| Farmer participatory research: rhetoric and reality. C Okali, J Sumberg, J Farrington Farmer participatory research: rhetoric and reality., 1994 | 433* | 1994 |
| Food production, urban areas and policy responses F Ellis, J Sumberg World Development 26 (2), 213-225, 1998 | 281 | 1998 |
| Systems of innovation theory and the changing architecture of agricultural research in Africa J Sumberg Food policy 30 (1), 21-41, 2005 | 208 | 2005 |
| Your terroir and my ‘action space’: implications of differentiation, mobility and diversification for the approche terroir in Sahelian West Africa T Painter, J Sumberg, T Price Africa 64 (04), 447-464, 1994 | 175 | 1994 |
| Farmers' experiments: creating local knowledge. J Sumberg, C Okali Farmers' experiments: creating local knowledge., 1997 | 161 | 1997 |
| Agricultural research in the face of diversity, local knowledge and the participation imperative: theoretical considerations J Sumberg, C Okali, D Reece Agricultural systems 76 (2), 739-753, 2003 | 143 | 2003 |
| Increasing violent conflict between herders and farmers in Africa: claims and evidence K Hussein, J Sumberg, D Seddon Development Policy Review 17 (4), 397-418, 1999 | 142 | 1999 |
| A review of the evaluation and use of tropical forage legumes in sub-Saharan Africa D Thomas, JE Sumberg Agriculture, ecosystems & environment 54 (3), 151-163, 1995 | 140 | 1995 |
| Studies with Gliricidia sepium for crop/livestock production systems in West Africa AN Atta-Krah, JE Sumberg Agroforestry systems 6 (1-3), 97-118, 1988 | 106 | 1988 |
| Why agronomy in the developing world has become contentious J Sumberg, J Thompson, P Woodhouse Agriculture and Human Values 30 (1), 71-83, 2013 | 101 | 2013 |
| Farmers, on-farm research and new technology J Sumberg, C Okali Farmer First: Farmer Innovation and Agricultural Research, 109-114, 1989 | 89* | 1989 |
| Contested agronomy: agricultural research in a changing world. J Sumberg, J Thompson Contested agronomy: agricultural research in a changing world, 2012 | 88 | 2012 |
| The logic of fodder legumes in Africa J Sumberg Food policy 27 (3), 285-300, 2002 | 86 | 2002 |
| Introduction: the young people and agriculture ‘problem’in Africa J Sumberg, NA Anyidoho, J Leavy, DJH te Lintelo, K Wellard IDS Bulletin 43 (6), 1-8, 2012 | 72 | 2012 |
| Linking agricultural development to school feeding in sub-Saharan Africa: Theoretical perspectives J Sumberg, R Sabates-Wheeler Food Policy 36 (3), 341-349, 2011 | 63 | 2011 |
| Constraints to the adoption of agricultural innovations: Is it time for a re-think? J Sumberg Outlook on agriculture 34 (1), 7-10, 2005 | 55 | 2005 |
| More clients, less resources: toward a new conceptual framework for agricultural research in marginal areas JD Reece, J Sumberg Technovation 23 (5), 409-421, 2003 | 55 | 2003 |
| Farmers, on-farm research and the development of new technology J Sumberg, C Okali Experimental Agriculture 24 (3), 333-342, 1988 | 55 | 1988 |
| The adoption problem; or why we still understand so little about technological change in African agriculture D Glover, J Sumberg, JA Andersson Outlook on Agriculture 45 (1), 3-6, 2016 | 52 | 2016 |
| Mind the (yield) gap(s) J Sumberg Food Security 4 (4), 509-518, 2012 | 51 | 2012 |
