João Vasco Silva

Employment

• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Agronomy-at-scale Data Scientist
  2020 - Present

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Publications (33)

• Yield constraints in Ethiopia’s cereal production systems
  Field Crops Research 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2026.110488
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• Predictive mapping of wholesale crop prices for rural areas in Tanzania
  Lavinia Madaga, Jordan Chamberlin, Bisrat Haile Gebrekidan

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  • Maxwell Mkondiwa
  • Nicholaus Musimu Kuboja
  • ‪João Vasco Silva
  Q Open 2026 DOI: 10.1093/qopen/qoag013
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• Agronomic management drives the wheat yield plateau in high-yielding environments of northwest Europe
  Nature Food 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01286-w
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• A spatial framework for guiding mechanization investments and evaluating mechanization theory in Africa: Evidence from Zimbabwe
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7309598
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• Unravelling the contribution of G × E × M interactions to maize productivity in Central Mozambique amid climate change
  Experimental Agriculture 2026 DOI: 10.1017/S0014479726100301
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• Why crop yields fail to increase in southern Africa
  Nature Food 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01215-x
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• Soil acidity remediation in sub-Saharan Africa requires targeted investments
  Nature Food 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01194-z
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• Opportunities to Narrow Potato Yield Gaps and Increase Resource Use Efficiency in West Java, Indonesia
  Potato Research 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s11540-024-09778-1
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• Ensuring sustainable crop production when yield gaps are small: A data-driven integrated assessment for wheat farms in Northwest India
  Hari Sankar Nayak, ‪João Vasco Silva, C.M. Parihar +8 more
  European Journal of Agronomy 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2024.127492
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• Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia
  Sam Coggins, Andrew James McDonald, ‪João Vasco Silva +11 more
  Nature Sustainability 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01496-3
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• Agronomy, not genetics nor climate change, explains wheat yield plateaus in Northwest Europe
  2024 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5030659/v1
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• The burden of acid soils for crop production in sub-Saharan Africa
  2024 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4400083/v1
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• Estimating lime requirements for tropical soils: Model comparison and development
  Geoderma 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116421
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• Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options?
  Food Security 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s12571-021-01209-0
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• The future of farming: Who will produce our food?
  Food Security 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s12571-021-01184-6
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• Agronomic analysis of nitrogen performance indicators in intensive arable cropping systems: An appraisal of big data from commercial farms
  Field Crops Research 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108176
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• Wheat yield gaps across smallholder farming systems in Ethiopia
  Agronomy for Sustainable Development 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s13593-020-00654-z
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• Grand challenges for the 21st century: what crop models can and can't (yet) do
  The Journal of Agricultural Science 2020 DOI: 10.1017/S0021859621000150
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• Unravelling the variability and causes of smallholder maize yield gaps in Ethiopia
  Food Security 2019 DOI: 10.1007/s12571-019-00981-4
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• Balancing indicators for sustainable intensification of crop production at field and river basin levels
  Science of The Total Environment 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135925
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