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Article alert: Farming with alternative pollinators (FAP) — An overlooked win-win-strategy for climate change adaptation
15.09.2012

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2012)
161: 161–164. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2012.07.030

Christmann, S., Aw-Hassanb, A.A.

Climate change has been identified as an additional major risk for pollinators, but pollinators are key species for agriculture, interaction within interdependent ecosystems and climate change adaptation of agro-ecosystems. Though agro-ecologists proved enhancement of crop production by wild pollinators, applied agricultural research and development did not take up such results to increase farm income as an incentive for farmers to engage in protection of wild pollinators. We suggest farming with alternative pollinators (FAP) as an integrated agro-ecological-socio-economic approach and a self-sustaining win-win-strategy for farmers, agro-ecosystems and climate change adaptation. In the course of climate change we regard wild pollinators and FAP as more reliable option than honeybees, particularly in higher elevations.


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Web Page Farming with alternative pollinators (FAP) (ScienceDirect)
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