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Overview Pollinator Biodiversity & Services

Pollination is critical to sustaining human nutrition and agricultural livelihoods. Studies show a decline in pollinator biodiversity in regions such as North America and Europe where long-term studies are available. In Africa, the conservation sector lacks the baseline data, effective monitoring methods, information services, and evidence of pollinator status and value to influence policy or contribute to global assessments. Currently, the main end-user of pollinator information is the agriculture sector, which must manage pollination to increase productivity and reduce reliance on chemicals.

Our goal for the Pollinator Biodiversity Program is to increase the accessibility and quality of pollinator biodiversity data through a long-term investment in collecting baseline data, developing technologies and methods to do so, and creating data sharing platforms relevant at regional and local levels.

  • Our grantmaking initiatives aim to meet needs in Africa to establish pollinator biodiversity baselines, assessment tools, and data sharing platforms.
  • We seek to increase the ability of the agriculture sector to use biodiversity data collection and assessment tools to make the case for pollinator management and improved practices.

Recent Pollinator News and Stories

New JRS grants strive to bring African pollinator data to the agriculture sector

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release CONTACT: Don S. Doering, Executive Director at info@jrsbiodiversity.org, (206) 454-7915. SEATTLE, Washington – October 8, 2019 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announces grant awards totaling nearly $595,000 in support of JRS’ Pollinator Biodiversity and Services…

Workshop Participants Dive into Dipterology

In November 2017, partners of the JRS Biodiversity Project “PINDIP” held a two-week training course in dipterology (the study of the two-winged or "true flies" for you non-dipterologists). The course provided researchers with a basic training on the identification and ecology…

New JRS Grant Will Help Illuminate Pollinator-Plant Interactions in Sub-Saharan Africa

SEATTLE, Washington – January 24, 2018 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is proud to announce a new $324,000 award to the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) to develop an African Pollinator Plant Interaction (APPI) database, a public platform containing pollinator-plant interaction records.   Pollinator biodiversity loss is occurring worldwide, predominately due to the…

Pollinator Grants

Project Title

Grantee

Amount / Months

Year

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
$324,040 / 36 months
2018
College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka
$284,400 / 36 months
2017
Royal Museum for Central Africa
$209,000 / 36 Months
2016
National Museums of Kenya
$264,200 / 36 Months
2016
Institute of Ecology at National Autonomous University of Mexico
$162,500 / 30 Months
2014
Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute
$ 275,000 / 36 Months
2018
Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology
$ 240,000.00 / 36 Months
2019

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