Insect pollinators can unlock an annual monetary value of more than US $100 million from crop production in Rwanda.

ABSTRACT: Insect pollinators provide a natural ecosystem service to more than 80% of known flowering plants, many of which are part of our diet. However, their importance in Africa and an agriculture-dependent country like Rwanda has yet to receive attention. This encumbers policy formulation and investments in insect pollinators as a strategic agronomic input. Meanwhile, Rwanda cultivates crops that can benefit significantly from insect pollinators for superior agronomic outputs. To uncover this, we characterized the dependence of the crop production subsector on insect pollinators. Using the bioeconomic approach, we assessed the total economic value and the value due to insect pollinators of crops cultivated in Rwanda. We also evaluated the crop's production value per ton and whether production wo

SUBMITTER: Yocgo REE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10654601 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature