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D-Index
68
Citations
21493
World Ranking
770
National Ranking
23

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Agronomy

Pablo Tittonell mostly deals with Agriculture, Soil fertility, Agronomy, Agroforestry and Soil quality. His study in Agriculture is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Current yield and Crop yield. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Nutrient and Limiting nutrient.

His research integrates issues of Farm income and Soil management in his study of Agroforestry. His Agricultural productivity study combines topics in areas such as Natural resource economics, Sustainable agriculture, Environmental resource management and Soil retrogression and degradation. His Conservation agriculture research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Productivity and Soil conservation.

His most cited work include:

  • Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics' view (942 citations)
  • Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics' view (942 citations)
  • Yield gap analysis with local to global relevance—A review (728 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Pablo Tittonell mainly investigates Agriculture, Agronomy, Agroforestry, Soil fertility and Soil management. His Agriculture research includes themes of Productivity and Natural resource economics. His Agronomy study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Soil water and Nutrient.

His Agroforestry study combines topics in areas such as Soil quality, Land use, Cropping, Livestock and Conservation agriculture. He has included themes like Soil conservation and Soil retrogression and degradation in his Soil quality study. His research investigates the connection between Soil fertility and topics such as Crop rotation that intersect with issues in Sorghum.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agriculture (53.42%)
  • Agronomy (52.17%)
  • Agroforestry (42.86%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Agriculture (53.42%)
  • Agronomy (52.17%)
  • Agroforestry (42.86%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His scientific interests lie mostly in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agroforestry, Intercropping and Livestock. His Agriculture research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Land use and Agricultural science. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Dry season and Soil fertility.

His biological study deals with issues like Agroecosystem, which deal with fields such as Predation and Land cover. His research in Livestock intersects with topics in Farm income and Greenhouse gas. His research in Manure tackles topics such as Nutrient which are related to areas like Crop.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Capturing farm diversity with hypothesis-based typologies : An innovative methodological framework for farming system typology development (33 citations)
  • Identification of beef production farms in the Pampas and Campos area that stand out in economic and environmental performance (20 citations)
  • Identification of beef production farms in the Pampas and Campos area that stand out in economic and environmental performance (20 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Biodiversity

Pablo Tittonell focuses on Agriculture, Agricultural science, Diversity, Land use and Livelihood. His Agricultural science research integrates issues from Cropping, Resource, Agricultural productivity and Mixed farming. His Diversity studies intersect with other disciplines such as Hierarchical clustering, Typology, Knowledge management, Multivariate analysis and Citizen journalism.

His Land use study incorporates themes from Farm income, Carbon footprint, Livestock and Grassland.

Best Publications

  • Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics' view

    Ken E. Giller;Ken E. Giller;Ernst Witter;Marc Corbeels;Marc Corbeels;Pablo Tittonell;Pablo Tittonell

  • Yield gap analysis with local to global relevance—A review

    Martin K. van Ittersum;Kenneth G. Cassman;Patricio Grassini;Joost Wolf

  • When yield gaps are poverty traps: The paradigm of ecological intensification in African smallholder agriculture

    Pablo Tittonell;Ken E. Giller

  • Ecological intensification of agriculture — sustainable by nature

    Pablo Tittonell

  • Facing up to the paradigm of ecological intensification in agronomy: Revisiting methods, concepts and knowledge

    Thierry Doré;David Makowski;Eric Malézieux;Nathalie G. Munier-Jolain

  • Communicating complexity: Integrated assessment of trade-offs concerning soil fertility management within African farming systems to support innovation and development

    K.E. Giller;P.A. Tittonell;M.C. Rufino;M.T. van Wijk

  • The diversity of rural livelihoods and their influence on soil fertility in agricultural systems of East Africa - A typology of smallholder farms

    Pablo A. Tittonell;Pablo A. Tittonell;A. Muriuki;Keith D. Shepherd;D. Mugendi

  • Exploring diversity in soil fertility management of smallholder farms in western Kenya I. Heterogeneity at region and farm scale

    P.A. Tittonell;P.A. Tittonell;B. Vanlauwe;P.A. Leffelaar;E.C. Rowe

  • Estimating soil organic carbon through loss on ignition: effects of ignition conditions and structural water loss

    M. J. J. Hoogsteen;E. A. Lantinga;E. J. Bakker;J. C. J. Groot

  • Evaluating agricultural trade-offs in the age of sustainable development

    David R. Kanter;David R. Kanter;Mark Musumba;Sylvia L.R. Wood;Sylvia L.R. Wood;Cheryl Palm;Cheryl Palm

  • Exploring diversity in soil fertility management of smallholder farms in western Kenya: II. Within-farm variability in resource allocation, nutrient flows and soil fertility status

    Pablo Adrián Tittonell;Pablo Adrián Tittonell;Bernard Vanlauwe;P.A. Leffelaar;Keith D. Shepherd

  • Closing the cassava yield gap: An analysis from smallholder farms in East Africa

    A.M. Fermont;A.M. Fermont;P.J.A. van Asten;P. Tittonell;M.T. van Wijk

  • A research agenda to explore the role of conservation agriculture in African smallholder farming systems

    Ken E. Giller;Marc Corbeels;Justice Nyamangara;Bernard Triomphe

  • Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

    Kerri L Steenwerth;Amanda K Hodson;Arnold J Bloom;Michael R Carter

  • Unravelling the effects of soil and crop management on maize productivity in smallholder agricultural systems of western Kenya—An application of classification and regression tree analysis

    Pablo A. Tittonell;Pablo A. Tittonell;Keith D. Shepherd;Bernard Vanlauwe;Ken E. Giller

  • Biodiversity, carbon stocks and sequestration potential in aboveground biomass in smallholder farming systems of western Kenya

    Matieu Henry;Pablo Tittonell;Pablo Tittonell;Raphaël Manlay;Raphaël Manlay;Martial Bernoux

  • The yield gap of major food crops in family agriculture in the tropics: Assessment and analysis through field surveys and modelling

    François Affholder;Charlotte Poeydebat;Marc Corbeels;Marc Corbeels;Eric Scopel

  • Within-farm soil fertility gradients affect response of maize to fertiliser application in western Kenya

    B. Vanlauwe;P.A. Tittonell;J. Mukalama

  • Land use change and ecosystem service provision in Pampas and Campos grasslands of southern South America

    Pablo Modernel;Pablo Modernel;Walter A.H. Rossing;Marc Corbeels;Santiago Dogliotti

  • Comparative performance of conservation agriculture and current smallholder farming practices in semi-arid Zimbabwe

    Frédéric Baudron;Pablo Tittonell;Marc Corbeels;Philippe Letourmy

  • Yield gaps, nutrient use efficiencies and response to fertilisers by maize across heterogeneous smallholder farms of western Kenya

    Pablo Tittonell;Pablo Tittonell;Bernard Vanlauwe;Marc Corbeels;Marc Corbeels;Ken E. Giller

  • Manure as a key resource within smallholder farming systems: Analysing farm-scale nutrient cycling efficiencies with the NUANCES framework

    M.C. Rufino;P.A. Tittonell;P.A. Tittonell;M.T. van Wijk;A. Castellanos-Navarrete

  • Livelihood strategies, resilience and transformability in African agroecosystems

    Pablo Tittonell

  • Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa

    Pablo Tittonell;Eric Scopel;Nadine Andrieu;Héléna Posthumus

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Corbeels
Marc Corbeels International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Ken E. Giller
Ken E. Giller Wageningen University & Research
Paul Mapfumo
Paul Mapfumo University of Zimbabwe
Mariana C. Rufino
Mariana C. Rufino Lancaster University
Bernard Vanlauwe
Bernard Vanlauwe International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Johannes Scholberg
Johannes Scholberg Wageningen University & Research
Felix J.J.A. Bianchi
Felix J.J.A. Bianchi Wageningen University & Research
M.T. van Wijk
M.T. van Wijk International Livestock Research Institute
Mario Herrero
Mario Herrero Cornell University
Bruno Gérard
Bruno Gérard Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

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