Food systems for human and planetary health: Economic perspectives and challenges

S Fan, D Headey, C Rue… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Food systems are currently facing unprecedented challenges. More than 690 million people
still suffer hunger while climate change, rapid depletion of natural resources, and loss of …

Oil palm and machine learning: Reviewing one decade of ideas, innovations, applications, and gaps

N Khan, MA Kamaruddin, UU Sheikh, Y Yusup… - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Machine learning (ML) offers new technologies in the precision agriculture domain with its
intelligent algorithms and strong computation. Oil palm is one of the rich crops that is also …

Unravelling the variability and causes of smallholder maize yield gaps in Ethiopia

BT Assefa, J Chamberlin, P Reidsma, JV Silva… - Food Security, 2020 - Springer
Ethiopia has achieved the second highest maize yield in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, farmers'
maize yields are still much lower than on-farm and on-station trial yields, and only ca. 20% of …

Integrating agri-environmental indicators, ecosystem services assessment, life cycle assessment and yield gap analysis to assess the environmental sustainability of …

JE Bergez, A Bethinger, C Bockstaller, C Cederberg… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Agriculture's primary function is the production of food, feed, fibre and fuel for the fast-
growing world population. However, it also affects human health and ecosystem integrity …

Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation

JS Gerber, DK Ray, D Makowski, EE Butler, ND Mueller… - Nature Food, 2024 - nature.com
Yield gaps, here defined as the difference between actual and attainable yields, provide a
framework for assessing opportunities to increase agricultural productivity. Previous global …

Decomposing rice yield gaps into efficiency, resource and technology yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa

ER Dossou-Yovo, E Vandamme, I Dieng… - Field Crops …, 2020 - Elsevier
Meeting current rice demand in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) requires narrowing yield gaps on
currently available agricultural land. The objectives of this study were to decompose rice …

Is organic agriculture in line with the EU-Nitrate directive? On-farm nitrate leaching from organic and conventional arable crop rotations

L Biernat, F Taube, I Vogeler, T Reinsch, C Kluß… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sustainable intensive agriculture requires enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and reductions
in nitrogen (N) leaching losses. To investigate if organic farming systems have potential to …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing the maize yield gap in Ethiopia: Decomposition and policy simulation

M Van Dijk, T Morley, M van Loon, P Reidsma… - Agricultural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Maize is an important staple crop in Ethiopia. Reducing the yield gap-the difference between
actual and (water-limited) potential yield-has wide implications for food security and policy …

Narrowing maize yield gaps across smallholder farming systems in Zambia: what interventions, where, and for whom?

JV Silva, F Baudron, H Ngoma, I Nyagumbo… - Agronomy for …, 2023 - Springer
Maize production in Zambia must increase with a view towards improved food security and
reduced food imports whilst avoiding cropland expansion. To achieve this, it is important to …

Yield gap analysis of major food crops in Pakistan: prospects for food security

I Khan, H Lei, A Khan, I Muhammad, T Javeed… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
The concept of yield gap analysis can be used to meet the growing demands for agricultural
products. Sustainable development goals (eg SDG1 and SDG2) to end poverty and hunger …