Can sub-Saharan Africa feed itself?

By M. V. van Ittersum, L. V. van Bussel, J. Wolf, P. Grassini, Justin van Wart, N. Guilpart, L. Claessens, Hugo de Groot, K. Wiebe, D. Mason-D’Croz and 16 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016

826 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Food Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Closing the yield gap while ensuring water sustainability (2018, background): “Africa, currently only sparsely irrigated (Burney et al 2013), currently produces enough calories to feed 400 million people—making it the continent with the largest gap between crop production and demand (van Ittersum et al 2016).”
• Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts (2019, background): “Because of their reliance on trade, the populations of some of these countries often exceed their ability to feed themselves with their limited agricultural resources (D’Odorico et al 2010b, Van Ittersum et al 2016).”
• Change in terrestrial human footprint drives continued loss of intact ecosystems (2020, background): “Parts of Africa also have the largest gap between food consumption and production in the world, we can therefore only infer that increasing agricultural production is a key driver of savannah and grassland loss.(58,59) In addition, remote African forests, such as the Congo Basin, are increasingly im”
• Measurement Error Mechanisms Matter: Agricultural Intensification with Farmer Misperceptions and Misreporting (2019, neutral): “Rising population densities and low levels of agricultural productivity, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), have brought renewed attention to agricultural productivity in poor countries (Gollin, Lagokos and Waugh, 2013; Adamopoulos and Restuccia, 2014; Van Ittersum et al., 2016), to agricultura”