Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation

By D. Ray, Navin Ramankutty, N. Mueller, Paul C. West, J. Foley. Nature Communications, 2012

1,477 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. G. Slafer
2. D. Miralles
3. F. G. González
4. R. Savin
5. A. Ferrante
6. R. A. Fischer
7. P. Grassini
8. David B. Lobell

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. D. Ray
2. Paolo D'Odorico
3. N. Mueller
4. P. Grassini
5. K. Cassman
6. Paul C. West
7. Frank Ewert
8. J. Foley

In Plant Science

1. G. Slafer
2. D. Miralles
3. F. G. González
4. R. A. Fischer
5. R. Savin
6. A. Ferrante
7. David B. Lobell
8. G. Atlin

Citations in the corpus

• Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition. (2017, background): “There remains substantial uncertainty about the interacting consequences of changing temperature, precipitation, and CO2 concentrations, particularly in the context of largely managementdriven yield increases that are still occurring across the majority of croplands (61, 85, 125).”
• Genetics of Tillering in Rice and Barley (2014, background): “4% per year for the major cereals (Ray et al., 2012).”
• Feeding humanity through global food trade (2014, background): “On the supply side, after the extraordinary increase in crop yields in the second half of last century (i.e., during the “green revolution”), the rates of agricultural production are expected to reach a plateau [Ray et al., 2012; Brown, 2013].”
• Yield gap analysis of rainfed wheat demonstrates local to global relevance (2016, background): “This concern arises against a backdrop of crop yield plateaus and reductions in rates of yield increase observed in recent years, despite technological improvements (Ray et al. 2012; Grassini et al. 2013).”
• Gains in Maize Genetic Improvement in Eastern and Southern Africa: I. CIMMYT Hybrid Breeding Pipeline (2017, result): “These results suggest that, although maize yields in some countries in ESA have declined or stagnated during this period (Ray et al., 2012), this was not due to a lack of genetic progress, but rather to the slow rate of dissemination of new hybrids in the region.”
• Fruiting efficiency: an alternative trait to further rise wheat yield (2015, background): “But, in the last 2 decades wheat yield grew less than the demand and in several regions showed signs of stagnation (Calderini and Slafer 1998 ; Brisson et al. 2010 ; Ray et al. 2012 ).”