| Climate and southern Africa's water–energy–food nexus D Conway, EA Van Garderen, D Deryng, S Dorling, T Krueger, ... Nature Climate Change 5 (9), 837-846, 2015 | 469 | 2015 |
| Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges M Zeitoun, B Lankford, T Krueger, T Forsyth, R Carter, AY Hoekstra, ... Global Environmental Change 39, 143-154, 2016 | 229 | 2016 |
| The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Monocentric and Polycentric River Basin Management. B Lankford, N Hepworth Water Alternatives 3 (1), 2010 | 155 | 2010 |
| Water security: Principles, perspectives and practices B Lankford, K Bakker, M Zeitoun, D Conway Routledge, 2013 | 144 | 2013 |
| Fictions, fractions, factorials and fractures; on the framing of irrigation efficiency B Lankford Agricultural Water Management 108, 27-38, 2012 | 119 | 2012 |
| Entrenched views or insufficient science?: Contested causes and solutions of water allocation; insights from the Great Ruaha River Basin, Tanzania B Lankford, B van Koppen, T Franks, H Mahoo Agricultural Water Management 69 (2), 135-153, 2004 | 108 | 2004 |
| Equilibrium and non-equilibrium theories of sustainable water resources management: Dynamic river basin and irrigation behaviour in Tanzania B Lankford, T Beale Global Environmental Change 17 (2), 168-180, 2007 | 88 | 2007 |
| Localising irrigation efficiency B Lankford Irrigation and Drainage: The journal of the International Commission on …, 2006 | 80 | 2006 |
| Environmental water requirements: demand management in an era of water scarcity J Pittock, BA Lankford Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 7 (1), 75-93, 2010 | 77 | 2010 |
| Irrigation improvement projects in Tanzania; scale impacts and policy implications B Lankford Water Policy 6 (2), 89-102, 2004 | 75 | 2004 |
| Responding to global challenges in food, energy, environment and water: Risks and options assessment for decision‐making RQ Grafton, M McLindin, K Hussey, P Wyrwoll, D Wichelns, C Ringler, ... Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 3 (2), 275-299, 2016 | 70 | 2016 |
| From integrated to expedient: An adaptive framework for river basin management in developing countries BA Lankford, D Merrey, J Cour, N Hepworth IWMI, 2007 | 69 | 2007 |
| Formal water rights in rural Tanzania: deepening the dichotomy? B Van Koppen, CS Sokile, N Hatibu, BA Lankford, H Mahoo, PZ Yanda IWMI, 2004 | 69 | 2004 |
| Resource efficiency complexity and the commons: The paracommons and paradoxes of natural resource losses, wastes and wastages B Lankford Routledge, 2013 | 67 | 2013 |
| Viewpoint—the right irrigation? Policy directions for agricultural water management in sub-Saharan Africa B Lankford Water Alternatives 2 (3), 476-480, 2009 | 67 | 2009 |
| Environmental flows allocation in river basins: Exploring allocation challenges and options in the Great Ruaha River catchment in Tanzania JJ Kashaigili, RMJ Kadigi, BA Lankford, HF Mahoo, DA Mashauri Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 30 (11-16), 689-697, 2005 | 63 | 2005 |
| A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges B Lankford, A Closas, J Dalton, EL Gunn, T Hess, JW Knox, ... Global Environmental Change 65, 102182, 2020 | 60 | 2020 |
| A compact to revitalise large-scale irrigation systems using a leadership-partnership-ownership'theory of change' B Lankford, I Makin, N Matthews, PG McCornick, A Noble, T Shah | 56 | 2016 |
| Managing water amongst competing uses: the Usangu wetland in Tanzania T Franks, B Lankford, M Mdemu Irrigation and Drainage 53 (3), 277-286, 2004 | 54 | 2004 |
| The delusive accuracy of global irrigation water withdrawal estimates A Puy, R Sheikholeslami, HV Gupta, JW Hall, B Lankford, S Lo Piano, ... Nature communications 13 (1), 3183, 2022 | 52 | 2022 |
