Pollination creates enormous value across the food system, improving yields, crop quality, and resilience. Yet much of the cost of maintaining that service sits with beekeepers and farmers, while its economic benefits travel through supply chains to aggregators, food companies, retailers, and consumers. So who should pay for pollination? We have built markets, registries, and compliance mechanisms around other forms of ecosystem value. Pollination, despite being tangible and closely connected to agricultural production, has little comparable financial architecture. This session moves beyond the familiar conversation about whether nature has value and into a harder question: what specific mechanisms could move money from those capturing the value of pollination to those maintaining it? The possibilities raise as many questions as answers. Could sourcing premiums make pollination part of procurement decisions? Could aggregators share costs across supply chains? Could insurance-linked products reward practices that strengthen pollinator populations? Could blended public-private funds absorb early risk and help establish new models? And crucially, which of these approaches would actually work for the farmers and beekeepers expected to deliver the outcomes? Humble Bee will ground the conversation in experience training rural and tribal women as scientific beekeepers across India, where the disconnect between who produces pollination value and who captures it is visible on the ground. But the ambition is to make this more than a “nature” conversation. What would change if companies began treating pollination as a supply-chain responsibility, something to account and pay for rather than an environmental benefit received for free? What to expect A small, focused working conversation bringing together people who could pay for pollination services and people currently absorbing their costs. Rather than presenting prepared solutions, participants will pressure-test potential mechanisms including sourcing premiums, cost-sharing, insurance-linked products, and blended finance. The goal is to argue through the practicalities in real time: who pays, how value is measured, where money flows, and what incentives would make a model viable. Ideally, the conversation will surface one or more ideas concrete enough to explore as a pilot. Who this is for This session is for sustainable sourcing leaders in food and consumer goods, agricultural economists, blended-finance and impact-investment practitioners, nature-based solutions funders, and grassroots operators working with beekeepers, farmers, and pollination-dependent livelihoods. What you will get out of it A new way to think about pollination as supply-chain infrastructure rather than a free environmental benefit Practical perspectives on who creates, captures, and could pay for the value generated by pollination An opportunity to pressure-test specific payment mechanisms with people across the value chain Insights from frontline experience with beekeeping and pollination-dependent livelihoods Potential partners and ideas for translating the conversation into a real-world pilot Hosted by Humble Bee