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Growth rate of agricultural productivity lags worldâ? S-growing demand of 25 percent per year

Des Moines, Iowa (Business Wire) 14 October 2010

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WaDImena? S 2010 reports CAP? ¢, with farm-Foundation, NFP and developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture? s Economic Research Service (ERS), the first time quantified the difference between the current growth rate of the global agricultural productivity and the pace needed to meet future needs.


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doubling of agricultural production on global demand by 2050 is an average annual growth of at least 1.75 percent of total factor productivity (TFP) require, “said Neil Conklin, president of Farm Foundation, NFP and author of the report. Total factor productivity is to increase the production per unit of total resources used in production. Between 2000 and 2007, ERS estimates of global agricultural TFP growth averaged 1.4 percent per year.

â? To fill the gap left without land and resources, we have to increase productivity growth averaging 25 percent per year over the next 40 years, â? Conklin said. â? And productivity is rising faster than in the next two decades, while the population will grow faster than it should, as it stabilizes by 2050.â ????

Bill Lesher, Executive Director of the Global Harvest Initiative, told a group of agriculture and government officials in Des Moines for the World Food Prize Symposium gathered that the new annual report of the urgent necessity increase the growth rate of total productivity of agriculture in top of the global problems.

â? We need to do more with less and we need to start implementing measures and policies that increase the productivity of today â? Lesher said. â? An increase of this magnitude is possible that the public and private sector has shown during the Green Revolution. Now we have public and private support for a doubly green revolution, the two times longer and provide more productive as Lasta? without the use of natural resources and other inputs. Modern has a lot of productive agriculture innovations in the pipeline. However, more needs to be done. With the right combination of smart policy and public investment from the private sector in the world now, agriculture will be developed sustainably, the worldâ? S needs 2050.â?


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historical growth rate of production: The Farm Foundation, NFP calculations in the report of the USDA Economic Research Services data based on the total factor productivity is developing a comprehensive understanding of the sources of long-term growth in agriculture.

â? Evaluation of total factor productivity? the amount of output per unit of all or inputs used to make? for the entire global agriculture provides a more complete picture of the development of the necessary resources for agricultural produce? Said Keith Fugli, Manager of Resources, Environment and Science Policy in Resource and Rural Economics Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture? s Economic Research Service. â? An increase of 1 percent of the PTF, for example, means less than 1 percent of agricultural resources are necessary to a certain width of crop and livestock produce outputs.â ????

While economists have developed

estimates of total factor productivity in most countries, these measures have been available recently for large developing countries are available. ERS combined studies build specific to each country as well as additional analysis of productivity growth in other regions to a comprehensive measure of TFP growth in agriculture since 1961. This index indicates how much growth was due in total agricultural production? Expand the use of resources, â? such as the use of additional land, labor, fertilizer and water in production, and how much money was to improve TFP.

â? Most people can not understand what it might take to meet the needs of 3 billion more people on higher incomes, a meeting? Lesher said. â? For world leaders to increase in the measurement of the impact of policies and allocation of resources in a sustainable, productivity rate, the report provides data allow very real GAP global and regional level to them to make informed decisions about policy and investment in research? ?


Global Harvest Initiative

Gap Report is updated annually and published each October, around the world against the chronic sufficient and sustainable production progress to meet the needs of 9.2 billion people by 2050. With Ghia? S Aid, Farm Foundation, NFP and the U.S. Department of Agriculture? FRC formed a global network of agricultural research productivity to continuously monitor and analyze trends, constraints, causes and consequences of international productivity growth. Each suite Gap Report is updated, a framework and potentially prescriptive measures to increase productivity in strategically selected regions of the world help.

â? In short, the challenge that awaits us in 2010 and I am looking at 2050 is no different than tripled the challenge of the late Norman Borlaug and others met in the years 1950 and 1960, when she returns harvests in India and higher yields in Mexico six times during the Green Revolution, â? Lesher said. â? We have 40 years to double agricultural production, but we need this in a sustainable manner with the same amount of land, less water and fewer inputs. The CAP report provides a measure of our progress in this direction monitor> goal.â ????

About the Global Initiative for Harvest: Harvest The Global Initiative aims at the development and sharing of agricultural innovations with those who need it most stimulating. The members include Archer Daniels Midland Company, Conservation International, the Congressional Hunger Center, DuPont, International Conservation Caucus Foundation, John Deere, Monsanto, Nature Conservancy, trans farm corridors Network Africa and World Wildlife Fund. Additional support is welcome from the public sector and private companies that share the common goal, the gap in overall productivity. For more information, visit www.globalharvestinitiative.org.

About the Farm Foundation, NFP: Farm Foundation, NFP, a 501 (c) (3) public charity, serves as a catalyst for sound public policy by providing objective information to a better understanding of questions of the organization to promote the future of agriculture, food systems and rural areas. Farm Foundation, has not advocate or lobby NFP. Our 77-year reputation for objectivity allows us to bring together various stakeholders for discussions on issues and public policy. www.farmfoundation.org

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