What has driven the growth in global agricultural production?
Global agricultural growth is measured by the average annual change in economic output from agriculture. This is broken down by its drivers in each decade.Productivity growth measures increase output from a given amount of input: it's driven by factors such as efficiency gains, better seed varieties, land reforms,and better management practices.
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- Almond yields
- Area of land needed to meet global vegetable oil demand
- Area of land needed to produce one tonne of vegetable oil
- Banana yields
- Barley yields
- Bean yields
- Cashew nut yields
- Cassava yields
- Cereal yield vs. GDP per capita
- Cereal yield vs. extreme poverty rate
- Cereal yield vs. fertilizer use
- Cereal yields
- Change in cereal production, yield, land use and population
- Change in production, yield and land use of oil palm fruit
- Change of cereal yield and land used for cereal production
- Cocoa bean yields
- Coffee bean yields
- Corn yields
- Corn: Attainable crop yields
- Corn: Yield gap
- Cotton yields
- Crop yields
- Groundnut yields
- How much cropland has the world spared due to increases in crop yields?
- Land use vs. yield change in cereal production
- Lettuce yields
- Long-run cereal yields in the United Kingdom
- Millet yields
- Oil palm fruit yields
- Oil yields by crop type
- Orange yields
- Pea yields
- Potato yields
- Rapeseed yields
- Rice yields
- Rye yields
- Sorghum yields
- Soybean yields
- Sugar beet yields
- Sugar cane yields
- Sunflower seed yields
- Tomato yields
- Wheat yields
- Which countries have managed to decouple agricultural output from more inputs?
- Which countries overapplied nitrogen without gains in crop yields?
- Yields of important staple crops
- Yields of key staple crops