• Economic value of Brangus cattle traits in Argentina 

      Gatti, Nicolas; Funes, Victor; Benito Amaro, Ignacio (Wiley, 2024-05)
      Starting in the early 2000s, a boom in demand for agricultural commodities displaced cattle ranching out of the most productive areas of the Pampas' prairie. The crossbreeds between Angus and Hereford with Brahman, that ...
    • How much control do smallholder maize farmers have over yield? 

      Cecil, Michael; Chilenga, Allan; Chisanga, Charles; Gatti, Nicolas; Krell, Natasha; Vergopolan, Noemi; Baylis, Kathy; Caylor, Kelly; Evans, Tom; Konar, Megan; Sheffield, Justin; Estes, Lyndon (Elsevier, 2023-10)
      Smallholder agriculture is critical for current and future food security, yet quantifying the sources of smallholder yield variance remains a major challenge. Attributing yield variance to farmer management, as opposed to ...
    • Is closing the agricultural yield gap a “risky” endeavor? 

      Gatti, Nicolas; Cecil, Michael; Baylis, Kathy; Estes, Lyndon; Blekking, Jordan; Heckelei, Thomas; Vergopolan, Noemi; Evans, Tom (Elsevier, 2023-05)
      CONTEXT: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the climatic and biophysical potential to grow the crops it needs to meet rapidly growing food demand; however, agricultural productivity remains low. While potential maize yields in ...