Adopting yield-improving practices to meet maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa without cropland expansion
Maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase 2.3 times during the next 30 years driven by demographic and dietary changes. Over the past two decades, the area cropped with maize has expanded by 17 million hectares in the region, with limited yield increase. Following this trend could p...
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| author | Aramburu Merlos, Fernando Tenorio, Fátima Mashingaidze, Nester Sananka, Alex Aston, Stephen Ojeda, Jonathan Grassini, Patricio |
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| description | Maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase 2.3 times during the next 30 years driven by demographic and dietary changes. Over the past two decades, the area cropped with maize has expanded by 17 million hectares in the region, with limited yield increase. Following this trend could potentially result in further maize cropland expansion and the need for imports to satisfy domestic demand. Here, we use data collected from 14,773 smallholder fields in the region to identify agronomic practices that can improve farm yield gains. We find that agronomic practices related to cultivar selection, and nutrient, pest, and crop management can double on-farm yields and provide an additional 82 million tons of maize within current cropped area. Research and development investments should be oriented towards agricultural practices with proven capacity to raise maize yields in the region. |
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| spelling | INTA179762024-05-31T10:27:13Z Adopting yield-improving practices to meet maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa without cropland expansion Aramburu Merlos, Fernando Tenorio, Fátima Mashingaidze, Nester Sananka, Alex Aston, Stephen Ojeda, Jonathan Grassini, Patricio Agroecología Maíz Prácticas Agrícolas África Agroecology Maize Agricultural Practices Maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase 2.3 times during the next 30 years driven by demographic and dietary changes. Over the past two decades, the area cropped with maize has expanded by 17 million hectares in the region, with limited yield increase. Following this trend could potentially result in further maize cropland expansion and the need for imports to satisfy domestic demand. Here, we use data collected from 14,773 smallholder fields in the region to identify agronomic practices that can improve farm yield gains. We find that agronomic practices related to cultivar selection, and nutrient, pest, and crop management can double on-farm yields and provide an additional 82 million tons of maize within current cropped area. Research and development investments should be oriented towards agricultural practices with proven capacity to raise maize yields in the region. EEA Balcarce Fil: Aramburu Merlos, Fernando. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Department of Agronomy and Horticulture; Estados Unidos Fil: Aramburu Merlos, Fernando. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce. Instituto de Innovación para la Producción Agropecuaria y el Desarrollo Sostenible; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Innovación para la Producción Agropecuaria y el Desarrollo Sostenible; Argentina Fil: Tenorio, Fátima. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Department of Agronomy and Horticulture; Estados Unidos Fil: Mashingaidze, Nester. One Acre Fund; Kenia Fil: Sananka, Alex. One Acre Fund; Kenia Fil: Aston, Stephen. One Acre Fund; Kenia Fil: Ojeda, Jonathan. Regrow Ag; Australia Fil: Grassini, Patricio. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Department of Agronomy and Horticulture; Estados Unidos 2024-05-31T10:23:18Z 2024-05-31T10:23:18Z 2024-05-27 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/17976 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48859-0 2041-1723 (online) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48859-0 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Nature Publishing Group Nature Communications 15 : 4492 (May 2024) |
| spellingShingle | Agroecología Maíz Prácticas Agrícolas África Agroecology Maize Agricultural Practices Aramburu Merlos, Fernando Tenorio, Fátima Mashingaidze, Nester Sananka, Alex Aston, Stephen Ojeda, Jonathan Grassini, Patricio Adopting yield-improving practices to meet maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa without cropland expansion |
| title | Adopting yield-improving practices to meet maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa without cropland expansion |
| title_full | Adopting yield-improving practices to meet maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa without cropland expansion |
| title_fullStr | Adopting yield-improving practices to meet maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa without cropland expansion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adopting yield-improving practices to meet maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa without cropland expansion |
| title_short | Adopting yield-improving practices to meet maize demand in Sub-Saharan Africa without cropland expansion |
| title_sort | adopting yield improving practices to meet maize demand in sub saharan africa without cropland expansion |
| topic | Agroecología Maíz Prácticas Agrícolas África Agroecology Maize Agricultural Practices |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/17976 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48859-0 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48859-0 |
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