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 India 1.4k works
- 2 United States 824 works
- 3 China 488 works
- 4 Nigeria 297 works
- 5 United Kingdom 199 works
- 6 Bangladesh 159 works
- 7 Indonesia 158 works
- 8 Ethiopia 149 works
- 9 Germany 148 works
- 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.
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.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 University of DelhiIndia 41 works
- 2 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 33 works
- 3 International Food Policy Research InstituteUnited States 25 works
- 4 University of GhanaGhana 25 works
- 5 University for Development StudiesGhana 22 works
- 6 Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia 22 works
- 7 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 21 works
- 8 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 21 works
- 9 Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 20 works
- 10 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 18 works
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 W. Neil Adger United Kingdom 3.7k citations
- 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
Where it is the local speciality
- TamaleGH · 24.8 works38×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural risk and resilience than the world average.
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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana | 79.3 | 45.8% | 17.9× | 21 | +157.7% |
| 2 | Bahir Dar UniversityEthiopia | 78.5 | 53.6% | 17.2× | 15 | +191.1% |
| 3 | Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia | 77.2 | 41.6% | 14.1× | 20 | +363.7% |
| 4 | University for Development StudiesGhana | 77.1 | 38.8% | 40.5× | 22 | +408.8% |
| 5 | Haramaya UniversityEthiopia | 66.7 | 49.9% | 23.8× | 11 | +90.1% |
| 6 | University of GhanaGhana | 65.5 | 27.5% | 19.4× | 25 | +63.5% |
| 7 | Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh | 65.5 | 37.2% | 26.1× | 15 | +106.8% |
| 8 | Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia | 64.9 | 46.8% | 12.0× | 9 | +167.3% |
| 9 | Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia | 64.0 | 18.8% | 19.0× | 22 | +226.0% |
| 10 | University of NigeriaNigeria | 63.9 | 26.8% | 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.
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.