[Pollinator] Apimonidia's ApiEcoFlora Symposium in San Marino this October

[Jennifer Tsang]

Thanks to Barbara Herren for forwarding the below and attached:



TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE CROP POLLINATION:

pollination deficits;

farm and landscape level practices

to enhance pollination services

ApiEcoFlora Symposium

October 4-6, 2012

San Marino

Plenary sessions

In a special symposium of Apimondia - "ApiEcoFlora" the Food and Agriculture

Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and NCB Naturalis are organising

sessions on Sustainable Crop Pollination. Through presentations and

discussions, solid inputs will be facilitated toward scientific publications
on

this topic, and an FAO guidance document on sustaining pollination services

to crops.

 

Session Themes:

CROP POLLINATION DEFICITS

Tree crops

Annual crops

Modelling crop pollination deficits

TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE POLLINATION SERVICES

Farm-level measures

Landscape-level measures

 

Other sessions in the ApiEcoFlora Symposium will address issues around bees
and environment,

including pesticides and organic beekeeping.

 

Deadline for abstracts: May 1, 2012. Please indicate if you intend to submit
a poster or a

presentation. Please send to: Barbara Herren, barbara.herren at fao.org

or Koos Biesmeijer, koos.biesmeijer at ncbnaturalis.nl

 

ApiEcoFlora aims at exploring avenues for improving the dialogue between
researchers,

beekeepers and plant breeders by reporting on the recent studies and
advances in the areas

of bees, environment and identifying the main challenges for sustainable
beekeeping, crop

production and plant breeding.

 

The 1st ApiEcoFlora Symposium will take place in San Marino, an independent
republic in the

heart of Italy on the Adriatic coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site since
2008. Information

about registration, the conference venue and accommodation options can be
found at

http://www.apieco_ora.com/.

 

Authors who would like to publish their quality papers presented at these

sessions in a special issue of the Journal of Pollination Ecology are
encouraged

to submit their manuscripts by 31 December, 2012. Please visit

www.pollinationecology.org and follow the author guidelines. referring to

"Apimondia" in the cover letter. All submissions will be peer-reviewed
before

possible acceptance.

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