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in yields (global wheat yields rose by an average 3.3%CAGR in the decade following the green revolution, vs 2.6% in the decade prior) and a 20-year period of sustained low agricultural prices. With global demand surging


again, and an 8-year trend of steadily rising real prices (interrupted only briefly by the global financial crisis), we may be entering a period during which a global refocus on agricultural production is at hand. Indeed, there is significant room


Only a renewed focus on agricultural productivity has the potential to ease agricultural prices more broadly


for improvement, particularly within the emerging markets. Despite being the second largest corn producer in the world, Chinese yields are barely half those seen in the US. Similarly, Russia lags the US in wheat yields by nearly 1 MT/ha. Only a renewed focus on agricultural productivity has the potential to ease agricultural prices more broadly as we move


through the decade. • Copyright © by Morgan Stanley 2011, all rights reserved.


Hussein Allidina is Head of Global Commodity Research & Bennett Meier Senior Commodities Analyst at Morgan Stanley. E: Hussein.Allidina@morganstanley.com


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