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According to Asian Development Bank research, by 2050, irrigated rice and wheat yields could fall by as much as 20% and 44%, respectively.
Whether this thaw yields more meaningful fruit hinges on the North maintaining its freeze on nuclear and missile tests.
Bond yields would shoot up.
With Treasury yields spiking and economic activity collapsing, the Fed would want to cut interest rates and flood the markets with liquidity.
Through the Nairobi-Upper-Tana Water Fund, the combined resources of government and business are helping farmers implement more sustainable agricultural practices, such as the use of cover crops, resulting not only in increased water flows to Nairobi, but also in higher agricultural yields.
They also have to show that for the vast majority of citizens, clientilism yields no benefits, and that a lack of democratic accountability, a dysfunctional bureaucracy, and erosion of the rule of law will in the long run hurt the people – all of them.
Relative to German bonds, the spreads in February of secondary-market yields of government bonds with maturities of close to ten years were 141 basis points for Italy, 257 for Greece, and 252 for Ireland, compared to just 32, 84, and 25 basis points, respectively, in 2000.
The low yields of organic agriculture – typically 20-50% below conventional agriculture – impose various stresses on farmland, especially on water consumption.
Lower crop yields in organic farming are largely inevitable, owing to the arbitrary rejection of various advanced methods and technologies.
If organic production were scaled up significantly, the lower yields would lead to greater pressure to convert land to agricultural use and produce more animals for manure, to say nothing of the tighter squeeze on water supplies – all of which are challenges to sustainability.
Starved for ScienceAMSTERDAM – In the Mekong Delta, farmers obtain 6-7 tons of rice per hectare in dry seasons and 4-5 tons per hectare in wet seasons, using fast-maturing rice varieties that allow up to three consecutive yields annually.
By contrast, West African rice farmers harvest only 1.5 tons per hectare of traditional upland rice annually, while other cereals yield no more than one ton – a figure comparable to yields in medieval Europe.
For example, a new variety of African upland rice, Nerica, triples annual yields.
To be sure, raising yields is not the same as feeding the world.
At the same time, these objectives, while pressing, should not obscure the need to focus on yields – increases in which have accounted for three-quarters of food-production growth in recent decades.
A more immediate challenge is ensuring that crops receive sufficient water, which requires building and maintaining efficient irrigation systems to stabilize yields and enable farmers to harvest an additional crop each year.
They enable farmers to produce higher yields with fewer inputs (such as pesticides), so that more food can be produced from existing farmland.
With investment risks largely collectivized by the bailout measures instituted by the ECB and the eurozone’s member governments, investors are once again accepting low yields, and borrowers are seizing the new opportunities.
Such developments would cause US debt yields to spike, disrupting growth.
The pilot project, launched in 2015 with support from TechnoServe and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has led to a 60% decline in pesticide use and a 100% increase in yields.
They did not comprehend the upward trend in prices before 1980, so bond yields, lagging behind rising inflation, were too low.
In the US, ten-year US Treasury yields averaged only 1.46% above the inflation rate between 1953, when annual average inflation was only 0.63%, and March 1980, when inflation peaked at 14.66%.
Nor did the investing public fully comprehend the downtrend in inflation after 1980, so long-term bond yields, lagging behind falling inflation, were too high.
In the US, yields on ten-year Treasuries have averaged 4.14% above the rate of inflation throughout the period of declining inflation that began in April 1980.
The public's failure to recognize inflation trends meant that long-term bonds were a terrible investment until 1980, when inflation was only a little lower than yields, and a lucrative investment thereafter, when declining inflation and high yields guaranteed large real gains.
The current combination of exceptionally low yields and high prices suggests that much of the world is in a bond-market bubble, and when it bursts in coming years, a period of higher long-term interest rates and lower long-term bond prices will follow.
Investing an extra $88 billion in agricultural R&D over the next 32 years would increase yields by an additional 0.4 percentage points every year, which could save 79 million people from hunger and prevent five million cases of child malnourishment.
The OECD estimates that a dollar of aid spent on improving tax collection yields an average of $350 in revenue.
As a result, the capital that flowed to emerging markets in the years of high liquidity and low yields in advanced economies is now fleeing many countries where easy money caused fiscal, monetary, and credit policies to become too lax.
The promise to keep the overnight interest rate low for an extended period was intended to persuade investors that they could achieve higher returns only by buying long-term securities, which would drive up these securities’ prices and drive down their yields.
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