Populations will pressure cereal yield growth
Improvement in yields for cereals is necessary to accommodate population growth, but may not occur
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- Causes of flatlining
- Biological ceiling
- Declining research
- Patent concentration
- Regulatory changes
- Possible reversal of trend
- Research spending
- Educational programmes
- Climate change
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