unesp Gleiciani Bürger Patricio Roberto, Ph.D.: Pós-Doutoranda Prof. David Montenegro Lapola, Ph.D.: Supervisor Ecology and Biodiversity Post-Program UNESP, Rio Claro June 23 rd, 2015 The PES as a tool for increasing agricultural production, promoting food security and the conservation of bees in the sugarcane belt of São Paulo State, Brazil

Project context This Research OpenNESS-Cana goals… Related to the social ones Food security Steakholders – land relationship In Terms of a PES scheme

SUPPORT PROVISION Food REGULATION Pollination CULTUTAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Introduction

Fruit and seed production decreased! 90’s Several bee species desapearence of cropped areas Pollination Crisis Introduction Allen-Wardell et al. 1998

Westphal et al. (2003) Introduction

Westphal et al. (2003) Introduction

More studies are still need to better understand the bees response to all those changes However, the decline evidences are more than enough to implement conservation public politics for this group.  URGENTS!!! MAS… LAW= Brazilian Forest Code PES Introduction

* Aims: To provide an economic value to the bees pollination services in the region of Rio Claro Municipality – SP. To demonstrate, through a pollination potention model, how the PES scheme implementation can contribute with the food security in the studied region. Aims

* Métodos: Studied area; Bee assessment; Economic valuation of pollinator ES; Pollination Potential  ESTIMAP Methods

Studied area: Methods

Bee assessment; Crop 20min Methods Off crop 20min 5m Remnant 20min 5m

Economic valuation of Bee pollination services; W= Economic Value (R$); S= planted area (ha); Δq= productivity increase due to the pollination (Kg); p= cultivation exit price (R$/ha); c= harvest costs (R$/ha) W=S.∆q.(p-c) Estimap: Potential of Pollination  bee species, flight range, weather, potential nest sites. Methods What crops? Why? Hein (2009)

1 st results 1 st Results * Zucchini Crop = 100% dependent on bees

Main pollinators Trigona sp. Apis mellifera 1 st Results

S. JosuéS. AmadeuM. HelenaS. Botacin Species number 5677 Abundance Bee assessment OBS: Sweep nets data only 1 st Results

Pollination tests  ∆q 1 st Results S. JosuéS. AmadeuM. HelenaS. Botacin % FR 80%63,30%73,30%63,30% Weigh (average) 1,35 kg0,83 kg0,43 kg1,04 kg * Opened pollination * Closed pollination