World Bee Day

On 20 May, World Bee Day, one number deserves attention: three quarters of the world's leading food crops depend on pollinators. Not a slogan, but the quiet foundation of European food security.

Bees and other pollinators face mounting pressure from habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change. Their decline is not only a biodiversity question. It is a question of viability for the agricultural systems we are building.

The BIOFAIRNET project works across two sectors that face this dependency directly, agriculture and mining. The question is not only how to protect pollinators. It is how to reintegrate their logic, that of a discreet but structural ecosystem service, into the very design of the bio-circular agricultural systems being tested in Greece, Reunion Island, Canada, and Kenya. A bio-circular economy that ignores its pollinators is an economy preparing its own supply rupture.

At ECO Imagination, we work to disseminate these findings and engage scientific, agricultural, and industrial communities around the challenges of the circular bioeconomy. The solutions are being developed, and getting them to the right people is exactly what we do.