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Protocol to Detect and Assess Pollination Deficits in Crops: a Handbook for its Use

Pollination Services for Sustainable Agriculture, Field Manuals

Year of publication 2011

Pages 82 p.

Author Vaissière, E.B.;Freitas, B.M. ;Gemmill-Herren, B.;Plant Production and Protection Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title Pollination Services for Sustainable Agriculture

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) As a contribution to the International Pollinators Initiative, FAO and its partners have collaborated with INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, a public research body of the French government) to develop a protocol for assessing and detecting if a crop production system is suffering a pollination deficit. This document thus presents a handbook for the application of the protocol, outlining the underlying concepts, the hypothesis to be tested, and the modification and application of the protocol to a variety of circumstances in developing countries, such as small fields, home gardens, and high environmental variability.

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