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'Cash crops' at risk from pollinator decline?(Brief article)
An international study of long-term trends in crop pollination has concluded that an increasing reliance of developing countries on pollinator-dependent crops, such as coffee, could reduce these nations' crop harvests if pollinator numbers continue to decline.
'The fact that while pollinators are declining in various parts of the world, global agricultural systems are becoming more dependent on pollinators could create serious problems in the future,' says CSIRO's Dr Saul Cunningham, a co-author of the study, published in the journal Current Biology.
The researchers are concerned that pollinator shortages--including the well-documented global decline in bee populations--might have already started to affect crops that rely heavily on pollination.
However, pollinator decline to date does not appear to have limited global crop yields, according to the study's analysis of FAO data from 1961-2006.
'While this is a positive finding, the interaction between yields ...
- GBP10 million initiative launched to tackle bee and pollinator decline.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire April 21, 2009 700+ words
M2 PRESSWIRE-21 April 2009-UK Government: GBP10 million initiative launched to tackle bee and pollinator decline(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21042009 Up to GBP10 million is to be invested to help to identify the main threats...
- Global decline in outsourcing demand arrested: TCS.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. June 17, 2009 700+ words
Global decline in outsourcing demand arrested: TCS Bangalore, Jun 17 (PTI) Decline in global demand for outsourcing has been "arrested...
- Mammals in global decline.
- Magazine article from: World Watch Runyan, Curtis January 1, 1997 700+ words
...status of birds as an indicator of the level of threat to all terrestrial life-forms (see "Flying Into Trouble: The Global Decline of Birds, and What it Means," January/February 1994). The number of mammals on the Red List - a shocking 1,096...
- China Defies Global Decline in Wireless Carrier Spending.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire April 16, 2009 700+ words
M2 PRESSWIRE-16 April 2009-iSuppli Corporation: China Defies Global Decline in Wireless Carrier Spending(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15042009 El Segundo, Calif -- China in 2009 is expected...
- Global decline: ITB delegates hear the worst.
- News wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence April 3, 2002 700+ words
Apr 04, 2002 (Traveltrade ABIX via COMTEX) -- A study by the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) has found that the global tourism market suffered significant decline in 2001. Although the slump was not as drastic as some in the industry had predicted, the results for 2001 were disappointing compared
- Global decline in biodiversity.(CLIPPINGS)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: American Forests September 22, 2008 700+ words
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature announced recently that global biodiversity has been reduced by nearly one third in the past 35 years, according to the Environmental News Network. The WWF attributes most of this decline to habitat loss and wildlife trade, but warns that climate change will
- Global decline.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME Pawlowski, Gerard March 1, 2008 700+ words
To the Editor: I don't give a bent bolt for your silly alligators and lions. How could you claim to focus an issue (January) on globalization without a word for the machinists and toolmakers who are stocking the marts with those imported goods, hmm? Even if we engineers are so damnably insular that
- The global decline of primates. (includes related article on the maias of...
- Magazine article from: World Watch Tuxill, John September 1, 1997 700+ words
And it's not just the number of hunters that is increasing; the growing use of guns is increasing the efficiency of the hunting as well. Even in remote regions, hunters who once relied upon nets, snares, and blowguns now have access to powerful shotguns, which are often introduced by traders,