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Pollinators help one-third of the world's food crop production

10-25-2006 · EurekAlert!

Pollinators affect 35 percent of the world's food crop production, increasing the output of 87 of the leading crops worldwide, finds a new study co-authored by a UC Berkeley conservation biologist. The study is the first global estimate of food crop production that is reliant upon animal pollination. It comes one week after a National Research Council report detailed the troubling decline in populations of key North American pollinators.

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