Navin Ramankutty

University of British Columbia — Canada

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

87h-index82.5kcitations277works3.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Land Use and Ecosystem Services(51), Climate change impacts on agriculture(30), Climate variability and models(28), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(25), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact(23)

Publications277 total

Creating Communities to Help Interdisciplinary Scientists Thrive
Eos·2026Open Access
Global dataset on mean farm size reveals important subnational variability
Environmental Research Food Systems·2026Open Access
Different places, different challenges: mapping global variations in agrifood-system burdens
Environmental Research Letters·2025Open Access
Dietary GHG emissions from 2.7 billion people already exceed the personal carbon footprint needed to achieve the 2 °C climate goal
Environmental Research Food Systems·2025Open Access
The distinct drivers of diversification and job quality on BC organic vegetable farms
Agriculture and Human Values·2025· 1 cited
Exposure of global agricultural lands to extreme weather using CMIP6 projections of future climate
2025Open Access
How cities source their food: spatial interactions in West African urban food supply
Food Security·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Tackling Policy Leakage and Targeting Hot Spots Could Be Key to Addressing the “Wicked” Challenge of Nutrient Pollution from Corn Production in the United States
2024Open Access
A modelled estimate of food access within countries shows that inequality within countries has increased despite rising equality between countries
Global Food Security·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms
Nature Sustainability·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 36 citedOpen Access
Beyond equivalency: comparing governance and sustainability of three North American organic standards
Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Both technological innovations and cultural change are key to a sustainability transition
PLoS Biology·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Focus on global–local–global analysis of sustainability
Environmental Research Letters·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Tackling policy leakage and targeting hotspots could be key to addressing the ‘Wicked’ challenge of nutrient pollution from corn production in the U.S.
Environmental Research Letters·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Assessing the Performance of Satellite-Based Models for Crop Yield Estimation in the Canadian Prairies
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Key role of planted and harvested area fluctuations in US crop production shocks
Nature Sustainability·2023· 35 cited
GEnZ explorer: a tool for visualizing agroclimate to inform research and regulatory risk assessment
Transgenic Research·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Biodiversity-production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
The missing markets link in global-to-local-to-global analyses of biodiversity and ecosystem services
Environmental Research Letters·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jonathan A. Foley(23), Ruth DeFries(6), Chad Monfreda(6), Christopher J. Kucharik(4), I. Colin Prentice(4), Matt Johnston(4), Elena M. Bennett(4), Carol Barford(3), Michael T. Coe(3), Holly Gibbs(3), P. K. Snyder(3), James Gerber(3), Nathaniel D. Mueller(3), D. K. Ray(3), Paul West(3), Stefan Siebert(3), Richard Betts(3), Verena Seufert(3), Frédéric Achard(3), Erle C. Ellis(3)