Global Yield Gap and Water Productivity Atlas for Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia

Global carrying capacity for food production and our ability to protect carbon-rich and biodiverse natural ecosystems from conversion to cropland ultimately depend on achieving maximum possible yields on every hectare of currently used arable land. Yet, for most major crop producing regions of the world, there are no reliable data on the exploitable gap between current average farm yield and yield potential or water productivity, the efficiency with which water is converted to food.
 
This project will produce the first Global Yield Gap Atlas for Morocco, Jordan, and Tunisia. It will be a transparent, reproducible, agronomically accurate, interactive map-based web platform to estimate the exploitable gaps in yield for the four major food crops in each country.  The research is being carried out as part of a global assessment of the yield gap.