Yields of crops must increase substantially over the coming decades to keep pace with
global food demand driven by population and income growth. Ultimately global food …

Drought limits crop productivity and threatens global food security, with moderate drought
stress—when crops grow at a reduced rate—commonly experienced. Increasing plant …

More than 200 years have passed since Thomas Malthus, author of 'An essay on the
principle of population'published in 1798, and highlighted 200 years later in Evans (1998) …

The potential impacts of climate change on crop productivity are of widespread interest to
those concerned with addressing climate change and improving global food security. Two …

Global food security requires that grain yields continue to increase to 2050, yet yields have
stalled in many developed countries. This disturbing trend has so far been only partially …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

In its broadest sense, water productivity (WP) is the net return for a unit of water used.
Improvement of water productivity aims at producing more food, income, better livelihoods …

This position paper honours agricultural scientist and colleague, Professor Bob Loomis, by
discussing the urgent global challenge of food security and the related impacts on the …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

This review focuses on recent advances in some key areas of wheat physiology, namely
phasic development, determination of potential yield and water-limited potential yield …