Intensifying rice production to reduce imports and land conversion in Africa
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR multi-centre | en |
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and developing country institute | en |
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and advanced research institute | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Huazhong Agricultural University | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Africa Rice Center | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Rice Research Institute | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Agrosystems Research | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Wageningen University & Research | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | University of Nebraska | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | National Key Research and Development Program, China | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | China Association for Science and Technology | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities in China | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Belt and Road Center for Sustainable Rice Production | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | CGIAR Trust Fund | en |
| cg.contributor.initiative | Excellence in Agronomy | |
| cg.coverage.region | Africa | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Kazuki Saito: 0000-0002-8609-2713 | en |
| cg.creator.identifier | Pepijn A.J.: 0000-0001-7617-5382 | en |
| cg.creator.identifier | Martin van Ittersum: 0000-0001-8611-6781 | en |
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | en |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44950-8 | en |
| cg.isijournal | ISI Journal | en |
| cg.issn | 2041-1723 | en |
| cg.issue | 1 | en |
| cg.journal | Nature Communications | en |
| cg.reviewStatus | Peer Review | en |
| cg.subject.actionArea | Resilient Agrifood Systems | |
| cg.subject.impactArea | Poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs | |
| cg.volume | 15 | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Yuan, Shen | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Saito, Kazuki | en |
| dc.contributor.author | van Oort, Pepijn A. J. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Ittersum, Martin K. van | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Peng, Shaobing | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Grassini, Patricio | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-07T14:18:45Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-07T14:18:45Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139044 | |
| dc.title | Intensifying rice production to reduce imports and land conversion in Africa | en |
| dcterms.abstract | Africa produces around 60% of the rice the continent consumes, relying heavily on rice imports to fulfill the rest of the domestic demand. Over the past 10 years, the rice-agricultural area increased nearly 40%, while average yield remained stagnant. Here we used a process-based crop simulation modelling approach combined with local weather, soil, and management datasets to evaluate the potential to increase rice production on existing cropland area in Africa and assess cropland expansion and rice imports by year 2050 for different scenarios of yield intensification. We find that Africa can avoid further increases in rice imports, and even reduce them, through a combination of cropland expansion following the historical trend together with closure of the current exploitable yield gap by half or more. Without substantial increase in rice yields, meeting future rice demand will require larger rice imports and/or land conversion than now. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.audience | CGIAR | en |
| dcterms.audience | Farmers | en |
| dcterms.audience | Development Practitioners | en |
| dcterms.audience | Policy Makers | en |
| dcterms.audience | Scientists | en |
| dcterms.available | 2024-01-27 | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Yuan, Shen, Kazuki Saito, Pepijn A. J. van Oort, Martin K. van Ittersum, Shaobing Peng, and Patricio Grassini. 2023. Intensifying rice production to reduce imports and land conversion in Africa. Nature Communications 15(1): 835. | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2024-01-27 | en |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| dcterms.publisher | Springer Nature | en |
| dcterms.subject | crop production | en |
| dcterms.subject | agricultural land management | en |
| dcterms.subject | farmland | en |
| dcterms.subject | rice | en |
| dcterms.subject | cultivation | en |
| dcterms.subject | yields | en |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article |
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