The kiwi is a highly insect-pollinated dependent crop and is the cornerstone of the Greek agricultural sector, rendering the country as the fourth biggest kiwi producer worldwide, with an expected increase in national production the following years. This extensive transformation of the Greek arable land to Kiwi monocultures in combination with a wo...
Recent years have witnessed a substantial decline of both managed and wild bees in Europe due to the increase of pesticides use. Hence, many European agricultural systems depend on the buy/rental of managed bees in order to maintain sufficient levels of pollination services. However, this substitution of wild bees by managed ones apart from costly ...
The principal objective of the realized study is to evaluate the economic importance of the behavioral interactions which emerge from managed and wild bees, called bees’ complementarity in arable crop farms. A particular emphasis was placed on examining how the economic importance of bees’ complementarity should affect the public policy regulation ...
Le déclin annoncé des abeilles est le résultat de différents facteurs d'origines humaine et naturelle. Les politiques publiques agissent principalement sur deux facteurs humains : l'utilisation de produits phytosanitaires et l'état et l'évolution des habitats naturels. Ce chapitre est consacré à une discussion autour de ces politiques publiques. Au...
