Advances in Sustainable Agriculture and Horticulture: Towards Resilient, Productive, and Ecologically Sound Food Systems

Natural Farming has emerged as a climate-resilient agriculture practice and is popularising not only in India but also around the world. This study is an effort to map the research evolution of Natural Farming using bibliometric analysis, exploring global collaborations, clusters, and policy connections. The Dimensions database was utilised for deriving the dataset from 2016 to 2025. The dataset was analysed with VOSviewer to visualise scientific publications by author and organisation, author collaboration, network of country-level co-authorship. The result revealed that India emerged as the most central actor, reflecting both the volume of publications and the breadth of collaborations. An increasing participation of China and the USA was found within the collaboration network; however, the research at the world level was reported to be scattered, and a lack of south-south cooperation was observed because of the weaker connections between India and the African and Southeast Asia regions. It is pertinent to highlight that India is leading in the research of Natural Farming across the globe and offering a minimum input-based, climate-resilient farming. A consequential south-south association, integration for the achievement of SDGs through Natural Farming by 2030, could be a policy imperative for future publications.