-North and the Federal Universidade of Piauí (UFPI) in genetic markers and morphometry in Apis mellifera population studies and systematics. The training will also incluse honey quality control through lab analyses. The capacity-building event will take place in Teresina, from February 11 to 19, at Embrapa Mid-North's headquarters. The professor Fábio Barros Brito, from UFPI, and the PhD candidate Geice Ribeiro da Silva will teach the lessons on genetic markers at the center's Molecular Biology Laboratory. Meanwhile, the training on honey quality will be led by the Embrapa researcher Ana Lúcia Horta. The Ethiopians Abrehet Gebrekristos Teklu, Birhane Gebreanania Gebremedhin, Ekuba Gebrehaweria Gebrekrstos, Mohammed Tilahun Tessema and Teka Tareke Kahsay will also learn about Embrapa's research in the Brazilian Northeast with stingless bees and Africanizes bees. From the 20th to the 22nd, the group will visit apiaries, hive factories and honey producer cooperatives in the towns of Picos and Simplício Mendes, in the Southwest of Piauí state. The training is an activity under the scope of the sustainable Apis Mellifera bee production management project to ensure food security in Ethiopia's rural areas, which is coordinated in Brazil by the researcher Patrícia Maria Drumond, from Embrapa Acre. The project is part of M-BoSs, an international initiative supported by several partners, especially the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Kingdom Department of International Development (DFID), and the Forum for Agriculture Research in Africa (FARA). Translation: Mariana Medeiros