OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Outlook on Agriculture is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Perils of production with perennial polycultures	45
Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics	44
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	25
Digital tool innovations for smallholder inclusion	24
Soil biodiversity and nature-mimicry in agriculture; the power of metaphor?	24
Progress Towards Perennial Grains for Prairies and Plains	24
Changing gender role declines maize yield, but remittances offset: Findings from migrant households in the central Himalayas, Nepal	23
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	21
Who does what and why? Intra-household roles and explanatory models for sourcing soybean seed from the formal sector in Malawi	21
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	20
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	19
Herbicides and Zero Tillage in South Asia: Are we creating a gendered problem?	18
Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements: Legume crops as a case study	16
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	16
From classroom to field: Assessing the impact of gender-targeted farmer training on knowledge, attitudes and practices in Northern Laos	15
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	14
What does CGIAR do to address climate change? Perspectives from a decade of science on climate change adaptation and mitigation	13
Agroecology: Searching in the wrong place	12
Monodominant natural vegetation provides models for nature-based cereal production	11
Regenerative agriculture as a biomimetic technology	11
Our morality tells us what to eat – A systematic review on attitudes towards genetically modified foods	11
Native grasses’ potential of providing ecological weed suppression in rangeland and natural areas: A scoping review	11
Shaping India's climate future: A perspective on harnessing carbon credits from agriculture	10
Participatory research at scale: A comparative analysis of four approaches to large-scale agricultural technology testing with farmers	10
Editorial: Why agroecology?	9

Productivity and constraints of small-scale crop farming in the summer rainfall region of South Africa	9
The use of epic narratives in promoting ‘natural agriculture’	9
Are common bean traders efficient? An empirical evidence from Malawi	9
The impact of policies on the diffusion of agricultural innovations: Systematic review on evaluation approaches	9
Understanding communication and stakeholder learning process affecting sustainability in multi-stakeholder platforms: The case of a Learning Alliance in Vietnam	9
Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis	9
Adoption and abandonment of hybrid rice technology: The case of Bangladesh	9
Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	8
Agricultural skill development in neoliberal contexts: Upskilling, deskilling, or skills’ subsumption?	8
Does the accessibility of a farmer predict the delivery of extension services? Evidence from Rwanda	8
Banana seed exchange networks in Burundi – Linking formal and informal systems	8
Technology, infrastructure and enterprise trade-off: Strengthening smallholder farming systems in Tamil Nadu State of India for sustainable income and food security	8
Gendered trait prioritization and motivations for crop varietal choice among smallholder farmers: The case of sweetpotato in Uganda	8
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	7
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures	7
Corrigendum to “Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches”	7
Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers	7
An innovation systems approach to understanding forage adoption intensity in the dairy systems of Kenya and Ethiopia	7
Because error has a price: A systematic review of the applications of DNA fingerprinting for crop varietal identification	7
Smallholder farmers’ perception and adoption of digital agricultural technologies: An empirical evidence from Vietnam	7
Technology, rurality and gender… false friends, but not enemies!	6
The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Digitalization and skills in agriculture	6
Basket of options: Unpacking the concept	6
Copy competitively-tested adaptations of wild species, maybe, but not natural ecosystems tested only by persistence	6
Quantitative and qualitative food losses of African indigenous vegetables along the value chain: A systematic literature review	6
Evolving meanings of ‘principles’ in agronomic discourse	5
Farmers’ cooperatives in Southwest China: Beyond the dichotomies of failure/success and (in) authenticity?	5
Contextualizing private sector-based seed system development: The case of sorghum in Eastern Africa	5
Motivation and opportunity may drive Tunisian farmers to reduce chemical pesticides in horticulture	5
Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK	4
RETRACTED: Addressing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities of automation and robotics technologies adoption in agriculture: The case of Ontario, Canada	4
A mixed-methods approach to examine farmers’ willingness to adopt protein crops	4
Food security, food insecurity, and Canada’s national food policy: Meaning, measures, and assessment	4
Support for “we” visions and for broadening the scope in the debate on alternative forms of agriculture	4
Gender dynamics in the biofortified bean value chain in Burundi	4
Collaboration networks in agricultural research in Uruguay: An exploration based on social network analysis	3
Problems in the linkage among agricultural research, rural extension and farmers: An international literature review	3
Future agricultures: The promise and pitfalls of a (re)turn to nature	3
Land and technology requirements for economically prosperous smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania	3
Farm supply and grain marketing businesses: A mixed methods investigation of past and intended future strategies	3
Assessing impacts of COVID-19 and their responses among smallholder farmers in Brazil, Madagascar and Tanzania	3
Impact of agricultural extension services on rice productivity and profitability in Bangladesh	3
Is agroecology a solution or an agenda?	3
Revisiting the original reasons for excluding inorganic fertilizers in organic farming—Why the ban is not consistent with our current scientific understanding	3
UK agriculture at a crossroads	3
Beef cattle production systems and constraints among subsistence farmers across the Fijian windward–leeward divide	3
Intellectual property rights and plants made by new genomic techniques: Access to technology and gene-edited traits in plant breeding	3
Maize seed aid and seed systems development: Opportunities for synergies in Uganda	3
Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration – Mango production in Malawi as a test case	3

Driving environmental sustainability in the EU specialized milk farms: Strategic CO2 emission reductions for a greener future	2
Strengthening emergency pest prevention, preparedness and response: The potential role of the private sector	2
Has process hijacked purpose? Outlook on food systems transformation in the global climate change processes	2
The garden as resistance: Horticultural skill and human potential behind bars	2
Editorial introduction: Design issues and practical questions for demand-oriented seed systems	2
Options for diversifying agricultural systems to reduce pesticide use: Can we learn from nature?	2
Rural development and transformation of the rice sector in Myanmar: Introduction of best management practices for sustainable rice agriculture	2
High-yielding seeds in unyielding environments: Examining the learning process of maize and bean producers in eastern and midwestern Uganda	2
Transforming agriculture and the 70% myths	2
Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic rice supply and food security in Southeast Asia	2
Unplanned but well prepared: A reinterpreted success story of international agricultural research, and its implications	2