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2026-05-27 · percent of leading crop types

Three-quarters of crop types need pollinators

Wind-pollinated staples feed calories — fruits, nuts, and coffee need bees and friends.

Wind-pollinated staples feed calories — fruits, nuts, and coffee need bees and friends. This grid divides crop types (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Pollinator-dependent crops and Wind / self-pollinated — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.

1 cell = 0.1 percent of leading crop types (0.1% of crop types) · 1,000 cells

Three-quarters of crop types need pollinators. Wind-pollinated staples feed calories — fruits, nuts, and coffee need bees and friends.

Context

The 2026 figures from IPBES pollinators put Pollinator-dependent crops at 75% of crop types and Wind / self-pollinated at 25%.

/ IPBES: ~75% leading crop types benefit from animal pollination.

Klein et al. / IPBES: ~75% leading crop types benefit from animal pollination.

  • IPBES pollinators

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