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Land Use 4 Location: B010 Session Chair: Elizabeth Yoder, Duke University | |
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Agricultural mechanization and its global impact on crop yields and the environment Land Economics, Institute of Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Germany Mechanization is a key ingredient for raising agricultural productivity. Currently, however, globally comparable information on agricultural mechanization rates is hard to come by. Here, we globally model agricultural mechanization at an unprecedented ~ 5km resolution and examine its empirical association with crop yield gaps but also soil compaction and forest loss. We find that many high-income countries are close to fully mechanized by now, whereas, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia, mechanization rates are still low. We then estimate that for each ten-percentage point increase in the mechanization rate, the average crop yield gap shrinks by 3 to 4 percentage points and soil compaction increases by 1.5 to 2 percentage points. There is no clear effect of agricultural mechanization on tree cover loss. | |