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| 1 | Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions | Nature Food | 2021 | 1,208 |
| 2 | A meta-analysis of projected global food demand and population at risk of hunger for the period 2010–2050 | Nature Food | 2021 | 742 |
| 3 | Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods | Nature Food | 2021 | 394 |
| 4 | Scientific, sustainability and regulatory challenges of cultured meat | Nature Food | 2020 | 386 |
| 5 | Consumer acceptance of novel food technologies | Nature Food | 2020 | 362 |
| 6 | Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models | Nature Food | 2021 | 340 |
| 7 | Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century | Nature Food | 2022 | 333 |
| 8 | Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system | Nature Food | 2020 | 324 |
| 9 | Microplastic release from the degradation of polypropylene feeding bottles during infant formula preparation | Nature Food | 2020 | 323 |
| 10 | Design principles of food gels | Nature Food | 2020 | 299 |
| 11 | Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens | Nature Food | 2020 | 276 |
| 12 | Technology readiness and overcoming barriers to sustainably implement nanotechnology-enabled plant agriculture | Nature Food | 2020 | 274 |
| 13 | Climate change responses benefit from a global food system approach | Nature Food | 2020 | 271 |
| 14 | Textured soy protein scaffolds enable the generation of three-dimensional bovine skeletal muscle tissue for cell-based meat | Nature Food | 2020 | 236 |
| 15 | Planet-proofing the global food system | Nature Food | 2020 | 233 |
| 16 | Towards food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks | Nature Food | 2021 | 211 |
| 17 | Current status and future challenges in implementing and upscaling vertical farming systems | Nature Food | 2021 | 207 |
| 18 | The unmapped chemical complexity of our diet | Nature Food | 2020 | 192 |
| 19 | Urbanization can benefit agricultural production with large-scale farming in China | Nature Food | 2021 | 192 |
| 20 | Nitrogen emissions along global livestock supply chains | Nature Food | 2020 | 185 |
| 21 | China’s food loss and waste embodies increasing environmental impacts | Nature Food | 2021 | 182 |
| 22 | Global adoption of novel aquaculture feeds could substantially reduce forage fish demand by 2030 | Nature Food | 2020 | 174 |
| 23 | Principles, drivers and opportunities of a circular bioeconomy | Nature Food | 2021 | 165 |
| 24 | Pathways for advancing pesticide policies | Nature Food | 2020 | 157 |
| 25 | Air quality, nitrogen use efficiency and food security in China are improved by cost-effective agricultural nitrogen management | Nature Food | 2020 | 154 |
| 26 | Actions now can curb food systems fallout from COVID-19 | Nature Food | 2020 | 151 |
| 27 | Game-changing potential of the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy | Nature Food | 2020 | 147 |
| 28 | Extreme climate events increase risk of global food insecurity and adaptation needs | Nature Food | 2021 | 146 |
| 29 | 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 | 140 |
| 30 | The COVID-19 crisis will exacerbate maternal and child undernutrition and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries | Nature Food | 2021 | 136 |
| 31 | Crop cover is more important than rotational diversity for soil multifunctionality and cereal yields in European cropping systems | Nature Food | 2021 | 136 |
| 32 | Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric evaporative demand is important for accurately predicting US maize yields | Nature Food | 2020 | 135 |
| 33 | Vulnerability of the United Kingdom’s food supply chains exposed by COVID-19 | Nature Food | 2020 | 132 |
| 34 | A CRISPR way for accelerating improvement of food crops | Nature Food | 2020 | 130 |
| 35 | The Food Systems Dashboard is a new tool to inform better food policy | Nature Food | 2020 | 129 |
| 36 | Modelling the global economic consequences of a major African swine fever outbreak in China | Nature Food | 2020 | 126 |
| 37 | The problem with growing corporate concentration and power in the global food system | Nature Food | 2021 | 126 |
| 38 | The urgency of food system transformation is now irrefutable | Nature Food | 2020 | 125 |
| 39 | Quantification of global and national nitrogen budgets for crop production | Nature Food | 2021 | 125 |
| 40 | Nitrogen pollution policy beyond the farm | Nature Food | 2020 | 124 |
| 41 | Sustainable aquaculture through the One Health lens | Nature Food | 2020 | 124 |
| 42 | Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yields | Nature Food | 2021 | 122 |
| 43 | Ozone pollution threatens the production of major staple crops in East Asia | Nature Food | 2022 | 120 |
| 44 | Consolidation of agricultural land can contribute to agricultural sustainability in China | Nature Food | 2021 | 120 |
| 45 | Transgenic rice overproducing Rubisco exhibits increased yields with improved nitrogen-use efficiency in an experimental paddy field | Nature Food | 2020 | 119 |
| 46 | Local food crop production can fulfil demand for less than one-third of the population | Nature Food | 2020 | 114 |
| 47 | Livestock policy for sustainable development | Nature Food | 2020 | 110 |
| 48 | Global food-miles account for nearly 20% of total food-systems emissions | Nature Food | 2022 | 110 |
| 49 | Food production in China requires intensified measures to be consistent with national and provincial environmental boundaries | Nature Food | 2020 | 106 |
| 50 | Optimization of China’s maize and soy production can ensure feed sufficiency at lower nitrogen and carbon footprints | Nature Food | 2021 | 106 |
