Table 1 Percentage of harvested area with growth in attainable yield and average annual percentage growth in attainable yields

From: Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation

 

Percentage of harvested area with significant growth in attainable yield

Average annual percentage growth in attainable yield

Entire period

First and last decades

Entire period

First and last decades

1975–2010

1975–1985

2000–2010

1975–2010

1975–1985

1975–2010

Barley

69%

43%

1%

0.8%

1.3%

0.7%a

Cassava

85%

0%

75%

0.8%

0.1%a

3.4%

Maize

100%

88%

97%

1.4%

1.4%

1.5%

Oil palm

7%

0%

1%

1.3%

1.6%a

0.3%a

Rapeseed

99%

86%

1%

1.6%

2.2%

2.1%

Rice

100%

94%

65%

1.2%

1.8%

0.7%

Sorghum

94%

53%

0%

0.1%a

0.5%a

0.3%

Soybean

100%

89%

86%

1.1%

1.1%

1.0%

Sugar cane

56%

6%

0%

0.4%

0.6%a

−0.2%a

Wheat

98%

78%

4%

1.3%

1.8%

0.7%a

  1. Areas for which attainable yields increase over the indicated period with 95% confidence intervals (first three numerical columns) and average annual per-year linear growth in globally averaged attainable yield (last three numerical columns). Statistical analysis was carried out independently for the full interval as well as the first and last decades. Calculations of area and attainable yield growth are relative to 2000 for the 1975–2010 and 2000–2010 intervals, and relative to 1975 for the 1975–1985 interval. Confidence intervals and regional results are shown in Supplementary Table 11. Results with fixed-area counterfactuals are shown in Supplementary Table 3.
  2. aNot significant (95% confidence intervals encompass zero).