crop-yield model

crop yield [ agricultural yield | yield per hectare ]

optimization model [ optimizing model ]

FAO Expert Consultation on Production Statistics of Subsistence Food Crops in Africa

irrigated yield

grain crop productivity

crop yield index

The JRC provides robust, evidence-based support for EU policies driven by customer needs (e.g. energy efficiency, transport safety and crop yield forecasting).

GMES addresses the (potentially common) needs of public authorities in various policy areas, as, for example, in the case of information on land cover, which will contribute to prediction and management of floods, forest fires and crop yields, as well as monitoring of carbon sinks and sources in the framework of the Kyoto protocol.

In recent years, the agricultural sector in the Mediterranean has been suffering from severe water shortages and decreasing crop yields.

Emphasises that the production of biofuels should not interfere with food production or compromise food security; believes, however, that balanced policies to promote increased European yields in feedstock crops such as wheat, maize, sugar beet and sunflowers could include provision for biofuel production, taking account of ILUC, in a way which could provide Europe’s farmers with a secure income stream, attract investment and jobs into rural areas, help address Europe’s chronic shortage of (GM-free) high-protein animal feed, make Europe less dependent on fossil fuel imports; believes that in cases of market oversupp ...[+++]ly of the agricultural products referred to, the production of biofuels and bioethanol would represent a temporary outlet which would maintain sustainable purchase prices, safeguard farmers’ incomes during crises, and serve as a market stability mechanism; stresses the need to encourage the integration of uncultivated arable land which is not being used to produce food into the production of bioenergy, with a view to meeting national and European renewable energy objectives.