Sentences with phrase «global yield gap»

Hence, the target of the Global Yield Gap Atlas (GYGA) is to provide best available estimates of the exploitable yield gap (Yg - E)-- difference between current average farm yields and 80 % of Yp and Yw.

Related I also recently found a useful resource for anyone looking to focus research on places in the world where the gap between current crop yields and potential yields is greatest: The Global Yield Gap Atlas.

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Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields.

This technical document presents the latest estimates of the emissions gap in 2020 and provides plentiful information, including about current (2010) and projected (2020) levels of global greenhouse gas emissions, both in the absence of additional policies and consistent with national pledge implementation; the implications of starting decided emission reductions now or in the coming decades; agricultural development policies that can help increase yields, reduce fertilizer usage and bring about other benefits, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; and, international cooperative initiatives that, while potentially overlapping with pledges, can complement them and help bridge the emissions gap.