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Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development is a research topic within General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of agroecology, food sovereignty, and global land grabbing, with a focus on sustainable agriculture, smallholder farmers, and the political economy of agrarian change. It delves into the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization, climate change resilience, and the empowerment of peasant movements in shaping the future of food systems.

  • Agroecology
  • Food Sovereignty
  • Land Grabbing
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Globalization
  • Smallholder Farmers
  • Agrarian Change
  • Political Economy
  • Climate Change Resilience
  • Peasant Movements
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Which countries lead Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (805 and 592 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 805 works
  2. 2 Brazil 592 works
  3. 3 India 392 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 342 works
  5. 5 China 295 works
  6. 6 France 294 works
  7. 7 Germany 251 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 168 works
  9. 9 Argentina 161 works
  10. 10 Canada 156 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.

United States: 23.3%Brazil: 17.1%India: 11.4%United Kingdom: 9.9%6 others listed: 38.3%23%largest
United States805 · 23.3%Brazil592 · 17.1%India392 · 11.4%United Kingdom342 · 9.9%6 others listed1,325 · 38.3%

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

Which institutions lead Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development research, followed by Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 67 works
  2. 2 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 60 works
  3. 3 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 51 works
  4. 4 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 43 works
  5. 5 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 37 works
  6. 6 CGIARFrance 34 works
  7. 7 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 26 works
  8. 8 Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le DéveloppementFrance 26 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 25 works
  10. 10 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development include Carl Folke, André M. N. Renzaho and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

  1. 1 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  2. 2 André M. N. Renzaho Australia 168k citations
  3. 3 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  4. 4 Элинор Остром United States 149k citations
  5. 5 Bruno Latour France 129k citations

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

What are the most cited papers in Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development?

The most cited paper in Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development is "Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity" (Éric F. Lambin, Patrick Meyfroidt, 2011), with 3,162 citations. Next come "Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification" (2,083) and "The Number, Size, and Distribution of Farms, Smallholder Farms, and Family Farms Worldwide" (2,013).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity Éric F. Lambin, Patrick Meyfroidt · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 14 Feb 2011 3,162
2 Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification Teja Tscharntke, Yann Clough, Thomas Cherico Wanger et al. · Biological Conservation Open access 12 Mar 2012 2,083
3 The Number, Size, and Distribution of Farms, Smallholder Farms, and Family Farms Worldwide Sarah K. Lowder, Jakob Skoet, Terri L. Raney · World Development Open access 9 Feb 2016 2,013
4 Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance F. G. Bailey · Pacific Affairs Jun 1987 1,901
5 Livelihoods perspectives and rural development Ian Scoones · The Journal of Peasant Studies Open access 2009 1,873
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development research done?

The largest centres of Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development research in 2022-now are Paris (France), London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wageningen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 104 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 81 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 80 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 80 works
  5. 5 Buenos AiresArgentina 77 works
  6. 6 New DelhiIndia 65 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 60 works
  8. 8 MontpellierFrance 51 works
  9. 9 Mexico CityMexico 47 works
  10. 10 WageningenNetherlands 44 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WageningenNL · 44.0 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Lund 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%mean 24.43%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Erasmus University R…Wageningen Universit…Humboldt-Universität…Lund University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 75.023.0%24.0×43 -14.4%
2Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 68.735.0%5.8×15 +50.9%
3Lund UniversitySweden 61.019.4%6.9×20 +35.7%
4Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 58.723.0%7.8×14 +125.5%
5China Agricultural UniversityChina 58.326.1%4.7×13 +34.9%
6University of SussexUnited Kingdom 56.516.9%14.6×18 +0.9%
7University of CopenhagenDenmark 56.423.4%3.1×15 +50.7%
8London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 55.421.7%12.3×15 +79.1%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 54.636.6%0.7×9 +82.8%
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 53.919.2%2.6×18 +9.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, country by country

Is Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development10.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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