The assessment report on pollinators, pollination and food production: summary for policymakers

The thematic assessment of pollinators, pollination
and food production carried out under the auspices
of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services aims to assess
animal pollination as a regulating ecosystem service
underpinning food production in the context of its
contribution to nature’s gifts to people and supporting
a good quality of life. To achieve this, it focuses
on the role of native and managed pollinators, the
status and trends of pollinators and pollinator-plant
networks and pollination, drivers of change, impacts
on human well-being, food production in response to
pollination declines and deficits and the effectiveness
of responses.

The chapters and their executive summaries of this
assessment are available as document IPBES/4/INF/1/Rev.2 (www.ipbes.net). The present document
is a summary for policymakers of the information
presented in these chapters.