| 1 | Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions | Nature Food | 2021 | 1,760 |
| 2 | A meta-analysis of projected global food demand and population at risk of hunger for the period 2010–2050 | Nature Food | 2021 | 1,346 |
| 3 | Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century | Nature Food | 2021 | 650 |
| 4 | Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods | Nature Food | 2021 | 587 |
| 5 | Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models | Nature Food | 2021 | 583 |
| 6 | Consumer acceptance of novel food technologies | Nature Food | 2020 | 509 |
| 7 | Scientific, sustainability and regulatory challenges of cultured meat | Nature Food | 2020 | 464 |
| 8 | Microplastic release from the degradation of polypropylene feeding bottles during infant formula preparation | Nature Food | 2020 | 425 |
| 9 | Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens | Nature Food | 2020 | 400 |
| 10 | Design principles of food gels | Nature Food | 2020 | 389 |
| 11 | Technology readiness and overcoming barriers to sustainably implement nanotechnology-enabled plant agriculture | Nature Food | 2020 | 336 |
| 12 | Current status and future challenges in implementing and upscaling vertical farming systems | Nature Food | 2021 | 325 |
| 13 | Urbanization can benefit agricultural production with large-scale farming in China | Nature Food | 2021 | 311 |
| 14 | Towards food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks | Nature Food | 2020 | 288 |
| 15 | Textured soy protein scaffolds enable the generation of three-dimensional bovine skeletal muscle tissue for cell-based meat | Nature Food | 2020 | 276 |
| 16 | China’s food loss and waste embodies increasing environmental impacts | Nature Food | 2021 | 270 |
| 17 | Extreme climate events increase risk of global food insecurity and adaptation needs | Nature Food | 2021 | 251 |
| 18 | Consolidation of agricultural land can contribute to agricultural sustainability in China | Nature Food | 2021 | 244 |
| 19 | Air quality, nitrogen use efficiency and food security in China are improved by cost-effective agricultural nitrogen management | Nature Food | 2020 | 222 |
| 20 | Nitrogen emissions along global livestock supply chains | Nature Food | 2020 | 219 |
| 21 | Ozone pollution threatens the production of major staple crops in East Asia | Nature Food | 2022 | 217 |
| 22 | Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yields | Nature Food | 2021 | 215 |
| 23 | Global adoption of novel aquaculture feeds could substantially reduce forage fish demand by 2030 | Nature Food | 2020 | 208 |
| 24 | Quantification of global and national nitrogen budgets for crop production | Nature Food | 2021 | 199 |
| 25 | Crop cover is more important than rotational diversity for soil multifunctionality and cereal yields in European cropping systems | Nature Food | 2021 | 196 |
| 26 | Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts | Nature Food | 2023 | 186 |
| 27 | Global food-miles account for nearly 20% of total food-systems emissions | Nature Food | 2022 | 183 |
| 28 | Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric evaporative demand is important for accurately predicting US maize yields | Nature Food | 2020 | 177 |
| 29 | Nanobiotechnology-based strategies for enhanced crop stress resilience | Nature Food | 2022 | 168 |
| 30 | Global dietary quality in 185 countries from 1990 to 2018 show wide differences by nation, age, education, and urbanicity | Nature Food | 2022 | 162 |
| 31 | The urgency of food system transformation is now irrefutable | Nature Food | 2020 | 156 |
| 32 | Food production in China requires intensified measures to be consistent with national and provincial environmental boundaries | Nature Food | 2020 | 156 |
| 33 | Dietary change in high-income nations alone can lead to substantial double climate dividend | Nature Food | 2022 | 150 |
| 34 | A serum-free media formulation for cultured meat production supports bovine satellite cell differentiation in the absence of serum starvation | Nature Food | 2022 | 147 |
| 35 | Optimization of China’s maize and soy production can ensure feed sufficiency at lower nitrogen and carbon footprints | Nature Food | 2021 | 144 |
| 36 | A scoping review of the contributions of farmers’ organizations to smallholder agriculture | Nature Food | 2020 | 142 |
| 37 | Extreme rainfall reduces one-twelfth of China’s rice yield over the last two decades | Nature Food | 2023 | 142 |
| 38 | Local food crop production can fulfil demand for less than one-third of the population | Nature Food | 2020 | 140 |
| 39 | A hybrid inorganic–biological artificial photosynthesis system for energy-efficient food production | Nature Food | 2022 | 140 |
| 40 | Food system by-products upcycled in livestock and aquaculture feeds can increase global food supply | Nature Food | 2022 | 140 |
| 41 | Global mapping of crop-specific emission factors highlights hotspots of nitrous oxide mitigation | Nature Food | 2021 | 132 |
| 42 | Modelling the global economic consequences of a major African swine fever outbreak in China | Nature Food | 2020 | 131 |
| 43 | Global food systems transitions have enabled affordable diets but had less favourable outcomes for nutrition, environmental health, inclusion and equity | Nature Food | 2022 | 129 |
| 44 | Transgenic rice overproducing Rubisco exhibits increased yields with improved nitrogen-use efficiency in an experimental paddy field | Nature Food | 2020 | 128 |
| 45 | Land-based climate change mitigation measures can affect agricultural markets and food security | Nature Food | 2022 | 127 |
| 46 | Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection | Nature Food | 2022 | 126 |
| 47 | Machine learning-enabled non-destructive paper chromogenic array detection of multiplexed viable pathogens on food | Nature Food | 2021 | 125 |
| 48 | Stimulation of ambient energy generated electric field on crop plant growth | Nature Food | 2022 | 124 |
| 49 | Southeast Asia must narrow down the yield gap to continue to be a major rice bowl | Nature Food | 2022 | 123 |
| 50 | Spontaneous immortalization of chicken fibroblasts generates stable, high-yield cell lines for serum-free production of cultured meat | Nature Food | 2022 | 123 |
