2. Zero hunger

Zero Hunger

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

As of 10 March 2021

Times Higher Education (THE), Vertigo Ventures and Elsevier collaborated on search queries representing the research in the first 16 SDGs. These search queries are what THE uses to score the research component of each SDG Impact Rank. Full details of the methodology for each SDG search query are available on Mendeley.

You can see research highlights from SDG 2: Zero hunger below. We gathered these from the Elsevier products Scopus or SciVal. Unless otherwise noted, we use a timeframe of 2015-2020.

SDG 2 Word cloud

^{Top 50 Key phrases in the SDG 2 related research. The larger the word, the higher frequency of occurrence. Green indicates increasing in occurrence, and blue indicates decreasing.}^{Source: SciVal}

Top 5 research funders ¹

National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Basic Research Program of China (Program 973)
National Science Foundation
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
CAPES

^{1 The top 5 funders of the SDG 2 related research from Scopus for the years 2015-present.}

Top 5 Global Corporations ²

^{2 The corporations with the most SDG 2 research according to SciVal.}

UN Designated SDG 2 Academic Hub

University of Pretoria South Africa

The University of Pretoria (UP) is one of five research-intensive universities in South Africa with more than 48,000 enrolled students. The university hosts many SDG 2-related Institutes and Centers and collaborates widely with South African, African and international institutions.

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Top research institutions per continent ³

Africa - University of KwaZulu-Natal
Asia Pacific - China Agricultural University
Europe - Wageningen University & Research
Middle East - Islamic Azad University
North America - University of Florida
South America - Universidade de São Paulo

^{3 The institution with the most SDG 2 research in each continent according to SciVal}

Top 3 most prolific authors ⁴

Rattan Lal
The Ohio State University, Columbus

Topic	Document count
1. Soil Organic Carbon; Soil Aggregates; Carbon Sinks	58
2. Nitrous Oxide Production; Nitrification Inhibitors; Soil Emission	9
3. Crop Models; CERES (Experiment); Climate Change Impact	7

Most recent article related to this SDG:

“When does nutrient management sequester more carbon in soils and produce high and stable grain yields in China?”

Waqas, M. A., Li, Y., Lal, R., Wang, X., Shi, S., Zhu, Y., . . . Liu, S. (2020). When does nutrient management sequester more carbon in soils and produce high and stable grain yields in china? Land Degradation and Development, 31(15), 1926-1941. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.3567

When does nutrient management sequester more carbon in soils and produce high and stable grain yields in China?

Hussien Ali Shimelis
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban

Topic	Document count
1. Sweetpotato; Ipomoea Batatas; Sweet Potato Feathery Mottle Virus	17
2. Biplot; Main Effect; Ammi	8
3. Eragrostis Tef; Glutens; Digitaria Exilis	8

Most recent article related to this SDG:

“Assessing the genetic diversity of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] germplasm collections using phenotypic traits and SNP markers” open access

Nkhoma, N., Shimelis, H., Laing, M. D., Shayanowako, A., & Mathew, I. (2020). Assessing the genetic diversity of cowpea [vigna unguiculata (L.) walp.] germplasm collections using phenotypic traits and SNP markers. BMC Genetics, 21(1) DOI: 10.1186/s12863-020-00914-7

Assessing the genetic diversity of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] germplasm collections using phenotypic traits and SNP markers

J. C. Zanuncio
Federal University of Viçosa, Vicosa

Topic	Document count
1. Anthocoridae; Podisus Nigrispinus; Orius	22
2. Eulophidae; Trichospilus; Tetrastichus	17
3. Leptocybe Invasa; Thaumastocoridae; Peregrinus	10

Most recent article related to this SDG:

“Reproductive Potential and Biological Characteristics of the Parasitoid Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) Depending on Parasitoid-Host Ratio”
open access

Kassab, S. O., Barbosa, M. S., Pereira, F. F., Rossoni, C., Pastori, P. L., Lucchetta, J. T., . . . Zanuncio, J. C. (2020). Reproductive potential and biological characteristics of the parasitoid cotesia flavipes (hymenoptera: Braconidae) in diatraea saccharalis (lepidoptera: Crambidae) depending on parasitoid-host ratio. Florida Entomologist, 103(3), 316-320. DOI: 10.1653 / 024.103.030

Reproductive Potential and Biological Characteristics of the Parasitoid Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) Depending on Parasitoid-Host Ratio

^{4 The top 3 authors with the most SDG 2 research according to SciVal.}

^{5 A Topic is a collection of documents with a common focused intellectual interest. Scopus publications are clustered into Topics based upon a direct citation analysis.}^{Learn more}^.

THE Impact Rankings Methodology: SDG 2

The methodology THE uses to determine the rank for this SDG is shown here.

The 27% Research portion breaks down into:

Proportion of research papers in the top 10 per cent of journals as defined by Citescore 10,0%
Field-weighted citation impact of papers 10,0%
Number of publications 7,0%

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