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Resumo -Este trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar um sistema de previsão de safra de soja para o Brasil, baseado em modelos empíricos regionalizados para estimativa da produtividade, a partir de um banco de dados de área cultivada em escala municipal, e de um sistema de monitoramento agrometeorológico de abrangência nacional. Forecast system of soybean crop yield for BrazilAbstract -The aim of this work was to evaluate a system to forecast soybean crop yield for Brazil, based on regional empirical models to assess crop yield, with data from a national database of soybean cropped area in municipal scale, and from an agrometeorological monitoring system covering all Brazilian States. The models incorporated the conceptual bases proposed by Doorenbos & Kassam, with empirical adjustments for each region of Brazil, considering the diverse potential yield of most used varieties and the regional differences in the soybean production systems. Cultivated area database from each State was structured with data from IBGE and Conab. Soybean yield was estimated for harvests from 2000/2001 to 2005/2006 and compared to Conab surveys. Statistical analysis using Test t point out that there is no significant difference between estimates and official data. Good fittings were gotten for region grouped yield data (R 2 ≥0.87), with higher deviations for harvest assessment of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso do Sul, Maranhão, Piauí and Bahia. In national scale, the highest observed deviation was 5.81% for the 2000/2001 harvest, and the smaller one was 0.62% for the 2005/2006 yield.

Projected change in forage production under a range of climate scenarios is important for the evaluation of the impacts of global climate change on pasture-based livestock production systems in Brazil. We evaluated the effects of regional climate trends on Panicum maximum cv. Tanzânia production, predicted by an agrometeorological model considering the sum of degree days and corrected by a water availability index. Data from Brazilian weather stations were considered as the current climate (baseline), and future scenarios, based on contrasting scenarios in terms of increased temperature and atmospheric CO 2 concentrations (high and low increases), were determined for 2013-2040 (2025 scenario) and for 2043-2070 (2055 scenario). Predicted baseline scenarios indicated that there are regional and seasonal variations in P. maximum production related to variation in temperature and water availability during the year. Production was lower in the Northeast region and higher in the rainforest area. Total annual production under future climate scenarios was predicted to increase by up to 20% for most of the Brazilian area, mainly due to temperature increase, according to each climate model and scenario evaluated. The highest increase in forage production is expected to be in the South, Southeast and Central-west areas of Brazil. In these regions, future climate scenarios will not lead to changes in the seasonal production, with larger increases in productivity during the summer. Climate risk is expected to decrease, as the probability of occurrence of low forage productions will be lower. Due to the predicted increase in temperature and decrease in rainfall in the Northeast area, P. maximum production is expected to decrease, mainly when considering scenarios based on the PRECIS model for the 2055 scenario.

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TABLE 7. Summary of Projected Annual Impacts on ET o , Rainfall (P) and IWN for Selected Scenarios (mm) and Changes (%) Relative to Baseline Period. Statistic ET o (mm ⁄ year) Precipitation (mm ⁄ year) IWN (mm ⁄ year) Baseline