[Pollinator] Tool for assessing value of pollination services

[Ladadams at aol.com]

Thanks to Barbara Herren for sending  this. 
Tool for assessing value of pollination services  and national 
vulnerabilities to pollinator declines 
 (http://www.fao.org/uploads/pics/handfulpeppers.jpg) 
FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division, in  collaboration with INRA 
(Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, a  national government 
agency) has developed a tool for assessing the value of  pollination services 
and national vulnerabilities to pollinator declines.  
Guidelines explaining the use of the tool, and a  downloadable spreadsheet 
for applying the assessment, are available on the  "Documents" page of AGP's 
Global Action on Pollination Services for Sustainable  Agriculture website  
( _http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/_ 
(http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/) )  
The spreadsheet also presents as examples the analysis of  the 
vulnerability of the national economies of Ghana and Nepal, using 2005  FAOSTAT data. 
The economic value of pollinators in Ghana - with a high  dependence of its 
economy on cocoa production which in turn is 90% dependent on  insect 
pollinators for yields - was estimated at $788 million dollars; the  economic value 
of pollinators to the Nepal economy in 2005 was $81  million.








Laurie Davies Adams
Executive  Director
Pollinator Partnership 
423 Washington Street, 5th  floor
San Francisco, CA  94111
415-362-1137
LDA at pollinator.org

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