Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050.
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"Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Do..." refers background in this paper
...Numerous authors have suggested that increasing crop yields, rather than clearing more land for food production, is the most sustainable path for food security [2,4,9–14]....
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...The world is experiencing rising demands for crop production, stemming from three key forces: increasing human population, meat and dairy consumption from growing affluence, and biofuel consumption [1–5]....
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...Numerous studies have shown that feeding a more populated and more prosperous world will roughly require a doubling of agricultural production by 2050 [1–7], translating to a ,2....
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...Many studies illustrate that intensification can be unsustainable [32–36], but several notable projects in Africa [37] and elsewhere [38] have shown that sustainable intensification is possible and necessary to boost global crop production....
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...Alternatively, additional strategies, particularly changing to more plant-based diets and reducing food waste [4,46–48] can reduce the large expected demand growth in food [3,4]....
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...5 million statistics from a newly developed crop yield and area harvested database covering ,13,500 political units globally from 1961 to 2008, focusing on trends in the recent two decades [4,23]....
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...However, opportunities do exist to increase production through more efficient use of current arable lands [4] and increasing yield growth rates by spreading best management practices and closing yield gaps under different management regimes [38–42] across the globe....
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...These four crops together produce about two-thirds of current harvested global crop calories [3,18]....
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...Alternatively, additional strategies, particularly changing to more plant-based diets and reducing food waste [4,46–48] can reduce the large expected demand growth in food [3,4]....
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...Thus, if these yield change rates do not increase, land clearing possibly would be needed [3] if global food security is to increase or even maintained (Table 1)....
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...The only peerreviewed estimate [3] suggests that crop demand may increase by 100%–110% between 2005 and 2050....
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