5. Conclusion

To understand the impact of pollinator decline on agriculture production in developing countries, empirical assessment of potential economic losses due to this decline is critical. As well, to support maintaining the pollination service in agriculture, there is a need to better understand the economic value generated by the pollination service. We estimated the economic value of pollination, and the potential relative production and agricultural sector value loss attributable to lack or disappearance of pollinators using bio-economic approach. We use the Ethiopian Annual Agricultural Sample Surveys (AgSS) data collected by Central Statistical Agency (CSA) for the period of 2003–2013. Result indicated that the potential production value loss attributable due to lack or decline of pollinators is nearly 8.4% and the potential agricultural sector production value loss attributable due to lack or decline of pollinators is about 4.2%. In this chapter, we have shown that spatial analyses of pollination values and vulnerabilities due to a decline in population of pollinators provide information that is useful for the selection of the most appropriate pollinator management strategies at different institutional and ecological scales. Therefore, spatially explicit analysis of these indicators is also important to support policies related to protection of abundant pollination sites for maintaining pollination services at different scales.
