[Pollinator] New paper on bees and industrial agriculture

[Becky Ellis]

Hi, 

Attached is the pdf. 

Thanks,

Becky


PhD candidate, Geography, Western University

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> On Mar 25, 2020, at 10:59 AM, barbara.bloetscher at agri.ohio.gov wrote:
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> It has limited access. The abstract sounds like it is an excellent study but we can’t access the paper. <>
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> From: Pollinator [mailto:pollinator-bounces+bbloetscher=agri.ohio.gov at lists.sonic.net] On Behalf Of Becky Ellis
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 9:39 AM
> To: Pollinator at lists.sonic.net
> Subject: [Pollinator] New paper on bees and industrial agriculture
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> Hi,  
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> I am pleased to share a newly published co-authored paper on bees and industrial agriculture in the Journal of Agrarian Change. 
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> From a free gift of nature to a precarious commodity: Bees, pollination services, and industrial agriculture
> Rebecca A. Ellis, Tony Weis, Sainath Suryanarayanan, & Kata Beilin
> https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12360 <https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1111%2Fjoac.12360&data=02%7C01%7Cbarbara.bloetscher%40agri.ohio.gov%7Cfacf561960254e6139a808d7d0c30fe6%7C50f8fcc494d84f0784eb36ed57c7c8a2%7C0%7C0%7C637207408515167682&sdata=%2BIp9KIvtapGcaE9tOddMyozf1rP4ihEf4qBl4HTGT3I%3D&reserved=0>
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> The growing crisis of bee health has shone a spotlight on the problems facing pollinator populations in many parts of the world, the worrying implications for agriculture and ecosystems, and some of the risks of pesticides. Although this attention is important and can open a range of critical vistas, the threats to bees, other pollinators, and the future of pollination are too often framed in narrow ways. The goal of this paper is to provide a systematic way of thinking about the crisis of bee populations by examining the changing dynamics of pollination within industrial agriculture, drawing heavily on transformations in the United States and Canada. We set out a case for understanding pollination as a biophysical barrier to industrial organization and the rise of pollination services as a response that temporarily fixes (or overrides) this barrier, while containing an internal set of contradictions and overrides. We argue that these dialectic relations are continually generating further problems and hope that this lens can help inform critical education, outreach, and movement building with respect to the urgent problems of bee and pollinator health. In particular, we stress the need to connect growing bee‐related advocacy with struggles to confront industrial capitalist agriculture.
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> London, ON is the original land of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Leni-Lanaape People.
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> The land is governed by the Dish With One Spoon agreement.
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> I stand in SOLIDARITY with the struggles of Indigenous People in Canada and the world. 
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