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Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Gebeyanesh Worku Zerssa
Jimma University
2
Christopher W. Chagnon
University of Helsinki
3
Akila Wijerathna‐Yapa
Dalhousie University
4
Long Qian
Anhui Polytechnic University
5
Chaoran Chen
York University
6
Priti Khatri
Central Scientific Instruments Organisation
7
MD JUNAID
Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi
8
Ghislain D. B. Aihounton
University of Copenhagen
9
Simona Zollet
Hiroshima University
10
Birgit Kemmerling
BICC - Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies

Rising Stars Papers

1
GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL LOSSES AND THEIR CAUSES
Bulletin of Biological and Allied Sciences Research|2024
163 cit.
2
Does organic farming jeopardize food security of farm households in Benin?
Food Policy|2024
109 cit.
3
Revitalising rural areas through counterurbanisation: Community-oriented policies for the settlement of urban newcomers
Habitat International|2024
40 cit.
4
Harnessing metabolites from plant cell tissue and organ culture for sustainable biotechnology
Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC)|2025
17 cit.
5
HEALTH, HEALTH INSURANCE, AND INEQUALITY
International Economic Review|2024
15 cit.
6
Impact of floods on rice production in West Africa: Micro-evidence from Benin
Sustainable Environment|2024
7 cit.
7
Rural Entrepreneurship Education
Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy|2024
5 cit.
8
Organic Farming Systems and Rural Revitalization in Italy—Current Situation and Way Forward
Journal of Rural Problems|2024
4 cit.
9
Creative newcomers and local food culture: revitalization, sustainability, and place-making between rural and urban
Food Culture & Society|2024
4 cit.
10
A probabilistic framework for identifying anomalies in urban air quality data
Environmental Science and Pollution Research|2024
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Brenton Chookolingo
University of British Columbia
2
Paola Termine
World Food Programme
3
Raffaele Bertini
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
4
Farhad Zulfiqar
Sultan Qaboos University
5
Jacob Munger
University of Wisconsin–Madison
6
Chenchen Xu
Wuhan Polytechnic University
7
Ingo Graß
University of Hohenheim
8
Sophia E. Hagolani‐Albov
University of Helsinki
9
Colin Luoma
Brunel University of London
10
Matthias Baumann
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Win-win opportunities combining high yields with high multi-taxa biodiversity in tropical agroforestry
Nature Communications|2022
83 cit.
2
Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics
Environmental Research Letters|2022
67 cit.
3
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming
Biological Conservation|2023
54 cit.
4
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity
Ecology Letters|2023
24 cit.
5
Balancing economic and ecological functions in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
24 cit.
6
Trophic level and specialization moderate effects of habitat loss and landscape diversity on cavity‐nesting bees, wasps and their parasitoids
Insect Conservation and Diversity|2023
11 cit.
7
Reckoning with Conservation Violence on Indigenous Territories: Possibilities and Limitations of a Transitional Justice Response
International Journal of Transitional Justice|2023
9 cit.
8
The REKO model: Facebook as a platform for food system reconnection
International Journal of Food Design|2023
9 cit.
9
Land‐use intensity and relatedness to native plants promote exotic plant invasion in a tropical biodiversity hotspot
Journal of Applied Ecology|2024
9 cit.
10
Sustainability agency in unsustainable structures: rhetoric of a capable transformative individual
Discover Sustainability|2024
9 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Ian Scoones
University of Sussex
2
Wendy Wolford
Schlumberger (Ireland)
3
Patrick Meyfroidt
Fund for Scientific Research
4
Pablo Tittonell
University of Groningen
5
Jennifer C. Franco
China Agricultural University
6
K.E. Giller
Wageningen University & Research
7
Ben White
Netherlands Institute for Social Research
8
Anthony Whitbread
University of Göttingen
9
Matin Qaim
University of Göttingen
10
Christian Lund
University of Copenhagen

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2011
3.1k cit.
2
Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification
Biological Conservation|2012
2k cit.
3
Livelihoods perspectives and rural development
The Journal of Peasant Studies|2009
1.8k cit.
4
Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?
The Journal of Peasant Studies|2012
1.8k cit.
5
Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics’ view
Field Crops Research|2009
1.5k cit.
6
Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management
World Development|1999
1.4k cit.
7
Land use transitions: Socio-ecological feedback versus socio-economic change
Land Use Policy|2009
1.2k cit.
8
New frontiers of land control: Introduction
The Journal of Peasant Studies|2011
1.1k cit.
9
When yield gaps are poverty traps: The paradigm of ecological intensification in African smallholder agriculture
Field Crops Research|2012
1.1k cit.
10
Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa
Development and Change|2006
955 cit.

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