Very well into the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0), humankind can
hardly distinguish between what is artificial and what is natural (eg, man‐made virus and …

Southeast Asia is a major rice-producing region with a high level of internal consumption
and accounting for 40% of global rice exports. Limited land resources, climate change and …

Summary and Statement of Need nasapower is an R (R Core Team, 2018) package
providing functionality to interface with the NASA POWER API (Stackhouse et al., 2018) for …

Numerous studies have been published during the past two decades that use simulation
models to assess crop yield gaps (quantified as the difference between potential and actual …

The phrase “biggest bang for a buck” is associated with the policy making question that
governments and development agencies face:“Where and which crops should receive …

One of the greatest challenges in monitoring food security is to provide reliable crop yield
information that is temporally consistent and spatially scalable. An ideal yield dataset would …

Accurate estimation of yield gaps is only possible for locations where high quality local data
are available, which are, however, lacking in many regions of the world. The challenge is …

Rice (Oryza spp.) is the major staple food for most countries in West Africa, but local
production does not meet demand. Rice is grown mainly by smallholder farmers, and yields …

Background Africa is the most vulnerable continent in the world; which recurrent droughts,
extreme temperature and rainfall affects agriculture and food security. The aim of this study …

Although the US southern Great Plains accounts for approximately 30% of total US wheat
(Triticum aestivum L.) production, yields in the region have rarely surpassed 3.0 Mg ha− 1 …