Global farming trends put pollinators at risk, threaten food security, study claims
Story Date: 7/15/2019

 

Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 7/12/19

A multinational team of researchers has identified countries where agriculture’s increasing dependence on pollination, coupled with a lack of crop diversity, may threaten food security and economic stability. The study, which was published in the journal Global Change Biology on July 11, 2019, is the first global assessment of the relationship between trends in crop diversity and agricultural dependence on pollinators. 

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