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Under current climatic conditions, total global crop production could increase by 28%, from 4 200 to 5 400 mio. t DM, if multiple cropping is expanded on existing cropland.
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e1“Total global crop production could increase by 28% (from 4 200 mio. t DM to 5 400 mio. t DM)”
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Felicitas D Beier; Jens Heinke; Benjamin Leon Bodirsky; et al. Environmental Research Letters 2026. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ae44ae
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation There is considerable global biophysical potential to expand multiple cropping on existing cropland, particularly when irrigation is also expanded.
- Observation The gain in production stems partly from nearly quadrupling the area under rainfed multiple cropping.
- Observation The gain in production stems partly from more than doubling multiple cropping area within already irrigated lands.
- Association Local irrigation water availability constrains the irrigation-enabled multiple cropping potential.