Brazilian yield-gap atlas: assessing the potential for sustainable intensification of Brazilian agriculture

• Grant number: 17/20925-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2018
• End date: May 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Agricultural Meteorology
• Principal Investigator: Fabio Ricardo Marin
• Grantee: Fabio Ricardo Marin
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Alencar Junior Zanon ; Alexandre Bryan Heinemann ; Felipe Gustavo Pilau ; Luís Gustavo Barioni ; Murilo dos Santos Vianna ; Nereu Augusto Streck ; Patricia Menezes Santos ; Patricio Grassini
• Associated research grant(s): 17/50445-0 - Brazilian yield-gap atlas: assessing the potential for sustainable intensification of Brazilian agriculture, AP.R SPRINT

Abstract

Global population will increase by 30% up to 2050. At the same time, consumption of livestock and dairy products will increase as a result of higher income per capita, and this will lead to a 50-70% increase in food demand. Brazil has a comparative advantage to help meet global food demand due to plentiful land and water resources. However, the rate of increase in average farmer yields has been slow and average yields have remained well below highest yields reported by progressive farmers and those measured in research stations. Yield gap (defined as the yield of an adapted crop cultivar when grown without water and nutrient limitations and kept free of diseases, weeds and insect pests) analysis provides a robust quantitative framework to quantify the gap and identify their causes and suggest the required interventions to close them. The overall objective of the proposal is to quantify how much extra food Brazil can produce on existing cropland area and identify pathways to realize this potential through sustainable crop intensification. The project will have full national coverage and include major crops (soybean, maize, rice, livestock, and sugarcane). Such project will require collaboration among scientists from different institutions to achieve full geographic coverage and have the range of expertise needed to achieve the proposed goals. Despite the project will be led by ESALQ/USP, the proposal will benefit from strategically selected collaborators from other national and international institutions, as other three institutions (EMBRAPA, University of Santa Maria (UFSM), University of Nebraska-Lincoln) will jointly execute the research activities in experimental sites located in the main producing areas for each crop. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ALEXANDRE ORTEGA GONÇALVES; EVANDRO HENRIQUE FIGUEIREDO MOURA DA SILVA; LETÍCIA GONÇALVES GASPAROTTO; JULIANO MANTELATTO ROSA; STEPHANIE DO CARMO; IZAEL MARTINS FATTORI JÚNIOR; FABIO RICARDO MARIN. Melhoria das medições indiretas do índice de área foliar com uso da altura do dossel. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, v. 55, 2020-12-07. (17/20925-0, 17/50445-0)

CARLOS ANDRE ALVES DE SOUZA; THIERES GEORGE FREIRE DA SILVA; LUCIANA SANDRA BASTOS DE SOUZA; MAGNA SOELMA BESERRA DE MOURA; PAULO PEDRO SILVA; FÁBIO RICARDO MARIN. Straw management effects on sugarcane growth, nutrient cycling and water use in the Brazilian semiarid region. Bragantia, v. 79, n. 4, p. 525-533, 2020-10-19. (17/50445-0, 17/20925-0)

MARIN, FABIO R.; EDREIRA, JUAN IGNACIO RATTALINO; ANDRADE, JOSE; GRASSINI, PATRICIO. On-farm sugarcane yield and yield components as influenced by number of harvests. FIELD CROPS RESEARCH, v. 240, p. 134-142, JUL 1 2019. (17/20925-0, 17/50445-0)

GASPAROTTO, LETICIA G.; ROSA, JULIANO M.; MARIN, FABIO R.. Interrow spacing and sugarcane yield in a diversity of climates: A major review. AGRONOMY JOURNAL, v. 112, n. 6, p. 4550-4557, NOV-DEC 2020. (17/20925-0, 17/50445-0, 18/06396-7)

GONCALVES, ALEXANDRE ORTEGA; FIGUEIREDO MOURA DA SILVA, EVANDRO HENRIQUE; GASPAROTTO, LETICIA GONCALVES; ROSA, JULIANO MANTELATTO; CARMO, STEPHANIE; FATTORI JUNIOR, IZAEL MARTINS; MARIN, FABIO RICARDO. Improving indirect measurements of the lea area index using canopy height. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, v. 55, 2020. (17/20925-0, 17/50445-0)

FELIPE AUGUSTO ANDRADE SOARES; FÁBIO RICARDO MARIN. Crop-specific technology extrapolation domains for Brazil. Bragantia, v. 80, 2021-01-15. (14/12406-4, 17/20925-0)

GASPAROTTO, LETICIA G.; ROSA, JULIANO M.; GRASSINI, PATRICIO; MARIN, FABIO R.. Developing an operational framework to diagnose yield gaps in commercial sugarcane mills. FIELD CROPS RESEARCH, v. 278, p. 9-pg., 2022-03-15. (17/50445-0, 21/00720-0, 18/06396-7, 17/20925-0)

IVO Z. GONÇALVES; LEANDRO G. DA COSTA; FÁBIO R. MARIN. Simulando a resposta da produtividade da cana-de-açúcar a reposições da ETc e quantidade da palhada no Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, v. 26, n. 8, p. 586-593, 2022-07-25. (21/00720-0, 13/16511-4, 17/20925-0, 14/12406-4, 20/08365-1, 14/19410-7)

MARIN, FABIO R.; ZANON, ALENCAR J.; MONZON, JUAN P.; ANDRADE, JOSE F.; SILVA, EVANDRO H. F. M.; RICHTER, GEAN L.; ANTOLIN, LUIS A. S.; RIBEIRO, BRUNA S. M. R.; RIBAS, GIOVANA G.; BATTISTI, RAFAEL; et al. Protecting the Amazon forest and reducing global warming via agricultural intensification. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY, v. 5, n. 12, p. 14-pg., 2022-10-10. (17/50445-0, 21/00720-0, 18/06396-7, 17/20925-0)

DA SILVA, EVANDRO H. F. M.; GONCALVES, ALEXANDRE O.; PEREIRA, RODOLFO A.; FATTORI JUNIOR, IZAEL M.; SOBENKO, LUIZ R.; MARIN, FABIO R.. Soybean irrigation requirements and canopy-atmosphere coupling in Southern Brazil. Agricultural Water Management, v. 218, p. 1-7, JUN 1 2019. (17/20925-0, 17/23468-9, 15/25702-3)

SOBENKO, LUIZ R.; SOUZA, TAMIRES T.; GONCALVES, ALEXANDRE O.; BIANCHINI, VITOR J. M.; SILVA, EVANDRO H. E. M.; SOUZA, LAIS T.; MARIN, FABIO R.. IRRIGATION REQUIREMENTS ARE LOWER THAN THOSE USUALLY PRESCRIBED FOR A MAIZE CROP IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL. EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE, v. 55, n. 4, p. 662-671, AUG 2019. (16/17008-2, 16/06363-6, 17/20925-0, 14/50023-0, 14/12406-4)

VIANNA, MURILO DOS SANTOS; PINTO NASSIF, DANIEL SILVEIRA; CARVALHO, KASSIO DOS SANTOS; MARIN, FABIO RICARDO. Modelling the trash blanket effect on sugarcane growth and water use. COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE, v. 172, MAY 2020. (14/05887-6, 15/16214-5, 17/20925-0, 17/50445-0)

MARIN, FABIO R.; ANGELOCCI, LUIZ R.; NASSIF, DANIEL S. P.; VIANNA, MURILO S.; PILAU, FELIPE G.; DA SILVA, EVANDRO H. F. M.; SOBENKO, LUIZ R.; GONCALVES, ALEXANDRE O.; PEREIRA, RODOLFO A. A.; CARVALHO, KASSIO S.. Revisiting the crop coefficient-reference evapotranspiration procedure for improving irrigation management. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY, v. 138, n. 3-4, p. 1785-1793, NOV 2019. (17/20925-0, 17/50445-0, 11/18072-2, 14/05887-6, 14/12406-4)

TAMIRES TELES DE SOUZA; LUÍS ALBERTO SILVA ANTOLIN; VITOR DE JESUS MARTINS BIANCHINI; RODOLFO ARMANDO DE ALMEIDA PEREIRA; EVANDRO HENRIQUE FIGUEIREDO MOURA SILVA; FÁBIO RICARDO MARIN. Longer crop cycle lengths could offset the negative effects of climate change on Brazilian maize. Bragantia, v. 78, n. 4, p. 622-631, 2019-12-13. (14/12406-4, 16/06363-6, 17/50445-0, 17/20925-0)