Insufficient numbers of bees and other pollinators can have large impacts on human health as fruit and vegetable yields decline, a modeling study suggests
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December 21, 2022
Many important crops depend on bees for pollination Daniel Olbrich/Moment RF/Getty Images
Pollination of crops poses risks to human health equivalent to outstanding health conditions, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
Three-quarters of crop varieties are pollinated by animals such as insects, birds and bats.Many key pollinator populations like bee is falling, and Their loss leads to lower fruit and vegetable yields.
Matthew Smith At Harvard University and colleagues used data on pollinators, 63 pollinator-dependent crops, international trade, diet and chronic disease to…
