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Annual change in the share of cropland used for pollinator dependent crops

The average annual change in the share of cropland used to grow pollinator-dependent crops between 1961 and 2016.
A crop is considered to be pollinator-dependent if animal pollination is required to increase the quantity and/or the quality of fruits or seeds directly consumed by
humans.

0No data-4%-2%-1%-0.5%0%0.5%1%2%>4%
World

Source: Aizen et al. (2019). Global agricultural productivity is threatened by increasing pollinator dependence without a parallel increase in crop diversification. Global Change Biology.