The Western honey bee (Apis mellifera L., Hymenoptera: Apidae) is a species of crucial
economic, agricultural and environmental importance. In the last ten years, some regions of …

Increasing evidence—synthesized in this paper—shows that economic growth contributes to
biodiversity loss via greater resource consumption and higher emissions. Nonetheless, a …

Pollinator decline has attracted global attention and substantial efforts are underway to
respond through national pollinator strategies and action plans. These policy responses …

Floral plantings are promoted to foster ecological intensification of agriculture through
provisioning of ecosystem services. However, a comprehensive assessment of the …

Economic valuation of crop pollination services, including potential monetary losses in
agricultural production induced by insufficient pollination, is a strategy to quantify the …

Agricultural intensification is one of the main causes for the current biodiversity crisis. While
reversing habitat loss on agricultural land is challenging, increasing the farmland …

Brazil's environmental legislation obliges private properties to retain a fixed proportion of
their total area with native vegetation, the so-called “Legal Reserves”. Those areas …

Biodiversity losses can lead to global environmental crisis. Humans utilize biodiversity for a
variety of ecosystem services. However, what drives biodiversity losses have become a …

To promote food security and sustainability, ecologically intensive farming systems should
reliably produce adequate yields of high-quality food, enhance the environment, be …

Three key transitions leading to a “safe and just” operating space, with a focus on food
systems, emerged during the development of a Foresight study promoted by SCAR …