Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops

The monitoring and prediction of climate-induced variations in crop yields, production and export prices in major food-producing regions have become important to enable national governments in import-dependent countries to ensure supplies of affordable food for consumers. Although the El Niño/Southe...

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Autores principales: Iizumi T, Luo J, Challinor, Andrew J., Sakurai G, Yokozawa M, Sakuma H, Brown, M.E., Yamagata T
Formato: Journal Article
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Publicado: Springer 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/65650
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author Iizumi T
Luo J
Challinor, Andrew J.
Sakurai G
Yokozawa M
Sakuma H
Brown, M.E.
Yamagata T
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Challinor, Andrew J.
Iizumi T
Luo J
Sakuma H
Sakurai G
Yamagata T
Yokozawa M
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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description The monitoring and prediction of climate-induced variations in crop yields, production and export prices in major food-producing regions have become important to enable national governments in import-dependent countries to ensure supplies of affordable food for consumers. Although the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) often affects seasonal temperature and precipitation, and thus crop yields in many regions, the overall impacts of ENSO on global yields are uncertain. Here we present a global map of the impacts of ENSO on the yields of major crops and quantify its impacts on their global-mean yield anomalies. Results show that El Niño likely improves the global-mean soybean yield by 2.1—5.4% but appears to change the yields of maize, rice and wheat by −4.3 to +0.8%. The global-mean yields of all four crops during La Niña years tend to be below normal (−4.5 to 0.0%). Our findings highlight the importance of ENSO to global crop production.
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spelling CGSpace656502024-11-15T08:53:06Z Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops Iizumi T Luo J Challinor, Andrew J. Sakurai G Yokozawa M Sakuma H Brown, M.E. Yamagata T climate change food security agriculture crop yield The monitoring and prediction of climate-induced variations in crop yields, production and export prices in major food-producing regions have become important to enable national governments in import-dependent countries to ensure supplies of affordable food for consumers. Although the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) often affects seasonal temperature and precipitation, and thus crop yields in many regions, the overall impacts of ENSO on global yields are uncertain. Here we present a global map of the impacts of ENSO on the yields of major crops and quantify its impacts on their global-mean yield anomalies. Results show that El Niño likely improves the global-mean soybean yield by 2.1—5.4% but appears to change the yields of maize, rice and wheat by −4.3 to +0.8%. The global-mean yields of all four crops during La Niña years tend to be below normal (−4.5 to 0.0%). Our findings highlight the importance of ENSO to global crop production. 2014 2015-05-04T15:07:24Z 2015-05-04T15:07:24Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/65650 en Open Access Springer Iizumi T, Luo J, Challinor AJ, Sakurai G, Yokozawa M, Sakuma H, Brown ME, Yamagata T. 2014. Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops. Nature Communications 5:3712.
spellingShingle climate change
food security
agriculture
crop yield
Iizumi T
Luo J
Challinor, Andrew J.
Sakurai G
Yokozawa M
Sakuma H
Brown, M.E.
Yamagata T
Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops
title Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops
title_full Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops
title_fullStr Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops
title_full_unstemmed Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops
title_short Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops
title_sort impacts of el nino southern oscillation on the global yields of major crops
topic climate change
food security
agriculture
crop yield
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/65650
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