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Project

Benefitting Ecosystems through Evaluation of food Supplies for Pollination to Open up Knowledge for End users

Acronym
BEESPOKE
Code
41M01219
Duration
01 July 2019 → 30 June 2023
Funding
European funding: various
Promotor
Other information
Research disciplines
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Agricultural plant protection
Keywords
Pollination
 
Project description
 

The BEESPOKE overall objective is to increase the number of pollinators and crop pollination on local and landscape scale by providing new expertise, tools and financial knowledge to land managers and policy makers, in order to create more sustainable and resilient agro-ecosystems.
 
Role of Ghent University
 The BEESPOKE project is a unique opportunity to validate models calculating pollination services. By the use of spatially-explicit models and land use/land cover maps UGent predicts pollination services in orchards. UGent teams up with the Flemish Land agency (VLM), to provide them a science-based advice tool. For the region of Flanders the goal is to predict the influence of landscape changes on the pollination services on the (small) local scale. On the broader scale pollination estimates will be made based on the data delivered by the project partners.