Why Bees Matter – The importance of bees and other pollinators for food and agriculture (2018)

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) collaborated with the Republic of Slovenia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Food to create this pamphlet in 2018 for World Bee Day: Why Bees Matter – The importance of bees and other pollinators for food and agriculture. It reports that 3 out of 4 crops across the … Read more

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Pollinator Partnership (website)

Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. Nutritionists can design menus and/or landscaping plans for their own homes, or with their communities in gardens, orchards or commons such as parks, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, schools, religious centres, hospitals, prisons, restaurants – and more! … Read more

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Pollinator Friendly Cookbook

Use this cookbook by Pollinator Partnership to create culinary masterpieces that honor pollinators and the work that they do. Food is a basic human need, and without pollinators, humans would go hungry! 🦅 🦇 🐝 🦋 🪲 🪰 Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, flies, and small animals that pollinate plants are responsible for bringing us … Read more

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Pollinator Partnership Webinars (many)

Pollinator Partnership series of webinars and workshops are from North America, but lessons that can be applied with your own species the world over. Pollinators and optimal human nutrition go hand in hand and this series of webinars is for Dietitians and Nutritionists (D-Ns) who are ready to take action to heal the environment at … Read more

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Pollinator Power: Nutrition Security Benefits of an Ecosystem Service (2015 Aug)

From the introduction: The world has been abuzz with the dramatic losses of cultivated honey bees due to colony collapse disorder as well as declines of native pollinator species across the globe. Scientists have recently begun calculating the extent to which food crops depend on animal pollinators including bees, butterflies, and bats, with one study … Read more

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