Review of yield gap explaining factors and opportunities for alternative data collection approaches
Objective of research is to assess data availability and collection approaches for yield gap analysis
Abstract
Explaining yield gaps requires detailed information about the biophysical environment, crop management as well as farm characteristics and socio-economic conditions in which farmers operate. However, these types of data are not always available, mostly because they are costly to collect. The main objective of this research is to assess data availability and data collection approaches for yield gap analysis, and to summarize the yield gap explaining factors identified by previous studies.
This is an output from the ‘Integrated assessment of the determinants of the maize yield gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: towards farm innovation and enabling policies’ project led by the University of Wageningen
Citation
Eskender Beza , João Vasco Silva, Lammert Kooistra, Pytrik Reidsma. Review of yield gap explaining factors and opportunities for alternative data collection approaches. European Journal of Agronomy, Volume 82, Part B, 2017, Pages 206-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2016.06.016.
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