This paper examines future prospects for rainfed cereal production, and its importance in the evolving global food system. First, the paper undertakes a critical synthesis of the literature to assess three primary ways to enhance rainfed cereal yields: increasing effective rainfall use through...

The motion of a particle on a flexible one-dimensional base is investigated numerically. It is regarded as a barrier-overcoming process in a multi-dimensional phase space. Driving the system far from equilibrium, a directional flow of the particle is observed. In order to understand the...