Many previous studies have estimated the carrying capacity and feasible planetary
boundaries for humankind. However, less attention has been given to how we will …

Achieving SDG2 (zero hunger) in a situation of rapid global population growth requires a
continued focus on food production. Farming not merely needs to sustainably produce …

Accurate and high-resolution crop yield and crop water productivity (CWP) datasets are
required to understand and predict spatiotemporal variation in agricultural production …

Around 90% of fresh renewable water is being used in Iran, indicating high water stress
conditions across the country. Given that agricultural irrigation accounts for the majority of …

To evaluate the environmental sustainability of blue water use or the blue water footprint
(WF) of a product, organisation, geographical entity or a diet, two well-established indicators …

Irrigation enhances agricultural yields and stabilizes farmer incomes, but overexploitation
has depleted groundwater resources around the globe. Strategies to address this …

A growing urban population and dietary changes increased wheat import bills in Africa to
9% per year. Though wheat production in the continent has been increasing over the past …

Smallholder agriculture is critical for current and future food security, yet quantifying the
sources of smallholder yield variance remains a major challenge. Attributing yield variance …

A large database of individual farmer field data (n= 4,107) for rice production in the
Northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains of India was used to decompose rice yield gaps and to …

In the next decades, the population is expected to rise by more than two billion people, and
the projections of climate change have been considered as one of the greatest future …