Growing grain crops

At the global level production variability around the growth trend increased between the 1960s and the 1970s in both absolute and relative terms. The associated probability of a major shortfall below the trend in world cereal production has also increased.

1. Growing food
2. Growing crops for seed
3. Cultivating plants
4. Growing crops

1. Sowing mixed stock-feed grains
2. Producing oilseeds and oils
3. Improving rice cultivation practices
4. Improving grain yield

1. Exporting cereals

1. Building safe grain warehouses
2. Advancing cereal science

1. Reducing meat consumption to conserve grain
2. Planting grasses
3. Conserving herbaceous habitats

1. Variability in crop yields
2. Smuts of grasses and cereals
3. Rusts of grasses and cereals
4. Overdependence on few crop species
5. Food insecurity
6. Excessive wheat surpluses
7. Environmental hazards from field crop production
8. Adverse effects of high-yield grain in traditional agricultural settings