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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A mixed-methods approach to examine farmers’ willingness to adopt protein crops	272
Evaluating quality of science in CGIAR research programs: Use of bibliometrics	32
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	30
Unfolding consumer purchase intentions toward genetically modified rice with nutritional benefits in Bangladesh	24
Perceptions of an ageing agricultural workforce and farmers’ productivity strategies: Evidence from Prachinburi Province, Thailand	22
Current agricultural diversification strategies are already agroecological	22
High-yielding seeds in unyielding environments: Examining the learning process of maize and bean producers in eastern and midwestern Uganda	20
Editorial	18
Banana seed exchange networks in Burundi – Linking formal and informal systems	18
Spatial and economic dynamics of bean crops in an important production hub in Brazil	17
Tailoring rice varieties to consumer preferences induced by cultural and colonial heritage: Lessons from New Rice for Africa (NERICA) in The Gambia	17
Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	16
Editorial introduction: Design issues and practical questions for demand-oriented seed systems	15
Yam seed system characteristics in Nigeria: Local practices, preferences, and the implications for seed system interventions	14
The key to the development of agricultural cooperatives in Romania from the perspective of those who run them	14
Farms worldwide: 2020 and 2030 outlook	13
Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics	12
Gendered trait prioritization and motivations for crop varietal choice among smallholder farmers: The case of sweetpotato in Uganda	12
Perils of production with perennial polycultures	11
Exploring climate change adaptation strategies in maize (Zea mays) postharvest management practices among smallholder farmers	11
Driving environmental sustainability in the EU specialized milk farms: Strategic CO2 emission reductions for a greener future	11
Farm size and productivity relationship among the farming communities in India	10
Changing gender role declines maize yield, but remittances offset: Findings from migrant households in the central Himalayas, Nepal	10
Farmers’ cooperatives in Southwest China: Beyond the dichotomies of failure/success and (in) authenticity?	10
Who does what and why? Intra-household roles and explanatory models for sourcing soybean seed from the formal sector in Malawi	9

Economic evaluation of increased nitrogen fertiliser prices on risk-efficient fertiliser applications	9
Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers	9
Multiplier effects of some complementary agricultural practices: Evidence from rice in Ecuador	8
The global rice agriculture towards 2050: An inter-continental perspective	8
Support for “we” visions and for broadening the scope in the debate on alternative forms of agriculture	8
Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK	8
Soil biodiversity and nature-mimicry in agriculture; the power of metaphor?	8
Spatial changes to climatic suitability and availability of agropastoral farming systems across Kenya (1980–2020)	7
A systematic review on sustainable agricultural practices among oil palm farmers	7
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures	7
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	7
Livestock solutions to regenerate soils and landscapes for sustainable agri-food systems transformation in Africa	7
Does the climate-smart village extension model enhance farmer empowerment?	7
Agronomy and (in)equity: Lead, engage or ignore?	7
Does the accessibility of a farmer predict the delivery of extension services? Evidence from Rwanda	6
Breaking barriers to adoption: A multi-stakeholder platform approach to promoting improved common bean varieties among farmers in Malawi	6
Gender and access to complex and gender-biased agricultural technology information and knowledge: Evidence from smart-valleys in West Africa	6
Technology, infrastructure and enterprise trade-off: Strengthening smallholder farming systems in Tamil Nadu State of India for sustainable income and food security	6
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	5
Progress Towards Perennial Grains for Prairies and Plains	5
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	5
Strategizing sustainable food security in Saudi Arabia: A policy and scenario approach to agricultural resilience	5
Regenerative agriculture: A paradigm shift for food production in South Africa	5
High-density grazing in southern Africa: Inspiration by nature leads to conservation?	4
An innovation systems approach to understanding forage adoption intensity in the dairy systems of Kenya and Ethiopia	4
Estimating farmers’ internal value of crop residues in smallholder crop-livestock systems: A South Asia case study	4
Basket of options: Unpacking the concept	4
The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa	4
The negative impacts of the restructuring of the abattoir industry in Great Britain on small abattoirs	4
Adoption; a relevant concept for agricultural land management in the 21 century?	4
Gender dynamics in the biofortified bean value chain in Burundi	3
Why farmers use so many different maize varieties in West Kenya	3
A systematic review on the factors governing precision agriculture adoption among small-scale farmers	3
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	3
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	3
Revisiting strategies to incorporate gender-responsiveness into maize breeding in southern Africa	3
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	3
Corrigendum to “Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches”	3
Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements: Legume crops as a case study	3
Restoring social and ecological relationships in the agroecosystems of Canada's prairie region	3
Research and development for sorghum and millets in Sub-Saharan Africa: What have we learned?	3
Smallholder farmers’ perception and adoption of digital agricultural technologies: An empirical evidence from Vietnam	3
UK agriculture at a crossroads	3
Introducing an ecologically-based pest management approach in Cambodia through adaptive learning networks	3
Good fences make good neighbors? Exploring potential transformative impacts of local governance towards livestock fence-in rights in Malawi	3
Are positive farmers more productive? Investigating the relationship between positivity ratio and agricultural productivity	2
Smash-ridging cultivation improves crop production	2
Because error has a price: A systematic review of the applications of DNA fingerprinting for crop varietal identification	2
Gendered impacts of COVID-19 in agri-food system and recovery pathways in India: A systematic review	2
Regenerative agriculture as a biomimetic technology	2

Legume integration for biological control deserves a firmer scientific base	2
Food security, food insecurity, and Canada’s national food policy: Meaning, measures, and assessment	2
Seed value chain development in the Global South: Key issues and new directions for public breeding programs	2
Irrigation Advisory Services: Farmers preferences and willingness to pay for innovation	2
RETRACTED: Addressing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities of automation and robotics technologies adoption in agriculture: The case of Ontario, Canada	2
Herbicides and Zero Tillage in South Asia: Are we creating a gendered problem?	2
Future agricultures: The promise and pitfalls of a (re)turn to nature	2
Agroecology: Searching in the wrong place	2