The Role of Pollination in Improving Food Security and Livelihoods

摘要: The focus of agriculture is slowly shifting from traditional cereal crops to high-value cash farming such as fruits and vegetables. This transformation subsistence systems commercial poses new challenges for improving maintaining productivity quality. Among these are crop failures due inadequate pollination. caused by several factors, the most important which include lack adequate number pollinators a result decline in pollinator populations diversity factors wilderness loss habitat, land use changes, monoculture-dominated excessive indiscriminate agricultural chemicals pesticides. Consequently, need ensuring pollination particularly through conserving incorporating managed has increased will increase further. calls more intensive on issue perspective policy, research, development extension. Policy reorientation, institutional capabilities human resources key areas needing attention.