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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Growing Shortage of Bees Threatens Agriculture
  • Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 07:35:01 -0700

Growing Shortage of Bees Threatens Agriculture
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/NEWS/daily_news_archive/2001/06_11_01.htm

Environmental biologist Peter Kevan, a professor from the University
of Guelph in Canada, said it is a fact that, due in part to pesticide
use, there is a growing global scarcity of bees and insects, and that
these pollinators are required to produce most of the world's fruits,
nuts, grains and vegetables. It seems logical, then, that crop
production and world commodity markets would be affected by the lack
of pollinators and that it would be possible to attach a dollar
amount to the losses. "Nonetheless, there is little information on
how the shortage is affecting the costs of food production," he said.
"There must be economic implications, and we should be able to figure
out what it is costing the consumer, who is benefiting from the
losses and who is not."




  • [Livingontheland] Growing Shortage of Bees Threatens Agriculture, Tradingpost, 02/06/2004

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