VALues and dependence of society on pollinatORs

VALOR will establish a world leading system to evaluate and explore the impacts of pollinators on local societies and economies. The project team will take a full systems based approach and world leading research methods to explore the local landscape, farm business, societal, policy, nutrition and value chain dependences on pollinators in six case study regions. VALOR embeds policy, practice and business in its core research focus, working directly with stakeholders to develop believable scenarios and accessible tools that will not only facilitate the incorporation of pollinators into decision making at multiple scales, but will allow future efforts by research and private sector actors to easily replicate our approach. Our outcomes will be disseminated through European partners and hosted on our existing knowledge hubs, ensuring impact beyond the end of the project. The Horizon Europe project VALOR is led by the University of Reading, the Institute of Agricultural and Forest Economics leads WP 4 ‘Local scale economic and social dependences’.