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selected publications journal article Bearing the costs of a climate-safe food transition.. Nature Food. 11-12. 2026 Different places, different challenges: mapping global variations in agrifood-system burdens. Environmental Research Letters. 124051-124051. 2025 Exposure of global agricultural lands to extreme weather using CMIP6 projections of future climate. Environmental Research Letters. 124077-124077. 2025 High-resolution wall-to-wall time series of seasonal maize area and yield for Rwanda over 2019–2023. Environmental Research: Food Systems. 045003-045003. 2025 Global inequality in environmental conditions underpinning human rights. Environmental Research Communications. 2025 Global agricultural lands in the year 2015. Earth System Science Data. 3473-3496. 2025 Asset stranding could open new pathways to food systems transformation. Nature Food. 440-445. 2025 Exploring the role of a social carrier in advancing agroecology and territorial autonomy. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 587-612. 2025 Incorporate climate injustice into carbon labels. Nature Human Behaviour. 237-239. 2025 Current food trade helps mitigate future climate change impacts in lower-income nations. PLoS ONE. 2025 Nutrition-sensitive climate risk across food production systems. Environmental Research Letters. 2025 A modelled estimate of food access within countries shows that inequality within countries has increased despite rising equality between countries. Global Food Security. 2024 Landscape and management influences on smallholder agroforestry yields show shifts during a climate shock. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 2024 Larger nations benefit more than smaller nations from the stabilizing effects of crop diversity. Nature Food. 2024 Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms (vol 4, pg pages651, 2021). Nature Sustainability. 682-682. 2024 Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture. Science. 87-93. 2024 Biodiversity-production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2024 Assessing the Performance of Satellite-Based Models for Crop Yield Estimation in the Canadian Prairies. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 2023 Likely decline in the number of farms globally by the middle of the century. Nature Sustainability. 949-954. 2023 Against the odds: Network and institutional pathways enabling agricultural diversification. One Earth. 479-491. 2023 Sims-style ‘digital twin’ models can tell us if food systems will weather crises. Nature. 189-189. 2023 How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields?. Environmental Research Letters. 2023 Matches and mismatches between the global distribution of major food crops and climate suitability. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 2022 Food security: embed equity in new targets. Nature. 472-472. 2022 Research priorities for global food security under extreme events. One Earth. 756-+. 2022 On the relative importance of climatic and non-climatic factors in crop yield models. Climatic Change. 2022 Functional connectivity of the world's protected areas. Science. 1101-+. 2022 Shifting baselines and biodiversity success stories. Nature. E17-E18. 2022 How to buffer against an urban food shortage. Nature. 175-176. 2021 Digital technology helps remove gender bias in academia. Scientometrics. 4073-4081. 2021 More farms, less specialized landscapes, and higher crop diversity stabilize food supplies. Environmental Research Letters. 055015-055015. 2021 Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms. Nature Sustainability. 651-657. 2021 Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat. Conservation Letters. 2021 The global divide in data-driven farming. Nature Sustainability. 154-160. 2020 Hunger in Africa: get the costing right. Nature. 500-500. 2020 A scoping review of research funding for small-scale farmers in water scarce regions. Nature Sustainability. 836-844. 2020 Livestock policy for sustainable development. Nature Food. 160-165. 2020 Food system collapse. Nature Climate Change. 16-17. 2020 TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology. 119-188. 2020 Synchronized failure of global crop production.. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 780-786. 2019 Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable. Science. 341-+. 2019 The challenge of feeding the world while conserving half the planet. Nature Sustainability. 409-412. 2018 Smallholders need access to big-data agronomy too. Nature. 30-30. 2018 Protecting the origins of coffee to safeguard its future. Nature Plants. 2017 Restoration: avoid arbitrary baselines. Nature. 469-469. 2016
geographic focus Africa Continent Americas Transnational Region Asia Continent Europe Continent Oceania Transnational Region
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