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<P><FONT face=Arial><EM>Thanks to Barbara Herren for sending
this.</EM></FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT face=Arial size=5>Tool for assessing value of pollination services
and national vulnerabilities to pollinator declines</FONT></B> <BR><FONT face=Arial> </FONT><A title=http://www.fao.org/uploads/pics/handfulpeppers.jpg href="http://www.fao.org/uploads/pics/handfulpeppers.jpg"></A>
<BR><FONT face=Arial>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.
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<P><FONT face=Arial>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 </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>( </FONT><A title=http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/ href="http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/"><U><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/</FONT></U></A><FONT face=Arial>)</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>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.</FONT></P><BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face="Gill Sans MT" size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Laurie Davies Adams<BR>Executive
Director<BR><B>Pollinator Partnership </B><BR>423 Washington Street, 5th
floor<BR>San Francisco, CA
94111<BR>415-362-1137<BR>LDA@pollinator.org</FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face="Gill Sans MT" color=#0000ff size=4 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="14"><B><A href="http://www.pollinator.org/">www.pollinator.org</A></B></FONT><FONT lang=0 face="Gill Sans MT" color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B><BR><A href="http://www.nappc.org/">www.nappc.org</A><BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face="Gill Sans MT" color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12"><B><I>National Pollinator Week is June 21-27, 2010. <BR>Beecome
involved at <A href="http://www.pollinator.org/">www.pollinator.org</A></I></FONT></B></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>