GCRI · Food Nexus

Agricultural production

Agricultural production is where weather, soil, water, inputs, labour and markets become harvests of crops, livestock products and fish. Output responds to every one of those drivers, and in many countries it is concentrated in a few crops, regions and seasons. This page sets out how production systems respond to stress, how output and its drivers are measured, and what the evidence can tell ministries, producers and insurers before and after a season.

01Register

Agricultural production on the record.

02The question

Agricultural production: how the risk develops.

Crop, livestock and aquaculture production systems. The dossier below sets out how the risk develops, what is measured, where the data come from, how it is modelled and who decides.

Mechanism

The binding constraint sets yield

Light, temperature and genetics set potential yield; water and nutrients limit it; pests, weeds and disease reduce it. The gap between attainable and actual yield shows which constraint binds in each place.

Mechanism

Timing matters as much as totals

Heat at flowering, a dry spell at grain fill or rain at harvest does damage out of proportion to seasonal totals. A season with normal rainfall can still fail if the rain arrives at the wrong stage.

Mechanism

Inputs tie farms to energy and trade

Nitrogen fertiliser is made from natural gas, pumps and machinery run on diesel or electricity, and feed for livestock and aquaculture is traded globally. A price shock in energy or feed reaches planting and stocking decisions within a season.

Mechanism

Concentration amplifies loss

When a few breadbaskets, varieties or export regions supply most of a commodity, a correlated shock in them moves global availability. Synchronous failure across major producers is the scenario that matters most and the hardest to estimate.

03Geography

Growing conditions in the Black Sea region.

Crop greenness, root-zone soil moisture and plant growth over the Black Sea region, from NASA GIBS. Each layer carries its own date.

The interactive map needs JavaScript; the layer list and sources are below.

Layers 3

Growing conditions, for this page

About this layer
Evidence
Observed (clouds leave gaps)
Source
MODIS Terra NDVI (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Satellite index; clouds leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-13
Resolution
about 250 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite greenness index over the 8 days to the date shown; an indicator of crop and pasture condition, not a yield estimate or a food security warning.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Modelled
Source
SMAP Level 4 (NASA NSIDC DAAC)
Provider
NASA NSIDC DAAC
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Model with satellite data assimilated
Newest at build
2026-10-11
Resolution
about 2 km grid
Uncertainty
Model with satellite data assimilated. Satellite or model raster as the provider publishes it. Clouds, swath gaps and retrieval error leave gaps and noise; values are indicators, not measurements at a place.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Modelled (latest 8-day period GIBS publishes)
Source
MODIS Aqua GPP (MYD17) (NASA LP DAAC)
Provider
NASA LP DAAC
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
8-day; Satellite-driven model; latest 8-day period GIBS publishes
Newest at build
2026-09-30
Resolution
about 500 m grid
Uncertainty
Model estimate of carbon taken up by plants over the 8-day period shown; an indicator of growth, not harvest or production.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Observed
Source
VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Satellite image
Newest at build
2026-10-14
Resolution
about 250 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite image. Satellite or model raster as the provider publishes it. Clouds, swath gaps and retrieval error leave gaps and noise; values are indicators, not measurements at a place.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Modelled (latest year GIBS publishes)
Source
MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1) (NASA LP DAAC)
Provider
NASA LP DAAC
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
yearly; Satellite classification; latest year GIBS publishes
Newest at build
2024-01-01
Resolution
about 500 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite land cover classes for the year shown, including croplands; a classification with known errors, not a farm register.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Observed (persistent cloud still leaves gaps)
Source
VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
8-day; Satellite 8-day composite; persistent cloud still leaves gaps
Newest at build
2026-09-14
Resolution
about 1 km grid
Uncertainty
Satellite skin temperature of the ground over the 8 days ending on the date shown, a heat exposure indicator; not air temperature, heat index or a heat warning.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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Growing conditions, framed on the Black Sea region.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date. They are indicators, not assessments of any place.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · NASA EONET · NASA JPL OPERA DIST-ALERTSources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • SMAP Level 4 soil moisture and snow mass, NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office; distributed by the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Cite as: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003. doi:10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003. NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Live events: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET); events are indicative and keep their original source links.
  • Live: NASA EONET Events are indicative, not authority warnings.
  • Observed (EO): NASA JPL OPERA DIST-ALERT (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026). We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
  • NASA GIBS: We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
  • River discharge forecast, 30 days with range (GloFAS via Open-Meteo): Contains modified Copernicus Emergency Management Service information 2026; not a flood warning.
  • Past year, daily temperature (ERA5 via Open-Meteo): Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
  • Past year, daily temperature and sunshine (NASA POWER): These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program..
  • Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (https://open-meteo.com/), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
  • Optional layers (13 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Vegetation greenness (NDVI), rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra NDVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
  • Root-zone soil moisture, 0 to 100 cm: SMAP Level 4, NASA NSIDC DAAC · 11 Oct 2026
  • Gross primary production, 8-day total: MODIS Aqua GPP (MYD17), NASA LP DAAC · 30 Sep 2026
  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
  • Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
  • Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026

04Couplings

What production depends on in the other four domains.

DomainHow it couples hereWhat to watch
WaterRain-fed yields follow soil moisture; irrigated yields follow allocation and aquifer levels. See groundwater and aquifers.Soil moisture in critical crop stages
EnergyFertiliser, diesel and pumping link planting decisions to energy prices. See industrial energy systems.Fertiliser affordability against crop prices
HealthFarm labour productivity falls in heat; zoonotic disease in livestock threatens herds and people.Heat stress days in the growing season; animal disease notifications
BiodiversityPollinators, soil biota and pest predators support yields; habitat loss erodes them. See species and genetic diversity.Pollinator-dependent crop area

The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project found that crop models disagree most where they matter most, under heat and in their response to carbon dioxide (Rosenzweig and others, 2014). Jägermeyr and colleagues reported in 2021 that the newer generation of models projects climate impacts on maize emerging earlier than previously estimated.

05Monitor

Crop and harvest monitor.

The screen a team would use to follow this subject: its measures, states and decisions. Names are examples and values are illustrative.

Crop and harvest monitor

Agricultural production · Main season · Crop stage: grain fill

Assessment in fieldGCRI · Food Nexus

Crop calendar

  1. Land preparationdone
  2. Plantingdone
  3. Emergencedone
  4. Vegetativedone
  5. Grain fillnow
  6. Harvestnext
  7. Post-harvest

Vegetation index, season to date

Yield outlook by zone

Highland zone2.5▼ 8Medium
Coastal plain3.0▼ 6Medium
Region North0.8▼ 13Low
Region South1.4▼ 1Medium

Field assessment plots

red: crop stress observed

Plot markers · example positionsN
Crop and harvest monitor: the screen’s structure, terms and states for Agricultural production.Example names and illustrative values; a design, not a record or a live system.
06Reports, standards and contributions

Production evidence in reports, and the data farmers and agencies can offer.

Seasonal production analyses are designed for the Country Quarterly series, and crop model intercomparison for the Methods and Technical series. Each yield series would carry an NS-3 record identifier under the proposed Nexus Standards, so that a published yield-at-risk can be traced to survey or model. Production statistics remain the responsibility of national statistics offices.

  • Crop-cut and field trial data with locations and dates.
  • Planting date and variety records from cooperatives.
  • Ground observations that confirm or contradict satellite crop condition.
07Simulator

A shock through an input-output economy.

A loss of output in one sector propagates through the technical coefficients to its suppliers and customers, and recovers at the rate you set; the coefficients are teaching values, not national accounts. Teaching model with stated illustrative values, not a prediction. The map on this page shows The Black Sea region; the model itself is not tied to a place.

Controls

Sector hit first (position in the list)
0
Size of the shock
30% of its output
Duration of the shock
30 days
Recovery rate
0.08 per day
Days simulated
180 days

Readouts

Output lost over the run
0.64% of a year’s output
Total over direct (multiplier)
1.65 times
Most affected other sector
Energy
Its peak inoperability
4.1%
Numbers, methods and sources
SectorPeak inoperability (%)Output weight (%)
Farming30.9815.0
Fertiliser and inputs0.2019.1
Food processing0.4621.6
Transport0.128.2
Wholesale and retail2.8922.9
Energy4.1213.1

Methods

  1. Input-output analysis Leontief (1936); Miller and Blair (2009), Input-Output Analysis, Cambridge University Press
  2. Inoperability input-output model Haimes and Jiang (2001), Journal of Infrastructure Systems 7
  3. Dynamic inoperability and recovery Lian and Haimes (2006), Systems Engineering 9
  4. Uncertainty fan (parameter Monte Carlo) Spiegelhalter, Pearson and Short (2011), Visualising uncertainty about the future, Science 333
  5. One-at-a-time sensitivity (tornado) Saltelli and others (2008), Global Sensitivity Analysis: The Primer, Wiley

Data

The model runs on the teaching values set by the controls. To calibrate it for a place, read it against these admitted layers and series, which this page’s map can draw:

  • Seaports Natural Earth
  • Maritime chokepoints Nexus (named straits and canals at their published coordinates)
  • Railways Natural Earth
  • Major roads Natural Earth
A shock through an input-output economy. Illustrative teaching model: it runs on the values set by the controls, not on measured data. Methods: Input-output analysis (Leontief (1936); Miller and Blair (2009), Input-Output Analysis, Cambridge University Press); Inoperability input-output model (Haimes and Jiang (2001), Journal of Infrastructure Systems 7); Dynamic inoperability and recovery (Lian and Haimes (2006), Systems Engineering 9).

Across the six pillars, led by Nexus Consortium

08Indicators

What is measured, and how well.

Each indicator carries its unit, its cadence, the kind of source behind it and the evidence label a value would carry. No values are shown: a programme supplies them under its own authority.

IndicatorUnitCadenceSource typeLabel
Crop yieldtonnes per hectareseasonalAgricultural surveys, crop cuttingPublished statistics
Harvested areahectaresseasonalAgricultural statistics, satellite mappingESTIMATED
Vegetation condition anomalydeviation of NDVI or fAPAR from the long-term meandekadalSatellite optical sensorsOBSERVED
Yield gappercent of attainable yieldmulti-yearCrop models against reported yieldsMODELLED
Livestock populationhead; tropical livestock unitsannualLivestock census and surveysPublished statistics
Capture fisheries and aquaculture productiontonnes live weightannualFisheries statisticsPublished statistics
Fertiliser use on croplandkilograms of nutrient per hectareannualInput statisticsPublished statistics
Crop condition classcategorical scale from poor to exceptionalmonthlyCrop monitor consensus assessmentREPORTED
09Twin and cascade simulator

Model agricultural production as a system. Run the cascade.

Assembled from the Nexus Standards area profile Food security and nutrition risk: the hazards it names, the systems and sectors that carry the loss, the controls that dampen it and the data that observe it. Choose the components, pick an initiating hazard and step through the cascade. The Map view places the run on an example geography with open data. Every coupling weight is a stated assumption you can change. A teaching model, not a forecast, an assessment or a certification. To model a place of your own choosing, open the full System Builder.

Hazards

Controls

  • NS-0 Constitution and principles
  • NS-3 Risk record UNIs (grammar, legacy crosswalk, allocation authority)
  • NS-9 Contextual UNIs (deployments, instances, programme instances)
  • NS-10 Policies and clauses (machine-readable obligations: definition, binding, evaluation and enforcement)
  • NS-11 Verification and monitoring (evidence, attestations, zero-trust conformance observation)
  • NRS-H57 Hazard family: Humanitarian crises (NHS-1 soc.humanitarian)
  • NRS-H61 Hazard family: Cascading failure (NHS-1 sys.cascade)
  • NRS-H81 Hazard family: Malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency (NHS-1 health.nutrition)
  • NRS-H59 Hazard family: Economic shocks and governance failure (NHS-1 soc.economic)
  • NRS-N3 Food and agriculture risk and resilience
  • NRS-N7 Water-energy-food-health-biodiversity-infrastructure nexus coupling

Observation

  • IPC acute food insecurity analyses (listed for reference)
  • FEWS NET outlooks and data (listed for reference)
  • FAO GIEWS Food Price Monitoring and Analysis tool (listed for reference)
  • CHIRPS quasi-global gridded precipitation (listed for reference)
  • Prevalence of undernourishment
  • Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity
  • Prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years of age
  • Prevalence of malnutrition among children under 5 years of age

Example geography

  • The Ganges and Brahmaputra Basin: 178 hexagonal cells
  • Surface soil moisture (SMAP), NASA GIBS
  • Night lights tonight, outages (VIIRS Day/Night Band), NASA GIBS
  • Surface water through cloud, 30 m (OPERA DSWx-S1 radar), NASA GIBS
  • Rain rate, last half hour (IMERG), NASA GIBS
10Sources

Where the evidence comes from.

Named public datasets and institutional records, each with its licence class. Sources by agreement are used only under their terms and never republished.

SourceWhat it givesLicence class
FAOSTAT production, inputs and land-use domainsCrop, livestock, fertiliser and land-use statistics by countryFree and open, attribution
GEOGLAM Crop MonitorMonthly consensus crop condition for major producers and for countries at riskFree, attribution
FAO FishStatCapture fisheries and aquaculture production by species and countryFree and open, attribution
MapSPAM (IFPRI)Gridded crop area, yield and production by crop and farming systemFree and open, attribution
Copernicus Global Land ServiceVegetation indices, dry matter productivity and phenologyFree and open, attribution
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service PSD databaseProduction, supply and distribution balances by commodity and countryPublic domain
National agricultural censuses and surveysArea, yield, holdings and practices under the FAO World Programme for the Census of AgriculturePublic records, terms per statistics office
11Sector signature

The sector signature of agricultural production.

The sectors agricultural production touches and how strongly they depend on each other: what a study has to observe and model together.

Select corners · hover lines6 / 15 relations

Signature

Food and its partners

Food gives nutrition to health (0.7), land conversion to biodiversity (0.6) and withdrawals and runoff to water (0.3).

W · E · I · F · H · B

Sectors
4 of 6
Relations
6 of 15
Coupling
0.46 share of total

Strongest relations in play

  • Food → Biodiversity · land conversion0.6
  • Water → Food · irrigation0.8
  • Water → Biodiversity · environmental flows0.6
  • Food → Health · nutrition0.7
Teaching values for a typical city-region, not measurements for any place. Coupling is the summed strength of the relations in play, as a share of all fifteen.
12Decisions

Who decides, and what the evidence serves.

Food Nexus prepares evidence. The decisions below are taken by the authorities named, under their own rules, and never by the platform.

Who decidesThe questionEvidence this page serves
Agriculture ministries and extension servicesWhich districts, crops and herds face the largest production risk this season, and where to direct inputs and adviceCrop condition against the seasonal outlook; yield-at-risk by district with its label
Crop and livestock insurers, and index insurance programmesWhether a loss index tracks actual farm losses closely enough to pay fairlySatellite and survey yields compared for the same units and seasons, with basis risk stated
Food reserve and import planning agenciesHow large the domestic shortfall is likely to be, and how early imports must be contractedProduction outlooks with ranges; supply balances with stocks and trade
Producer organisations and cooperativesWhich varieties, planting dates and practices reduce exposure to the stresses now most frequentTrial and survey evidence on varieties and practices, with the conditions each was tested under

Outputs this topic produces

  • Production profiles by region with the concentration of output made explicit
  • Seasonal yield-at-risk layers with forecast skill stated
  • Input dependency maps linking fertiliser, feed and fuel to production
  • Synchronous-failure scenarios across major producing regions
13Methods and evidence

How agricultural production is modelled, measured and tested.

The model, its assumptions, its data and its uncertainty, in the form a scientist or engineer would check. Structures follow published methods. The values drawn are illustrative, not findings.

System model

The couplings between the systems in agricultural production: signs of influence, a reinforcing and a balancing loop, and cross-links where stress jumps.

++−++FoodTradeClimateCommunitiesEconomyR reinforcingB balancing
Causal loop diagram from the page’s systems; signs show the direction of influence. Illustrative structure for a system dynamics or network model, not estimated couplings.
FAIR guiding principles · GO FAIR and FORCE11W3C PROV · World Wide Web ConsortiumGuidance on consistent treatment of uncertainties · IPCCCEOS Analysis Ready Data · Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
14Core questions

What experts ask.

Production is where most food-system risk begins. Weather, pests and input shortages act first on fields, herds and ponds, and the size of the loss there sets the scale of everything that follows downstream.

  • How sensitive are the main crops, livestock and farmed fish in a region to temperature, rainfall timing and extreme events?
  • Where is production concentrated in a few crops, varieties or breeds, and what does that concentration mean for exposure to a single pest or disease?
  • How much of the gap between actual and attainable yields comes from water, nutrients, pests or management?
  • Which adaptation options, such as changed planting dates, tolerant varieties, irrigation or diversification, work in which conditions, and for whom?
15Mechanisms

Drivers and processes.

Production risk arises where biological thresholds meet weather, markets and management.

Climate

Heat, water and timing

Crops are most sensitive during flowering and grain filling; heat and water stress at those stages can sharply cut yields. Livestock lose productivity under heat stress, and warmer water lowers oxygen in aquaculture.

Biology

Pests and disease

Pathogens and pests spread through trade, wind and changing climate envelopes. Genetic uniformity raises the chance that one outbreak affects a wide area.

Inputs

Seed, feed, fertiliser and labour

Availability and price of inputs determine whether producers plant, feed and harvest at full capacity in a given season.

16Methods and data

How the evidence is built, and its limits.

  1. 01

    Field and station data

    Agronomic trials, farm surveys and veterinary surveillance give direct evidence but cover limited places and years.

  2. 02

    Earth observation

    Satellite indicators of vegetation, soil moisture and crop area, applied through Earth observation and remote sensing, give wide coverage but need ground truth to separate crop types and stress causes.

  3. 03

    Crop and livestock models

    Process models simulate growth under weather and management scenarios. Their skill varies by crop and region, and they often represent pests, disease and extremes poorly.

  4. 04

    Statistics

    Yield statistics from national systems are essential for trends but can be revised, aggregated or delayed, which limits their use in a fast-moving season.

17Methods

How it is studied, and what the methods cannot say.

  1. Agricultural, soil and food scienceCrop simulation for seasonal yield risk · Yield gap and nutrient limitation analysisApplied here
  2. Earth observation and remote sensingCrop condition monitoring · Crop type and area mapping · Irrigation and water productivityApplied here
  3. Forecasting and time-series analysisSeasonal production outlooks · Staple price forecasting · Anticipatory action triggersApplied here
  4. Spatial statistics and geostatisticsSmall-area estimation of food insecurity · Digital soil mappingApplied here
  5. Ecology and biodiversity sciencePollination and natural pest control · Fisheries and aquatic food websApplied here
19Questions

Questions and answers.

What is a yield gap?
The difference between the yield attainable with well adapted varieties and good management under local conditions and the yield farmers actually obtain. It shows where better water, nutrients or crop protection would raise output most.
Can satellites measure yields?
They measure crop condition: greenness, canopy cover and growth through the season. Turning condition into yield needs ground data and models, and the error is largest on small, mixed plots.
Why do synchronous failures matter so much?
Because trade relies on one region compensating for another. If several major producers lose output in the same season, that buffer disappears and prices respond everywhere.
Are livestock and fish covered?
Yes. Herds, feed, animal disease and fisheries production belong to the same system, though they are measured less often than crops and with wider error.
Does Food Nexus forecast harvests?
It can assess production exposure and publish scenario analysis with stated uncertainty. It does not issue crop forecasts, which remain with national statistical and agricultural services.
Is aquaculture included?
Yes. Farmed fish and aquatic plants are covered, including the effects of water temperature, oxygen, disease and feed supply.
Are smallholder systems covered?
Yes. Smallholder production is central to food security in many regions, and its specific exposures, such as reliance on rainfall and limited access to inputs and credit, are a core concern.
Why does genetic diversity matter for production risk?
When large areas grow the same variety or breed, a single pest or pathogen able to overcome its defences can cause losses across the whole area. Diversity spreads that risk.
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