POLLINATORS POLLINATION AND FOOD PRODUCTION

THE ASSESSMENT REPORT ON POLLINATORS, POLLINATION AND FOOD PRODUCTION
Pollinator Strategy (NPS) 5 ; French National Action Plan 6 ;
Insect Pollinators Initiative (IPI) 7 ; International Commission
for Pollinator Plant Relationships (ICCPR) 8 ; International
Pollinator Initiative (IPI) 9 ; Irish Pollinator Initiative 10 ; North
American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) 11 ;
Oceania Pollinator Initiative (OPI) 12 ; Pollinator Partnership 13 ;
Prevention of honey bee Colony Losses (COLOSS) 14 ; Status
and Trends of European Pollinators (STEP) 15 ; Sustainable
pollination in Europe – joint research on bees and other
pollinators (SUPER-B) 16 ; Wales Action Plan for Pollinators 17 ;
White House – Pollinator Research Action Plan 18 . There are
also other initiatives being developed or planned.
3. ASSESSMENT STRUCTURE
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The Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production
assessment comprises of six chapters. Chapter 1 reviews
the diversity of pollinators and pollination systems and their
role in supporting food production specifically and human
well-being and biodiversity maintenance more generally.
Chapter 2 assesses the drivers of change of pollinators,
pollinator-plant networks and pollination, especially those of
importance for food production, including local crops, wild
food plants and honey. Chapter 3 assesses the state of
and trends in pollinators, pollination networks and pollination
as keystone ecological process and service in both human
managed and natural terrestrial ecosystems. Chapter 4
reviews the economic methodologies for determining the
value of pollination for food production and the economic
impacts of declines in food-relevant pollinator populations.
Chapter 5 focuses on non-economic valuation, with
special emphasis on the experience of indigenous and local
communities, of impacts of the decline of diversity and/or
populations of pollinators. Chapter 6 assesses responses
to risks associated with the degradation of pollination and
opportunities to restore and strengthen those services.
5. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pollinatorstrategy-for-bees-and-other-pollinators-in-england
6. http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/15069_PNApollinisateurs-sauvages_DEF_Light_Page-a-page.pdf
7. https://wiki.ceh.ac.uk/display/ukipi/Home
8. http://www.nationalbeeunit.com/index.cfm?sectionid=88
9. http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/jsp/intpollinitiative.jsp
10. http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/
11. http://pollinator.org/nappc/
12. http://www.oceanicpollinators.org/
13. http://www.pollinator.org/
14. http://www.coloss.org
15. http://www.step-project.net/
16. http://www.superb-project.eu/
17. http://www.biodiversitywales.org.uk/Wales-Action-Plan-for-Pollinators
18. https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/
Pollinator%20Research%20Action%20Plan%202015.pdf
The organization of the assessment report allows each
chapter to be read as a standalone document with a focus
on sub-thematic pollination/pollinator-related topics. The
appendices will provide a glossary of terms, abbreviations,
and acronyms.
3.1 Process summary
The thematic assessment of pollinators, pollination
and food production was prepared in accordance with
decision IPBES-2/5 on the IPBES work programme.
The Multidisciplinary Expert Panel along with the Bureau
prepared an initial scoping document for this assessment
(IPBES/2/16/Add.1), which served as a basis for the
second session of the IPBES Plenary (Antalya, 2013) to
approve the undertaking of a thematic assessment. The
assessment report has been developed in accordance
with the procedures for the preparation of Platform
deliverables (annex I to decision IPBES-3/3). Governments
and stakeholders nominated experts for the author
team. The final author team consists of two Co-chairs,
19 Coordinating Lead Authors, 41 Lead Authors and
14 Review Editors. In addition, during the development
of the assessment report, authors selected an additional
35 Contributing Authors to help strengthen various parts
of individual chapters. The assessment report underwent
two internal review rounds, followed by one formal external
review by experts and by a second external formal review,
which also included the draft Summary for Policymakers
(SPM), by governments and experts. Revisions were made
after each review in close collaboration with Review Editors
who ensured that all comments were fully considered.
The pollination assessment team received approximately
10,300 comments from 280 expert reviewers (combined
from the First Review by experts and the Second Review
by Governments and experts) from over 50 countries. The
SPM was approved by the fourth session of the IPBES
Plenary (Kuala Lumpur, 22-28 February, 2016), and its
individual chapters accepted.
4. COMMUNICATION OF THE DEGREE
OF CONFIDENCE
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In this assessment, the degree of certainty in each
main finding is based on the quantity, quality and level
of agreement in the evidence (Figure 3). The evidence
includes data, theory, models and expert judgement. Further
details of the approach adopted by IPBES are documented
in Chapter 4 of the Guide on production and integration of
assessments from and across all scales (IPBES/4/INF/9).
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PREFACE