Subject: IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: GHI Launches 2010 GAP REPORT(TM) at World Food Prize
From: "Global Harvest Initiative" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:45:16 -0400 (EDT)

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The Global Harvest Initiative launched on Wednesday the 2010 GAP Report(TM) developed
with the Farm Foundation and U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research 
Service (ERS). The GAP Report(TM) quantifies for the first time the difference between
the current rate of global agricultural productivity growth and the pace required
to meet future needs.

Doubling agricultural output to meet global demand by 2050 will require an annual
average growth of at least 1.75 percent in total factor productivity (TFP), said
 Neil Conklin, president of the Farm Foundation, NFP and author of the report. Total
factor productivity is the increase in output per unit of total resources employed
in production. Between 2000 and 2007, ERS estimates global agricultural TFP growth
averaged 1.4 percent per year.

Bill Lesher, executive director of Global Harvest Initiative, told a group of agricultural
industry and governmental leaders assembled in Des Moines for the World Food Prize
Symposium that the new annual report brings the urgent need to boost the rate of
 global agricultural productivity growth to the forefront of world issues:

"We need to do more with less and we must start implementing measures and policies
that increase productivity today," said Lesher. "A ramp up of this order is achievable,
as the public and private sectors demonstrated during the Green Revolution. Now 
we must provide public and private support for an Evergreen Revolution that is twice
as long more an even more productive than the last- without drawing on additional
natural resources and other inputs. Modern, productive agriculture has many new 
innovations in the pipeline. However, more must be done. With the right combination
of smart policies and public/private sector investments around the globe beginning
now, agriculture will be poised to sustainably meet the world's needs in 2050."

Neil Conklin, president of the Farm Foundation, NFP and author of the report said:

"To close the gap without additional land and resources, we must increase the rate
of productivity growth an average of 25 percent more per year over the next 40 years,"
said Conklin. "And, productivity will need to grow faster than that during the next
two decades, when the population will be increasing more rapidly than it will as
 it levels off by 2050."

Keith Fuglie, Branch Chief for Resource, Environmental and Science Policy in the
 Resource and Rural Economics Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic
Research Service, said:

"Assessing total factor productivity - the amount of output per unit of total factors,
or inputs, used for production - for the entire global agricultural sector provides
a more comprehensive picture of changes in resource requirements to produce farm
 commodities," said Fuglie. "A 1 percent increase in TFP, for example, means that
1 percent fewer agricultural resources are required to produce a given bundle of
 crop and livestock outputs."

With the first GAP Report(TM) released in 2010, the Global Harvest Initiative plans
to update the report annually to gauge progress and with the goal of each report
 becoming more comprehensive and prescriptive to help better identify actions needed
in different parts of the world. The signature GAP Index(TM) will become an important
tool in measuring progress over time.

Read the press release [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mwl9b6dab&et=1103786159026&s=316&e=001G2TnNzb4I88Tsqk7ZQUI616ELQ9xNom5VFkxjP8Ge9GFfvjL6ye-X4aqXEPfrOffu4OkDzHqjGrFnOVou7E7Bg==]
and access the GAP Report(TM) and presentations here:

http://www.globalharvestinitiative.org/GAP.htm [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mwl9b6dab&et=1103786159026&s=316&e=001G2TnNzb4I88mZKCiSj-jpT4rzlBY9uteYLZ1yAWqgkx1aNHfhwd6kBhzGAKO-7JgOWXZF1n78RHQLhJM2H6r68IapEMWaJj1RmjxRrGWkYRxq9A-pyCyK-fx-x2N5d54EkT9ePN_xDg=]

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