| Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing deforestation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 622 |
| Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults | Lancet, The | 2008 | 481 |
| Anatomy of a crisis: the causes and consequences of surging food prices | Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom) | 2008 | 326 |
| Drivers of change in global agriculture | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2008 | 280 |
| Dietary diversity is a good predictor of the micronutrient density of the diet of 6- to 23-month-old children in Madagascar | Journal of Nutrition | 2008 | 175 |
| A spatially explicit assessment of current and future hotspots of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of global change | Global and Planetary Change | 2008 | 155 |
| Impact of cooperatives on smallholders' commercialization behavior: evidence from Ethiopia | Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom) | 2008 | 151 |
| Adaptability and adaptations of California’s water supply system to dry climate warming | Climatic Change | 2008 | 128 |
| Migration and household investment in rural China | China Economic Review | 2008 | 116 |
| Investment, subsidies, and pro-poor growth in rural India | Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom) | 2008 | 113 |
| Age-based preventive targeting of food assistance and behaviour change and communication for reduction of childhood undernutrition in Haiti: a cluster randomised trial | Lancet, The | 2008 | 110 |
| Agro-food industry growth and obesity in China: what role for regulating food advertising and promotion and nutrition labelling? | Obesity Reviews | 2008 | 100 |
| Estimating returns to soil conservation adoption in the northern Ethiopian highlands | Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom) | 2008 | 96 |
| Regional road development, rural and urban poverty: Evidence from China | Transport Policy | 2008 | 90 |
| An innovation systems perspective on strengthening agricultural education and training in sub-Saharan Africa | Agricultural Systems | 2008 | 88 |
| When could payments for environmental services benefit the poor? | Environment and Development Economics | 2008 | 87 |
| What determines farmers’ resilience towards ENSO-related drought? An empirical assessment in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia | Climatic Change | 2008 | 80 |
| The value of the high Aswan Dam to the Egyptian economy | Ecological Economics | 2008 | 69 |
| Potential impacts of iron biofortification in India | Social Science and Medicine | 2008 | 68 |
| Gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda | Journal of International Development | 2008 | 68 |
| Cohort Profile: the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) Nutrition Trial Cohort Study | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2008 | 64 |
| Impact of famine during pregnancy and infancy on health in adulthood | Obesity Reviews | 2008 | 62 |
| Integrating nutrition security with treatment of people living with HIV: lessons from Kenya | Food and Nutrition Bulletin | 2008 | 62 |
| Maternal zinc supplementation and growth in Peruvian infants | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2008 | 61 |
| Higher fuel and food prices: impacts and responses for Mozambique | Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom) | 2008 | 61 |
