Pollination contributes to one-third of the world’s agricultural crops production, says Food and Agriculture Organization
Pollinators, including bees, have declined. According to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services report, it is not understood why or how, in the global context, pollination deficits are presently not impacting global production when there is increasing documentation of local pollinator and pollination deficits coupled in some instances with economic loss.
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