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If a country is geographically big enough, different parts probably have different top-yielding crops (due to different soil/climate/etc). The current dataset doesn't have any info on this - crop yields are only a country-level average. | If a country is geographically big enough, different parts probably have different top-yielding crops (due to different soil/climate/etc). The current dataset doesn't have any info on this - crop yields are only a country-level average. | ||
====Social, economic, and technological factors==== | ====Social, economic, and technological factors==== | ||
We can't ''prove'' that the top-yielding crop is always ''better-suited'' for the local region. In some cases, perhaps it just has more resources invested into it: Maybe it happens to be grown by richer people (or corporations) which have more access to [[fertilizer]] etc. In which case, some currently-less-productive crops could be just as good if given a chance. The current dataset has no info on this. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Food]] - the main page which includes other possible ways to improve the global food supply. | * [[Food]] - the main page which includes other possible ways to improve the global food supply. | ||