Global Yield Gap Atlas

Decision-making abilities for your next investment in agriculture are only as good as the data in front of you.

The world's leading database on high-quality agronomic data with local to global relevance that covers up to 13 major food crops across 70 countries and six continents with the following data:

  • actual and potential yield and yield gap
  • actual and potential water productivity
  • actual and minimum nutrient requirement
  • underlying data on weather, soil and cropping systems
  • climate zones and technology extrapolation domains (TEDs).

The data serves research, strategic decision making and local-global actions that aim to improve yield and resource use efficiency by public and private sectors.

UPDATE: GYGA got featured in the recently-published 2022 Sustainable Development Report by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)! Check out the 'Yield Gap Closure' indicator in the SDR 2022 here!

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The Global Yield Gap Atlas (GYGA) is on a mission to be a comprehensive and self-sustaining global database with local to global agronomic rigour for the benefit of thousands of public and private data users. 
We are looking for your contribution to bring GYGA to the next level!

 

 

Our product and service

The GYGA platform - what makes GYGA a unique database?

  1. All-in-one data management platform
  2. High-quality and locally-relevant data collected by agronomists from well-known institutions in each country following a common protocol with a solid agronomic foundation
  3. A bottom-up approach from local level up to region and country
  4. Data are available at different spatial levels: weather station, climate zone and national levels
  5. The database can be readily expanded with additional crops and countries.

Currently, the country by crop combinations included in GYGA account for 88%, 76%, 55% and 71% respectively, of the global rice, maize, wheat and soybean growing areas.

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Research expertise by the GYGA team

The GYGA team (University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Wageningen University & Research) consists of world-leading scientists on agronomy and resource use efficiency who will be happy to support you to achieve your goals. We always work in collaboration with country agronomists from reputable institutions with knowledge on production systems, soils, and climate to ensure local relevance and a strong agronomic foundation. See our partners across the globe here.

Possible areas of future research include:

  1. Addition of new countries or crops of specific interest
  2. Scenario studies on food security, land use, climate smart agriculture or resource use efficiency for specific regions, countries or the globe
  3. Ex-ante impact assessment of agricultural technologies
  4. Ex-post impact assessment of R&D investments.

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Who is GYGA for?

Private sector

  • Agriculture companies (incl. seeds, agro-chemicals, biocontrol, irrigation, digital based)
  • Producers and suppliers of agricultural raw products
  • Consultancy companies (incl. business intelligence, strategy, finance, environment, development and sustainability)
  • Financial agencies (incl. banking, insurance, investment management)

Public and non-profit organisations

  • Local, regional and national governments
  • Research institutions and academia (incl. researchers, instructors and students in agricultural sciences)
  • Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
  • Media

 

 

How could GYGA benefit your organisation?
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Your go-to database platform

Save your time with all-in-one platform on high quality and locally relevant data on crop yield, yield gaps and agronomic data

Strategic decision-making support

Reduce risk and uncertainty in your strategic decision making with high-quality and locally relevant data

Prioritise your investments

Optimise your revenue and cost-saving by using the data to prioritise investments that could give the highest return and resource use efficiency

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A starting point to close yield gap in the field

Serves as a foundation for further studies on how to close yield gaps in the field and determine relevant local actions

Get a more accurate investment analysis

Perform ex-ante and ex-post potential impact assessment of an investment

Analyses on food security, land use and resource use efficiency

Undertake analyses on food security and potential areas for sustainable intensification to optimise your return.

 

 

Achievements
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Invites 60,000 visitors every year Over 19,000 data downloads per year, averaged over the past 5 years Produced dozens and triggered hundreds of highly-cited publications over the past 10 years Included as the Yield Gap Closure indicator for the assessment of SDG2 by UN-SDSN

 

 

Our Platinum sponsors
Bill & Melinda Gates foundation Yara International Fertilizer Association  

 

 

Testimonials
Guillaume Lafortune,
Director at Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Paris
Wijnand van IJssel,
Senior Advisor Food Security at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“It is our ambition to add indicators on water use efficiency and nutrient use efficiency with the best available (agronomically robust) data. The Atlas can deliver this. It is also SDSN’s ambition to publish such indicators annually to monitor progress of realising the SDGs. Hence frequent updates of data are critical." “The Atlas has the potential to be an important diagnostic tool for evidence-based policy dialogue, policy making and policy implementation around different SDGs, particularly also for developing countries. The expansion of the global data is critical for applications in integrated agriculture and land management, raising productivity in a sustainable manner."
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GYGA has come a long way. GYGA started as a research project in 2011, and it has now transitioned into a first of its kind database that provides high-quality and locally-relevant data on yield gaps and agronomic data used by thousands across sectors (companies, public, research institute-academia, NGOs).

In order to grow into a comprehensive and self-sustaining global database, we are looking for your contribution to determine the future development of GYGA and bring the platform to the next level!