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Agriculture and Rural Development Research

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Martín Jaurena
Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación
2
Azembouh Roshinus Tsufac
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
3
Simon Nyokabi
Wageningen University & Research
4
Roshinus Tsufac Azembouh
Université de Dschang
5
Aboubakar Iyabano
WWF Colombia
6
Daniele Bertolozzi-Caredio
European Commission
7
Oluwatoba Omotilewa
Impact Technology Development (United States)
8
Mathewos Tega
Wolaita Sodo University
9
Thomas Puech
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
10
Jean‐Luc Kouassi
Weatherford College

Rising Stars Papers

1
The impact of borrowing concentration on innovation: When is one not just enough?
Economics Letters|2024
3 cit.
2
How Long Should Grasses of South American Campos Grasslands Rest for Stockpiling Forage?
Agronomy|2024
2 cit.
3
Use of atypical plant resources for cattle farming in Western Europe to drive agroecological transition
Agricultural Systems|2025
2 cit.
4
Gender differences in successor identification within family farms
Journal of Rural Studies|2025
2 cit.
5
Analyzing the factors driving the adaptability and robustness of mixed ruminant herds in grassland systems
Agricultural Systems|2025
1 cit.
6
Farmers’ learning preferences and risk management choices
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension|2025
1 cit.
7
Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plans: Smokescreens or instruments for evidence-based policymaking?
RIVISTA DI ECONOMIA AGRARIA|2025
1 cit.
8
Analyser une transition vers la diversification : entre performances techniques et conditions territoriales d'émergence. Le cas de la transition de l'Installation Expérimentale ASTER
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)|2024
0 cit.
9
Associer recherche d'autonomie et diversification à travers les complémentarités cultures-élevages pour l'alimentation humaine
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)|2024
0 cit.
10
Transition through diversification of a mixed crop-livestock system: variability of technical performances and local conditions for emergence
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Pim Verhulst
University of Oxford
2
Svetlana Turubanova
University of Maryland, College Park
3
Muthuri Catherine
World Agroforestry Centre
4
C.M. Van Trijp Hans
Wageningen University & Research
5
Jeanne Dollinger
AgroParisTech
6
Anne‐Cécile Normand
Sorbonne Université
7
Ferdi Meyer
University of Pretoria
8
Armand Ketcha Malan Kablan
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
9
Hagrétou Sawadogo‐Lingani
Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
10
Patrick Acklam Dukwiyimpuhwe
INES-Ruhengeri

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Tree canopy extent and height change in Europe, 2001–2021, quantified using Landsat data archive
Remote Sensing of Environment|2023
67 cit.
2
MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Online Identification of Trichophyton indotineae Using the MSI-2 Application
Journal of Fungi|2022
55 cit.
3
Production and sensory evaluation of composite breads based on wheat and whole millet or sorghum in the presence of Weissella confusa A16 exopolysaccharides
Heliyon|2023
15 cit.
4
Identification of a clonal population of Aspergillus flavus by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry using deep learning
Scientific Reports|2022
11 cit.
5
Application of mid-infrared spectroscopy to the prediction and specification of pesticide sorption: A promising and cost-effective tool
Environmental Pollution|2024
11 cit.
6
Soil metabolomics: A powerful tool for predicting and specifying pesticide sorption
Chemosphere|2023
9 cit.
7
Characterization of technological properties of sorghum and millet malt produced under control condition in Burkina Faso
International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences|2022
7 cit.
8
Effect of fermentation process on hygiene and perceived quality of lait caillé, an ethnic milk product from Burkina Faso
Journal of Ethnic Foods|2023
5 cit.
9
<i>Trichophyton indotineae</i> infection with toenail onychomycosis
Clinical and Experimental Dermatology|2025
5 cit.
10
‘Learn by heart’: Beckett’s Schoolboy Copy of Shakespeare’s <i>Macbeth</i>
Journal of Beckett Studies|2022
4 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Brice Sinsin
Université d'Abomey-Calavi
2
K.E. Giller
Wageningen University & Research
3
Paul Richards
Wageningen University & Research
4
Sara Berry
Johns Hopkins University
5
Pablo Tittonell
University of Groningen
6
Michael Watts
University of California System
7
Koffi Akpagana
University of Lomé
8
Eva Schlecht
University of Kassel
9
Jules Bayala
Mali-Folkecenter
10
P. K. R. Nair
Institute of Computing Technology

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics’ view
Field Crops Research|2009
1.5k cit.
2
No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
The International Journal of African Historical Studies|1994
1.2k cit.
3
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements
Geographical Review|1997
1.2k cit.
4
Agroforestry as a strategy for carbon sequestration
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science|2008
1.1k cit.
5
When yield gaps are poverty traps: The paradigm of ecological intensification in African smallholder agriculture
Field Crops Research|2012
1.1k cit.
6
The space of vulnerability: the causal structure of hunger and famine
Progress in Human Geography|1993
920 cit.
7
Climate change and social vulnerability
Global Environmental Change|1994
872 cit.
8
Organic inputs for soil fertility management in tropical agroecosystems: application of an organic resource database
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment|2001
801 cit.
9
Resource curse? governmentality, oil and power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Geopolitics|2004
798 cit.
10
Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria
African Economic History|1984
793 cit.

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