Pollinators are increasingly under threat from human activities and countries must transform their agricultural practices to ensure global crop production can meet demand and avoid substantial economic losses, the United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity heard today.<\/p>\n
\u201cPollinators affect all of us. The food that we eat like our fruits and vegetables, our coffee and chocolate, all rely on pollinators. However, pollinators are facing many challenges, from intensive agriculture, pesticides, climate change, which are putting a lot of pressure on them,\u201d said Professor Simon Potts of the University of Reading, who is the co-chair of a major report on pollinators<\/a> being discussed at the 13th<\/sup> meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)<\/a> in Cancun, Mexico today.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are many solutions and policies that countries can adopt to protect pollinators, so the trick here in Cancun is for countries to take these ideas and really make them work.\u201d<\/p>\n