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383 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 4,719 Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • The study identifies the logistical challenges associated with accessing geographically dispersed rural producers in the study area. The need to validate and extend the findings through larger samples and replication across regions with comparable agroforestry systems.

    Business Factors and Food Security as Key Determinants of Livelihood Sustainability in Amazonian Agroforestry Systems using a PLS-SEM Approach · 2026 · DOI

  • The study used a census approach due to logistical challenges - The fieldwork covered the entire target population available for this study - Future research should consider larger samples and replication across regions

    Business Factors and Food Security as Key Determinants of Livelihood Sustainability in Amazonian Agroforestry Systems using a PLS-SEM Approach · 2026 · DOI

  • The decline of community-level collaboration and the erosion of reciprocity norms in agrobiodiversity governance. The challenge of maintaining agrobiodiversity in the face of environmental variability and changing socioecological conditions. The need to adapt traditional reciprocity systems to contemporary migration dynamics and labor force shortages.

    Collaborative Agrobiodiversity Governance: The Case of Trans-Local Networks of Biocultural Conservationists of the Peruvian Andes · 2026 · DOI

  • The need to understand the relationship between agroecological resilience and agrobiodiversity governance. The lack of knowledge on collaborative governance mechanisms and their embeddedness in social relations. The importance of examining the dynamics of agrobiodiversity governance at the local and regional scales.

    Collaborative Agrobiodiversity Governance: The Case of Trans-Local Networks of Biocultural Conservationists of the Peruvian Andes · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of in-depth analysis of the restitution process in prior research. The need to understand the impact of the 1915 law and the 1927 law on the restitution and dotation processes. The importance of examining the intersection of restitutory and dotatory procedures.

    Nuevas miradas a la restitución agraria. Entre dos sierras y un bosque de agua. Siete pueblos del Distrito Federal · 2026 · DOI

  • The challenge of understanding the complex politics of extractivism. The difficulty of identifying and distinguishing between lawful and criminal accommodators. The need to develop a framework that can capture the dynamic and multiple politics of extractivism.

    The third standpoint: the politics of accommodating to green agrarian extractivism · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of research on accommodative politics in the context of extractivism. The need to understand how extractivist orders are stabilised, softened, and legitimated. The gap in existing frameworks for analysing the complex politics of extractivism.

    The third standpoint: the politics of accommodating to green agrarian extractivism · 2026 · DOI

  • identifying human, environmental, social, economic and governance capacities that can increase or block regional food system resilience - exploring the range of sustainability dimensions that can and do build resilience in the context of shocks and stresses

    Building capacities in regional food systems: mapping change towards transformation · 2026 · DOI

  • The gap in existing research lies in the lack of attention to the ways in which emotions are mobilized to maintain oppressive systems. The paper identifies a need to challenge dominant narratives and integrate underrepresented perspectives in food system transformations. The research highlights the importance of analyzing the affective dissonance between lived experiences and dominant narratives.

    Food system transformation, politics, and emotions: affective dissonance and (Un)making capitalism in the Western Balkans · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research on the interaction between contextual factors and farmer agency, - Investigation of the impact of security context on agrobiodiversity

    “What is the essence of cultivating a crop that does not yield enough to feed my family?” Farmer agency and the management of agrobiodiversity in Ghana and Burkina Faso · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of how farmers perceive, manage, and shape agrobiodiversity over time. The dominant narratives often portray crop diversity in smallholder farming as declining under pressures of intensification and market integration, but the paper argues that this perspective oversimplifies the complexity of agrobiodiversity.

    “What is the essence of cultivating a crop that does not yield enough to feed my family?” Farmer agency and the management of agrobiodiversity in Ghana and Burkina Faso · 2026 · DOI

  • Significant knowledge gaps about gender-specific realities - The lack of a systems perspective - Identifying policies that improve or harm gendered outcomes

    Participatory systems modeling to identify and support gender-responsive agri-food system strategies · 2026 · DOI

  • Knowledge gaps exist regarding gender-specific realities within agri-food systems under climate change. Current analytical approaches lack a comprehensive systems perspective for addressing these issues.

    Participatory systems modeling to identify and support gender-responsive agri-food system strategies · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of a comprehensive approach to address the complex interactions underpinning the breakdown of natural, social, and human capital. The need for a new paradigm for rehabilitation that creates incentives for long-term participation and strengthened community partnerships.

    ‘Land Maxing’: Regenerative, Remunerative, Productive and Transformative Agriculture to Harness the Six Capitals of Sustainable Development · 2025 · DOI

  • further study on the impact of state-driven capital on food security - examination of the long-term effects of Qatar's food security strategies

    From crisis to resilience: food security policy development in Qatar · 2025 · DOI

  • Some farmers’ responses are more successful than others, but we found that advisers’ understanding of these responses may be limited by their stereotypical views of farmers’ decision-making processes.

    Farming in turbulent times: personal values, social networks and the reshaping of agricultural advisory services · 2026 · DOI

  • Our findings reveal three key characteristics of discourse coalitions in this subsystem that may warrant further investigation in other nascent subsystems.

    A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem · 2025 · DOI

  • After decades of calls for more sustainable land use systems, there is still a lack of consensus on an appropriate way forward, especially for tropical and subtropical agroecosystems.

    ‘Land Maxing’: Regenerative, Remunerative, Productive and Transformative Agriculture to Harness the Six Capitals of Sustainable Development · 2025 · DOI

  • Further investigation of these principles could reveal promising policy pathways for land systems.

    Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems · 2025 · DOI

  • The present study investigates the impacts of cashew cultivation on sustainable livelihoods of smallholder farmers in the Southern region of India, addressing a significant research gap in the understanding of how this crop affects various aspects of farmers' lives.

    Sustainable livelihoods through cashew cultivation: insights from smallholder farmers in the southern region of India · 2024 · DOI

  • Food security governance and policy frameworks are discussed conceptually, but no study empirically tests how agritech implementation or technology transfer mechanisms interact with governance structures to improve food security outcomes at national or community levels.

    Food security governance. Empowering communities, regulating corporations · 2015 · DOI

  • Persistent poverty, malnutrition, and environmental degradation. The need for effective food systems transformation. The lack of empirical evidence on the economic viability of agroecological transition.

    Agroecological transition can boost Kenya’s food system: evidence from a cost–benefit analysis of the mango value chain · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a gap in empirical evidence on the economic viability of agroecological transition. There is a need for more studies on the cost-benefit analysis of agroecological transition.

    Agroecological transition can boost Kenya’s food system: evidence from a cost–benefit analysis of the mango value chain · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in our understanding of the historical roots of social caging in East Asia. It highlights the need for further research on the implications of social caging for contemporary social theory.

    The Evolution of Social Caging in the Rice Cultivation System: How Ecology–Crop–Human Interactions Discouraged Exit Options in East Asia · 2026 · DOI

  • Financial barriers to adopting sustainable methods. Limited access to resources and inadequate training support. Economic pressures and the absence of subsidized inputs.

    From toxic fields to sustainable agriculture: the power of critical adult education in transforming farming practices in Kebumen, Indonesia · 2026 · DOI

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