Wheat yield convergence and its driving factors in countries along the Belt and Road

作     者：Xiaoheng Zhang Zhina Wang Ping Qing Dieter Koemle Xiaohua Yu 

作者机构：College of Economics and ManagementHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanP.R.China Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries(IGB)BerlinGermany Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural DevelopmentUniversity of GottingenGöttingenGermany 

出 版 物：《Ecosystem Health and Sustainability》 (生态系统健康与可持续性（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第6卷第1期

页      面：709-723,708页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 09[农学] 0901[农学-作物学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：This work was supported by the Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China[No.72003074] the Philosophy and Social Sciences Project of Ministry of Education[No.19YJC630191] Fundamental Research Funds for the Central University[No.2662020JGPYG15]. 

主　　题：Club convergence countries along the BR wheat yield temperature intensity of fertilizer use 

摘      要：Improving the wheat yield of countries along the Belt and Road(BR)plays a core role in ensuring global food security.However,little attention has been paid to the wheat yield variation and the determinants across these countries.This paper analyzes wheat yield convergence in countries along the BR using the club-convergence test.The empirical results show that instead of one convergence for all countries along the BR,the wheat yields are converging into three clubs.Furthermore,we investigate the impact of climate change and agricultural production technology on wheat yield convergence,and find that countries along the BR with a one degree Celsius increase in temperature are 36.5%(32.7%)more likely to converge to the high-level yield club.This may be related to the lower frequency of frost and higher photosynthetic capacity of wheat.We also find that a one kilogram increase in fertilizer application per hectare will result in a 0.4%(0.5%)higher probability of countries along the BR converging to the high-level yield club.Countries along the BR should pay more attention to coordinating production technologies and climate change to ensure food security.