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Agricultural risk and resilience

Agricultural risk and resilience is a research topic within Soil Science. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 25.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of risk management, vulnerability, and resilience in agricultural contexts, particularly focusing on the impact of weather shocks, social networks, and insurance on poverty, food security, and household welfare in rural economies.

  • Risk Management
  • Vulnerability
  • Agriculture
  • Insurance
  • Poverty
  • Weather Shocks
  • Social Networks
  • Household Resilience
  • Food Security
  • Rural Economies
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
25.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+50%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Agricultural risk and resilience research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 824 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 India 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 824 works
  3. 3 China 488 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 297 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 199 works
  6. 6 Bangladesh 159 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 158 works
  8. 8 Ethiopia 149 works
  9. 9 Germany 148 works
  10. 10 South Africa 144 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India: 35.2%United States: 20.8%China: 12.3%Nigeria: 7.5%6 others listed: 24.1%35%largest
India1,395 · 35.2%United States824 · 20.8%China488 · 12.3%Nigeria297 · 7.5%6 others listed957 · 24.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Agricultural risk and resilience research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Delhi publishes the most Agricultural risk and resilience research, followed by Tribhuvan University and International Food Policy Research Institute.

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural risk and resilience?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural risk and resilience include W. Neil Adger and Angus Deaton.

  1. 1 W. Neil Adger United Kingdom 3.7k citations
  2. 2 Angus Deaton United States 3.4k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Agricultural risk and resilience research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural risk and resilience research in 2022–2025 are New Delhi (India), Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States) and Dhaka (Bangladesh). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tamale.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New Delhi India 171 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 122 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C. United States 104 works
  4. 4 Dhaka Bangladesh 83 works
  5. 5 Nairobi Kenya 69 works
  6. 6 Bengaluru India 68 works
  7. 7 London United Kingdom 59 works
  8. 8 Hyderabad India 52 works
  9. 9 Mumbai India 51 works
  10. 10 Accra Ghana 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TamaleGH · 24.8 works38×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural risk and resilience than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agricultural risk and resilience?

Among universities, judged by research, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Bahir Dar University and Addis Ababa University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 38.68%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology: 21, 45.8%Bahir Dar University: 15, 53.6%Addis Ababa University: 20, 41.6%University for Development Studies: 22, 38.8%Haramaya University: 11, 49.9%University of Ghana: 25, 27.5%Bangladesh Agricultural University: 15, 37.2%Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research: 9, 46.8%Jawaharlal Nehru University: 22, 18.8%University of Nigeria: 16, 26.8%Bahir Dar UniversityKwame Nkrumah Univer…Addis Ababa UniversityUniversity for Devel…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 79.345.8%17.9×21 +157.7%
2 Bahir Dar UniversityEthiopia 78.553.6%17.2×15 +191.1%
3 Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 77.241.6%14.1×20 +363.7%
4 University for Development StudiesGhana 77.138.8%40.5×22 +408.8%
5 Haramaya UniversityEthiopia 66.749.9%23.8×11 +90.1%
6 University of GhanaGhana 65.527.5%19.4×25 +63.5%
7 Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 65.537.2%26.1×15 +106.8%
8 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 64.946.8%12.0×9 +167.3%
9 Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia 64.018.8%19.0×22 +226.0%
10 University of NigeriaNigeria 63.926.8%10.1×16 +163.3%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Agricultural risk and resilience research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 50% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural risk and resilience.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.