This $1,791,864 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to understand how landscape configuration and collective action institutions shape pollinator supply and management in smallholder apple farming communities in Uttarakhand, India and New York, USA.
The primary objectives are to advance theories of institutional formation based on spatial factors influencing collective action, and to develop more climate-resilient socio-environmental systems supporting farmers and pollinators. Key activities include field research, stakeholder engagement, pollinator monitoring, and agent-based modeling. Sub-awards support the participation of co-investigators from the Centre for Ecology Development and Research in India and George Washington University and Boise State University in the United States. The project aims to provide insights into how spatial, social, and environmental conditions enable the emergence of natural resource governance institutions for managing pollination services as a common pool resource.
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