OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Outlook on Agriculture is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	93
Strengthening grain legume production in Germany: What drives farmers to join a producer organisation?	54
Digital tool innovations for smallholder inclusion	40
Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements: Legume crops as a case study	29
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	23
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	20
From classroom to field: Assessing the impact of gender-targeted farmer training on knowledge, attitudes and practices in Northern Laos	19
Labor constraints and technological change: How labor shortages accelerate the adoption of labor-saving technologies among smallholder farmers	18
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	17
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	16
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	15
Agroecology: Searching in the wrong place	14
Native grasses’ potential of providing ecological weed suppression in rangeland and natural areas: A scoping review	13
What does CGIAR do to address climate change? Perspectives from a decade of science on climate change adaptation and mitigation	13
Participatory research at scale: A comparative analysis of four approaches to large-scale agricultural technology testing with farmers	12
Are common bean traders efficient? An empirical evidence from Malawi	12
Shaping India's climate future: A perspective on harnessing carbon credits from agriculture	12
From breeding trait to farm gate: Bean seed quality in Uganda	12
Our morality tells us what to eat – A systematic review on attitudes towards genetically modified foods	12
Understanding communication and stakeholder learning process affecting sustainability in multi-stakeholder platforms: The case of a Learning Alliance in Vietnam	11
Editorial: Why agroecology?	11
Farewell to Dr James (Jim) Sumberg	11
Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis	11
The impact of policies on the diffusion of agricultural innovations: Systematic review on evaluation approaches	10
Agricultural skill development in neoliberal contexts: Upskilling, deskilling, or skills’ subsumption?	8

Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	8
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	8
Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers	8
Adoption and abandonment of hybrid rice technology: The case of Bangladesh	8
Varieties on paper: Are varieties in national catalogs available to African farmers?	8
Rethinking rigor, knowledge hierarchies, and deskilled data collectors: An agenda for skilling research in global development	8
Gendered trait prioritization and motivations for crop varietal choice among smallholder farmers: The case of sweetpotato in Uganda	8
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures	8
Banana seed exchange networks in Burundi – Linking formal and informal systems	8
Smallholder farmers’ perception and adoption of digital agricultural technologies: An empirical evidence from Vietnam	7
Designing with farmers: Inclusive lessons from developing a phygital (in-person + mobile) extension platform in Zambia	7
An innovation systems approach to understanding forage adoption intensity in the dairy systems of Kenya and Ethiopia	7
Options for a just transition for livestock under climate change	7
Corrigendum to “Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches”	7
Less is more? The adoption and economic impact of agrochemical control on grain production in the North China Plain	7