Which countries overapplied nitrogen without gains in crop yields?
Shown is how much nitrogen pollution countries caused compared with how much they reduced their yield gaps relative to directly neighboring countries. Positivevalues (yellow to red) indicate a country overapplied nitrogen without gains in yield. This is based on yield gap and nitrogen data published between 2012 and2015.
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- Cereal yield vs. fertilizer use
- Eutrophying emissions per 100 grams of protein
- Eutrophying emissions per 1000 kilocalories
- Eutrophying emissions per kilogram of food product
- Excess phosphorous from croplands
- Excess phosphorous per hectare of cropland
- Fertilizer application rates over the long-run
- Fertilizer consumption
- Fertilizer inputs per unit of agricultural land
- Fertilizer production by nutrient type
- Fertilizer use by nutrient
- Fertilizer use per capita
- Fertilizer use per hectare of arable landLine chart
- Fertilizer use per hectare of croplandStacked bar chart
- Fertilizer use vs. GDP per capita
- Nitrogen fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Nitrogen inputs per hectare of cropland
- Phosphate fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Potash fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Total nitrogen inputs to crops
- World population supported by synthetic nitrogen fertilizers
- World population with and without synthetic nitrogen fertilizers