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Inspired by: corporate press » Bees be no more, less food than before

version: 3 / updated: 2011-02-08
id: #1637 / version id: #1162
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Originally submitted by: Anthony Walker
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Last changed by: Maurizio Sajeva
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submitted unpublished

Source of inspiration

Corporate Press (e.g. AFP, BBC, CNN)

The source of the Weak Signal is

BBC

Signal's headline

(max. 9 words)
Bees be no more, less food than before

Signal's description

(approx. 150 words)
Please describe the Weak Signal (approx. 150 words)
Reducing numbers of bees and other pollinating insects reaches catastrophic levels with widespread crop failure due to lack of pollination of plants. Natural herbivores affected and go into decline but other insects also in deterioration so totally disrupting the natural food web with knock-on effects for birds and other animals that feed on insects as well as plants...and onwards through the predators.

Keywords

Bees, Crop failure, Pollination, Insects, Natural food web, Food

Mini-description

(max. 250 characters)
Reducing numbers of bees and other pollinating insects reaches catastrophic levels with widespread crop failure due to lack of pollination of plants. Natural herbivores affected and go into decline but other insects also in deterioration.

Signal's first apperance

before 2000

Importance

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Level 1: important for a particular country
Level 2: important for a particular world region

Filters preventing the signal's monitoring

information/communicational filters (media/editorial interests, language, reasoning)
cultural/religious filters (values, traditions, faith, spiritual beliefs)
economic filters (business/market interests)
scientific filters (knowledge/technology access)
political filters (party or ideological interests)
social filters (class, status, education level)

Major risks & opportunities associated to the signal

Please choose the most appropriate timeframe option(s) to which you would like to provide inputs.
Risks Opportunities
beyond 2050 revolution of environmental mechanisms of life

Potential stakeholders' actions

short-term actions
(now-2015) 		longer-term
(after 2015)
Media spreading environmental concern among societies spreading environmental concern among societies

Signal's relevance for European Grand Challenges

where? please justify:
particularly relevant Europe world
Diseases, health and well-being
Food security and diet
Sustainability and climate change

Signal's relevance for thematic research areas

please justify:
particularly relevant
Health
Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology

Pan-European strategies influencing the signal

please justify:
particularly relevant
Facilitating and promoting knowledge sharing and transfer
Increasing the efficiency and impact of public research through Joint Programming (i.e. combining national and pan-European research efforts) or the optimisation of research programmes and priorities, for example.
Fostering and facilitating coherent international cooperation in science and technology

Research-friendly strategies potentially improving understanding of the signal

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please justify:
particularly relevant
Strengthening the actors in the research-friendly ecology
(i.e. Research funding organisations, universities, businesses, Research and Technology Organisations, Researchers and Citizens)
Addressing cohesion through a localised articulation between supply and demand
(e.g. making research institutions more engaged with their own context and local users; reinforcing knowledge flows into and out of regions; etc.
Creating a closer link between researchers & policy-makers
(e.g. supporting both thematic and cross-cutting policies, highlighting the strategic purpose of the European Research Area, etc.