Apimondia Pollination & Food Security: Plenary SessionWin-win Scenarios Between Pollinator Diversity and Crop Yield

摘要

"Closing the gaps in crop yield, while enhancing sustainability, is among the greatest challenges for achieving food security. Ecological intensification, the improvement of crop yield through ecosystem services provided by biodiversity, may be a sustainable pathway. However, data supporting such an approach is missing, especially for two billion small-holders, many of which are undernourished. Despite fruit or seed set of many crops relying on pollinators, management for improved pollination services is uncommon, likely contributing to yield gaps globally. Indeed, pollination has been neglected even in the studies analysing the continental or global drivers of yield gaps"( 2015, Apimondia, "Scientific Program Extracts", p. 20).