Plenary Keynote on Day 1 of the 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme held from April 24-26 in Bern, Switzerland.

Dr. Patricio Grassini is an Associate Professor of Agronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and a fellow of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute and the Center for Great Plains Study. Patricio earned a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a Ph.D. in Agronomy from UNL in 2007. He has authored 55 papers published in peer-review journals, including top-tier journals such as Nature Communications, PNAS, BioScience, Environmental Research Letters, and Global Change Biology, 7 book chapters, and many extension publications. His research interests center on crop yield potential, yield-gap analysis, resource- and energy-use efficiency in cropping systems, and crop modeling. Patricio’s research covers a diverse range of cropping systems, including rainfed crops in Argentina and Sub-Saharan Africa and high-yield irrigated crops in the U.S. Corn Belt and South-East Asia. Major on-going project is to develop a Global Yield Gap and Water Productivity Atlas (www.yieldgap) that provides estimates of gaps between actual and potential yield for major cropping systems as well as crop water productivity. Dr Grassini is also leading a project to benchmark on-farm yields and input-use efficiency of maize-soybean systems in the US Corn Belt, a USDA-NIFA project on N footprint, and a third project on yield forecasting. Dr. Grassini was recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and other three fellowships and six awards, including the Agronomy Society of America (ASA) Early Career Award and UNL Junior Faculty Excellence in Research Award. Patricio also serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Field Crops Research and Global Food Security journals. He also serves as a member of the Science Advisory Council of Field to Market. Patricio is the elected Chair of the Crop Science Society of America C3 Division for the 2018 term.

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