Insect declines mean reduced yields of healthy foods like fruit and vegetables and increased disease in people
. It found that insufficient pollination was responsible for about a quarter of the difference between high and low yields.
They then used an economic model to track how these losses would affect the diets of people across the globe. Finally, they used well-known data on how reductions of fruit, vegetables, legumes and nuts affect health to estimate the number of early deaths.
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