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Kenya
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
9687
World Ranking
6314
National Ranking
87

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Kenya Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Kenya Leader Award

Overview

Henry Neufeldt is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, primarily within agricultural and environmental sciences. The main fields of study include Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Subfields of focus include Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Forestry, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Horticulture.

The scientist's research topics address a variety of issues related to agriculture, ecosystems, and climate. These include:

  • Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability

Neufeldt has published several recent papers in recognized academic venues. Selected papers include:

  • Climate change adaptation through agroforestry: opportunities and gaps, 2023, published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises, 2023, published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Asset-Based Adaptation Project Promotes Tree and Shrub Diversity and Above-Ground Carbon Stocks in Smallholder Agroforestry Systems in Western Kenya, 2022, published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Modelling adaptation and transformative adaptation in cropping systems: recent advances and future directions, 2023, published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Alexandre Magnan, Lars Christiansen, Aidan D. Farrell, Amy Quandt, and Kayla Gorman.

Neufeldt has contributed to book publications, notably the Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water - As fires and floods hit the poor hardest, it is time for the world to step up adaptation actions published by United Nations Environment Programme eBooks in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Climate-smart agriculture for food security

    Leslie Lipper;Philip Thornton;Philip Thornton;Bruce M. Campbell;Bruce M. Campbell;Tobias Baedeker

  • Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets

    Robert J. Zomer;Henry Neufeldt;Jianchu Xu;Antje Ahrends

  • Agroforestry solutions to address food security and climate change challenges in Africa

    Cheikh Mbow;Meine Van Noordwijk;Eike Luedeling;Henry Neufeldt

  • Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2 °C target

    Eva Wollenberg;Eva Wollenberg;Meryl Richards;Meryl Richards;Pete Smith;Petr Havlik

  • Allometric equations for estimating biomass in agricultural landscapes: I. Aboveground biomass

    Shem Kuyah;Shem Kuyah;Johannes Dietz;Catherine Muthuri;Catherine Muthuri;Ramni Jamnadass

  • Reducing subsistence farmers’ vulnerability to climate change: evaluating the potential contributions of agroforestry in western Kenya

    Tannis Thorlakson;Henry Neufeldt;Henry Neufeldt

  • Beyond climate-smart agriculture: toward safe operating spaces for global food systems

    Henry Neufeldt;Molly Jahn;Bruce M. Campbell;Bruce M. Campbell;John R. Beddington

  • Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from East Africa

    Patti Kristjanson;Henry Neufeldt;Anja Gassner;Joash Mango

  • The potential of agroforestry in the provision of sustainable woodfuel in sub-Saharan Africa

    Miyuki Iiyama;Henry Neufeldt;Philip Dobie;Mary Njenga;Mary Njenga

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural land use in Germany— a synthesis of available annual field data

    Hermann F. Jungkunst;Annette Freibauer;Henry Neufeldt;Georg Bareth

  • The role of agroforestry in building livelihood resilience to floods and drought in semiarid Kenya

    Amy Kathryn Quandt;Henry Neufeldt;J. Terrence McCabe

  • Climate change adaptation through agroforestry: opportunities and gaps

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  • Texture and land-use effects on soil organic matter in Cerrado Oxisols, Central Brazil

    Henry Neufeldt;Dimas V.S Resck;Miguel A Ayarza

  • Agroforestry with N2-fixing trees: Sustainable development's friend or foe?

    T.S. Rosenstock;K.L. Tully;C. Arias-Navarro;Henry Neufeldt

  • Building livelihood resilience: what role does agroforestry play?

    Amy Quandt;Henry Neufeldt;J. Terrence McCabe

  • Partitioning the contributions of biochar properties to enhanced biological nitrogen fixation in common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris )

    David T. Güereña;Johannes Lehmann;Janice E. Thies;Akio Enders

  • Is conservation agriculture ‘climate-smart’ for maize farmers in the highlands of Tanzania?

    Anthony A. Kimaro;Mathew Mpanda;Janie Rioux;Ermias Aynekulu

  • Land-use effects on phosphorus fractions in cerrado oxisols

    Henry Neufeldt;J.E. da Silva;Miguel Angel Ayarza;W. Zech

  • Aggregate size distribution in a biochar-amended tropical Ultisol under conventional hand-hoe tillage.

    Bernard Fungo;Johannes Lehmann;Karsten Kalbitz;Margaret Thionģo

  • Farmers’ Strategies for Adapting to and Mitigating Climate Variability and Change through Agroforestry in Ethiopia and Kenya

    Badege Bishaw;Henry Neufeldt;Jeremias Mowo;Abdu Abdelkadir

  • How trees and people can co-adapt to climate change: reducing vulnerability in multifunctional landscapes.

    M. van Noordwijk;M. H. Hoang;H. Neufeldt;I. Öborn

  • Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land

    Robert J. Zomer;Henry Neufeldt;Jianchu Xu;Antje Ahrends

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Zech
Wolfgang Zech University of Bayreuth
Bruce M. Campbell
Bruce M. Campbell Wageningen University & Research
Johannes Lehmann
Johannes Lehmann Cornell University
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Eva K. Wollenberg
Eva K. Wollenberg University of Vermont
Philip K. Thornton
Philip K. Thornton Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Andy Jarvis
Andy Jarvis Bezos Earth Fund
Ottmar Edenhofer
Ottmar Edenhofer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Eike Luedeling
Eike Luedeling University of Bonn

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