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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics	56
Perils of production with perennial polycultures	56
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	31
Digital tool innovations for smallholder inclusion	30
Progress Towards Perennial Grains for Prairies and Plains	29
Changing gender role declines maize yield, but remittances offset: Findings from migrant households in the central Himalayas, Nepal	28
Soil biodiversity and nature-mimicry in agriculture; the power of metaphor?	27
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	26
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	25
Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements: Legume crops as a case study	23
From classroom to field: Assessing the impact of gender-targeted farmer training on knowledge, attitudes and practices in Northern Laos	21
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	20
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	17
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	17
Agroecology: Searching in the wrong place	16
What does CGIAR do to address climate change? Perspectives from a decade of science on climate change adaptation and mitigation	16
Monodominant natural vegetation provides models for nature-based cereal production	14
Regenerative agriculture as a biomimetic technology	13
Our morality tells us what to eat – A systematic review on attitudes towards genetically modified foods	13
Native grasses’ potential of providing ecological weed suppression in rangeland and natural areas: A scoping review	13
Shaping India's climate future: A perspective on harnessing carbon credits from agriculture	12
The use of epic narratives in promoting ‘natural agriculture’	12
Participatory research at scale: A comparative analysis of four approaches to large-scale agricultural technology testing with farmers	12
Editorial: Why agroecology?	11
Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis	11

Understanding communication and stakeholder learning process affecting sustainability in multi-stakeholder platforms: The case of a Learning Alliance in Vietnam	11
Agricultural skill development in neoliberal contexts: Upskilling, deskilling, or skills’ subsumption?	11
Adoption and abandonment of hybrid rice technology: The case of Bangladesh	11
The impact of policies on the diffusion of agricultural innovations: Systematic review on evaluation approaches	10
Gendered trait prioritization and motivations for crop varietal choice among smallholder farmers: The case of sweetpotato in Uganda	9
Productivity and constraints of small-scale crop farming in the summer rainfall region of South Africa	9
Are common bean traders efficient? An empirical evidence from Malawi	9
Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers	8
Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	8
Rethinking rigor, knowledge hierarchies, and deskilled data collectors: An agenda for skilling research in global development	8
Does the accessibility of a farmer predict the delivery of extension services? Evidence from Rwanda	8
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	8
Banana seed exchange networks in Burundi – Linking formal and informal systems	8
An innovation systems approach to understanding forage adoption intensity in the dairy systems of Kenya and Ethiopia	7
Technology, infrastructure and enterprise trade-off: Strengthening smallholder farming systems in Tamil Nadu State of India for sustainable income and food security	7
Options for a just transition for livestock under climate change	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
Designing with farmers: Inclusive lessons from developing a phygital (in-person + mobile) extension platform in Zambia	7
Smallholder farmers’ perception and adoption of digital agricultural technologies: An empirical evidence from Vietnam	6
The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Because error has a price: A systematic review of the applications of DNA fingerprinting for crop varietal identification	6
Motivation and opportunity may drive Tunisian farmers to reduce chemical pesticides in horticulture	5
Quantitative and qualitative food losses of African indigenous vegetables along the value chain: A systematic literature review	5
Technology, rurality and gender… false friends, but not enemies!	5
Contextualizing private sector-based seed system development: The case of sorghum in Eastern Africa	5
Copy competitively-tested adaptations of wild species, maybe, but not natural ecosystems tested only by persistence	5
Evolving meanings of ‘principles’ in agronomic discourse	5
Digitalization and skills in agriculture	5
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
A mixed-methods approach to examine farmers’ willingness to adopt protein crops	4
Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK	4
Farmers’ cooperatives in Southwest China: Beyond the dichotomies of failure/success and (in) authenticity?	4
UK agriculture at a crossroads	4
Maize seed aid and seed systems development: Opportunities for synergies in Uganda	3
Options for diversifying agricultural systems to reduce pesticide use: Can we learn from nature?	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
Beef cattle production systems and constraints among subsistence farmers across the Fijian windward–leeward divide	3
Collaboration networks in agricultural research in Uruguay: An exploration based on social network analysis	3
Strengthening emergency pest prevention, preparedness and response: The potential role of the private sector	3
Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration – Mango production in Malawi as a test case	3
Transforming agriculture and the 70% myths	3
Future agricultures: The promise and pitfalls of a (re)turn to nature	3
Impact of agricultural extension services on rice productivity and profitability in Bangladesh	3
RETRACTED: Addressing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities of automation and robotics technologies adoption in agriculture: The case of Ontario, Canada	3
Land and technology requirements for economically prosperous smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania	3
Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic rice supply and food security in Southeast Asia	3
What motivates young people in fragile contexts to participate in agriculture and food security programs? Insights from aspirations in Northern Benin	3

Rural development and transformation of the rice sector in Myanmar: Introduction of best management practices for sustainable rice agriculture	3
Intellectual property rights and plants made by new genomic techniques: Access to technology and gene-edited traits in plant breeding	3
Food security, food insecurity, and Canada’s national food policy: Meaning, measures, and assessment	3
Is agroecology a solution or an agenda?	3
Problems in the linkage among agricultural research, rural extension and farmers: An international literature review	3
Restoring social and ecological relationships in the agroecosystems of Canada's prairie region	2
Driving environmental sustainability in the EU specialized milk farms: Strategic CO2 emission reductions for a greener future	2
Revisiting strategies to incorporate gender-responsiveness into maize breeding in southern Africa	2
Unplanned but well prepared: A reinterpreted success story of international agricultural research, and its implications	2
Livestock solutions to regenerate soils and landscapes for sustainable agri-food systems transformation in Africa	2
Transforming African agriculture, water, and climate resilience - the vision behind establishing UM6P's College of Agricultural and Environmental Science	2
Skill talk: The struggle over agricultural decision-making	2
High-density grazing in southern Africa: Inspiration by nature leads to conservation?	2
High-yielding seeds in unyielding environments: Examining the learning process of maize and bean producers in eastern and midwestern Uganda	2
Why farmers use so many different maize varieties in West Kenya	2
Gender and access to complex and gender-biased agricultural technology information and knowledge: Evidence from smart-valleys in West Africa	2
The garden as resistance: Horticultural skill and human potential behind bars	2
The global rice agriculture towards 2050: An inter-continental perspective	2
Skill and deskilling in an uncertain agricultural world: Introduction to the special issue	2
Introducing an ecologically-based pest management approach in Cambodia through adaptive learning networks	2
Has process hijacked purpose? Outlook on food systems transformation in the global climate change processes	2
Editorial introduction: Design issues and practical questions for demand-oriented seed systems	2
Are positive farmers more productive? Investigating the relationship between positivity ratio and agricultural productivity	2
Multiplier effects of some complementary agricultural practices: Evidence from rice in Ecuador	2