首页    期刊浏览 2024年11月30日 星期六
登录注册

文章基本信息

  • 标题:Value of Pollination Services in Farmlands Adjacent to Mau, Cherangany and Mt. Elgon Forests
  • 本地全文:下载
  • 作者:Jonah Kiprop ; David Langat ; Joshua Cheboiwo
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Natural Sciences Research
  • 印刷版ISSN:2225-0921
  • 电子版ISSN:2225-0921
  • 出版年度:2019
  • 卷号:9
  • 期号:10
  • 页码:65-70
  • DOI:10.7176/JNSR/9-10-08
  • 出版社:The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)
  • 摘要:Pollination plays a vital role in crop yield and quality and by extension food security. Approximately 75% of global food crops depend on pollination services. Forests are the primary habitats of natural pollinators and communities farming near them benefit from this valuable supporting service. This study estimated the economic value of crop pollination dependency on natural forests within Mau, Cherangany and Mount Elgon Water Towers using the Pollination Value Array Tool developed by Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). To determine the value of crop pollination on farmlands adjacent to the forests, a buffer zone of 5 km between the forest and the farms was developed using GIS. Using the developed maps, a list of pollination dependent crops grown within these zones was identified from the FAO tool. Crop production data were obtained from Ministry of Agriculture in all the Counties neighboring the three ecosystems. The crop data gathered include the quantity of crop harvested per season and the producer price in Ksh per metric ton. This data was entered into the Pollination value array tool which computes; the Total Economic Value of crop (TVC) and the Economic Value of Insect Pollinators (EVIP) using the Pollination Dependency Ratios (PDR) of the crops. The contributions of natural /insect pollinators to crop production in the Mau, Cherangany and Mt. Elgon were estimated at Ksh 314 million (12.7%), 67 million (9.7%) and 549 million (17.4%) respectively. The total economic value attributed to insect pollination in the three ecosystems amounted to Ksh 931million in 2015.
  • 关键词:Pollination Services; Crop Production; Pollination Dependence Ratio; Economic Value; Food security
国家哲学社会科学文献中心版权所有