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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>Dear David,</font>
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<font size=2>We recently posted a news item related to pollination
services on our website, and thought that you might like to pass this
same message on to the POLPAL listserve. I have pasted it below,
along with the relevant link.<br>
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<font size=2>with best regards,</font> <br><br>
<font size=2>Barbara</font> </blockquote><br>
"Herren, Barbara (AGPS)"
<Barbara.Herren@fao.org><br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=5><b>Tool for
assessing value of pollination services and national vulnerabilities to
pollinator declines</b></font> <br>
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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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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 <br><br>
(
<a href="http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/">
<font color="#0000FF"><u>
http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/</a></u></font>)
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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.</blockquote></body>
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