Caring for Pollinators - Bundesamt für Naturschutz

Dias The Brazilian Pollinators Initiative (BPI)
Subproject 7: Crop Management and Pollinators Diversity in tomato
(Lycopersicon esculentum, Solanaceae) crops in the State of São
Paulo
Objective: to evaluate in tomato crops how opposite
techniques (organic and traditional) and the landscape
frame have influenced on pollinators diversity in
agriculture systems. The preliminary results will be the
base for a management plan proposal to identify bees as
a potential pollinators and so to guarantee the arrival,
establishment and maintenance of the pollinators in the
crop areas. The subproject also has a goal to disseminate
the research results and to give permission to the local
farmers to access information about the importance of
pollinators to increase the crop output and about the
importance of pollinators conservation.
Administration: State University of São Paulo– UNESP
administrates and implements the project.
Agreement value: US$ 51,712.75 funded by PROBIO, with a
co-funding of US$ 31,189.65.
(This subproject has received an initial
disbursement from PROBIO of US$ 24,771.11)
Subproject 8: Wild Pollinators Management of the assai palm
(Euterpe oleracea, Palmae) in Eastern Amazonia
Objective: to make a review of the Assai Palm (Euterpe
precatoria, Palmae) reproductive biology, to study and
disseminate the breeding methods and colony
multiplication of two species of Stingless bees (Melipona
fasciculata e M. flavolineata) and to evaluate the impact of
the introduction of stingless bee colonies on the increase
of fruit production.
Administration: Agriculture and Amazon Forest Development
and Research Support Foundation – FUNAGRI
administrates this subproject and has as its implementing
partner the Embrapa Center for Eastern Amazonia –
CPATU.
Agreement value: US$ 43,333.44 funded by PROBIO, with a
co-funding of US$ 31,144.82.
(This subproject has received an initial
disbursement from PROBIO of US$ 40,152.96).
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