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From: Barbara.Herren@fao.org<BR>To: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com<BR>Sent:
3/7/2012 7:30:06 A.M. Pacific Standard Time<BR>Subj: [beemonitoring] handbook
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<P class=MsoNoSpacing><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>FAO-IIED
Press release<O></O></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>5-step guide
to help farmers evaluate agriculture’s hidden heroes<O></O></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>Smallholder
farmers will soon be better able to weigh up the cost and benefits of adopting
new practices that support some of the most overlooked contributors to global
food security — the insects and other animals that pollinate their crops and
boost yields. <O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>“Three quarters
of all food crops need insect pollinators such as bees to get good yields, and
35% of all food production globally comes from crops dependent on pollinators
— but there are worrying reports of declines in pollinators from several
regions of the world,” says Barbara Gemmill-Herren of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO). <O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>Now, Maryanne
Grieg-Gran of the International Institute for Environment and Development and
Gemmill-Herren have co-authored a handbook that smallholder farmers and
organizations that work with them can use to identify such pollinator-friendly
practices and evaluate their impacts on livelihoods, incomes and health.
<O></O></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>“Sharing
information with farmers about pollinator-friendly practices is a good first
step,” says Grieg-Gran. “But farmers will adopt pollinator-friendly practices
only if they can see that these practices will bring benefits to them – and
while cash always helps, other less tangible benefits may also be
important.”<O></O></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>There are
striking examples of farmers managing for pollination services - in Ghana, a
mango farmer realized some of the common weeds growing under his trees
attracted pollinators into the orchard. To conserve those pollinator species,
the farmer chose to hand-weed rather than use herbicide even though weeding
was four times more expensive. In South ern India, farmers who grow coffee and
cardamom have chosen to plant selections of shade trees that flower at
different times from the crops to ensure continuous forage for the
pollinators. But farmers are often not aware of how best to manage their
farms to make the most of this natural service.<O></O></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>The handbook,
which will be published on 8 March by FAO, draws on work with farmers in
Ghana, India, Kenya and Nepal.<O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>To improve
pollination of their horticultural crops, farmers in the Mankessim area of
Ghana chose to try out reducing pesticide use, protect riverside vegetation
and sacred groves that provide habitat for poll inators and allow flowering
plants to grow along field borders. <O></O></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>In Uttarakhand
State, in India, farmers who plant grasses to prevent soil erosion at the
edges of their fields could instead use plants that also attract pollinators.
<O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>The handbook
provides a five-step approach, centred in the farmer field school tradition,
for smallholders to assess current production systems, identifying and testing
new practices, and evaluating their impacts. It will enable farmers to weigh
up the costs and benefits of adopting different approaches to
farming.<O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>“Wild
pollinators are some of the most important contributors to global food
security, but farmers often overlook them,” says Maryanne Grieg-Gran of IIED.
“Farmers need to be directly involved in testing practices that encourage
pollinators to visit their crops so that they can assess the benefits and
costs for themselves.”<O></O></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>Barbara
Gemmill-Herren of FAO adds: “As agriculture intensifies with large-scale
monocultures and greater use of agricultural chemicals, pollinators are
increasingly threatened. There is a critical need to develop agricultural
practices that sustain and increase yields, based on the ecosystem services
such as pollination provided by wild species. 221;<O></O></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>The publication
has been produced under the Global Pollination Project, a Global Environment
Facility-supported project, implemented by United Nations Environment
Programme and executed by the Food and Agriculture Organization, with seven
national partners. The production of the handbook was facilitated by funding
from the International Fund for Agricultural Development.<O></O></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>To
download the book as a PDF visit</SPAN></I></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB> <A
title=http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/documents.do
href="http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/documents.do">http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/documents.do</A><B><I><O></O></I></B></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>Contacts
for interviews <O></O></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>Maryanne
Grieg-Gran<O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>Principal
researcher<O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>International
Institute for Environment and Development<O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB><A
title=mailto:Maryanne@iied.org
href="mailto:Maryanne@iied.org">Maryanne@iied.org</A> / +44
(0)2034637399<O></O></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>Barbara
Gemmill-Herren,<O></O></SPAN></P>
<P cl ass="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Focal Point, International Pollinator
Initiative<O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN class=st><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
lang=EN-GB>Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations</SPAN><O></O></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB><A
title=mailto:Barbara.Herren@fao.org
href="mailto:Barbara.Herren@fao.org">Barbara.Herren@fao.org</A> / +39
0657056838 </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB><O></O></SPAN></P>
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