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Martins, D. J. (2013). People, plants and pollinators: Uniting
conservation, food security, and sustainable agriculture in East Africa.
Chapter 27 in <u>Conservation Biology: Voices from the Tropics</u>. N. S.
Sodhi, L. Gibson and P. H. Raven, John Wiley & Sons<b>:
</b>232-238.<br>
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major challenge facing both social and development issues across the
world today is that of meeting not just food security, but nutritional
security for a rapidly growing human population. This is the reality
against which many decisions around conservation will need to be made. An
overlooked ecosystem service, pollination, is essential to both crops and
most terrestrial habitats with some 80% of angiosperms dependent on wild
pollinators. In developing regions like Eastern Africa, pollinators are
primarily wild insects that travel between farms and natural habitat, and
are extremely vulnerable to habitat loss and destruction. Pollinators
make a direct connection between wild species and food security.
Conserving pollinators provides a platform for increasing nutritional
security and connecting small-scale agriculture with conservation and
management of natural habitats. This chapter highlights some case studies
showing the links between wild pollinators, natural habitat, and rural
farmers.<br><br>
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