“Taking all this into account, studies suggest that **crop production would decline** by around 5% in higher income countries and 8% in low to middle incomes **if pollinator insects vanished**. ([Location 3319](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=3319))”
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**Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[food-production]], [[farming]], [[systems-thinking]], [[agrarian-economies]]
**Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]