Sentences with phrase «literature on crop yield»

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There have been many studies on this subject and the scientific literature generally agrees that increased CO2 levels will lead to higher crop yields worldwide.

Comment (2 - 13): The Southeastern Legal Foundation provides the following reaction to the African rain - fed agriculture projection, which appeared in the Sunday Times (Leake, 2010a) and comes from former IPCC chair Robert Watson: «Any such projection [pertaining to African crop yields] should be based on peer - reviewed literature from computer modeling of how agricultural yields would respond to climate change.

Southeastern Legal Foundation concludes: «The African Crop Yields claim stands as another example of the IPCC making a claim of imminent disaster that inappropriately relied on non-peer-reviewed literature...»

Now a team from Germany has analysed the literature on drivers of this yield variability with a view to improving crop models.