OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Agrekon is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Typology of contract farming arrangements: a transaction cost perspective	28
The impact of Covid-19 on black farmers in South Africa	16
Impacts of interlocked contractual arrangements on dairy farmers’ welfare in Zambia: a robust Bayesian instrumental variable analysis	12
Land redistribution in South Africa’s land reform policy: a better way to select beneficiaries	11
Do oil prices and exchange rates account for agricultural commodity market spillovers? Evidence from the Diebold and Yilmaz Index	10
Foreign direct investment into agriculture: does it crowd-out domestic investment?	10
Farm- and community-level factors underlying the profitability of fertiliser usage for Ethiopian smallholder farmers	10
Does the use of multiple agricultural technologies affect household welfare? Evidence from Northern Ghana	8
Factors influencing farmers’ dis-adoption and retention decisions for biofortified crops: the case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Mozambique	8
Can digital solutions transform agri-food systems in Africa?	7
Speed of adoption of intensive agricultural practices in Rwanda: A duration analysis	7
Welfare effects of small-scale farmers' participation in apple and mango value chains in Ethiopia	7
Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use,	7
The poverty impacts of improved soybean technologies in Malawi	6
Determinants of individual social capital in dairy cooperatives in West Shoa, Ethiopia	6
A sector-wide review of the COVID-19 impact on the South African agricultural sector during 2020–21	6
Covid-19 and the South African wine industry	6
The effect of trust on farmers’ milk market participation in dairy cooperatives in West Shoa, Ethiopia	6
Price attributes of Döhne Merino wool in South Africa	5
Measuring the financial efficiency of agricultural cooperatives in South Africa: an application of the Simar–Wilson methodology	5
Towards a viable farm size – determining a viable household income for emerging farmers in South Africa's Land Redistribution Programme: an income aspiration approach	5
Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for access to agricultural market information in Tanzania	5
Agronomic and socio-economic assessment of the introduction of a rice-based mixed cropping system to the Cuvelai seasonal wetland system in northern Namibia	4
Productive efficiency and farm size in East Africa	4
Do youth farmers benefit from participating in contract farming? Evidence from French beans youth farmers in Arusha, Tanzania	4

Selling at the farmgate? Role of liquidity constraints and implications for agricultural productivity	4
Household assets and food security in and around medium-sized towns: some insights from Morogoro and Iringa, Tanzania	4
Perceived changes in food security, finances and revenue of rural and urban households during COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria	4
Hotspots of vulnerability and disruption in food value chains during COVID-19 in South Africa: industry- and firm-level “pivoting” in response	4
Price transmission in (de)regulated agricultural markets	4
Total factor productivity growth in livestock production in Botswana: what is the role of scale and mix efficiency change in beef production?	3
Efficiency of a mixed farming system in a marginal winter rainfall area of the Overberg, South Africa, with implications for thinking about sustainability	3
Are SACU countries self-sufficient in cereals? A dynamic panel analysis	3
Gendered analysis of the demand for poultry feed in Kenya	3
Analysis of intra-region market integration and spatial price transmission in groundnut markets in Malawi	3
Adoption and ex-post impact of alternative teff production technologies: micro-level evidence from Ethiopia	3
Production and hidden hunger impacts of sustainable agricultural practices: evidence from rural households in Africa	2
The COVID-19 effects on agricultural commodity markets	2
Rainfall variability and alternative technology adoption: evidence from Ethiopia	2
Crop mix portfolio response to climate risks: evidence from smallholder farmers in Kisumu County, Kenya	2
What factors influence smallholder farmers’ decision to select a milk marketing channel in Zambia?	2
Social protection policy and agricultural labour outcome in West Africa	2
Adoption of ox-drawn minimum tillage ripping by smallholder farmers in Zambia	2
Private extension delivers productivity growth in pasture-based dairy farming in the Eastern Cape, 2012–2018	2
Structure and entry barriers to access groundnut markets for intermediary traders in central and northern Malawi	2
Producer prices, carcass classification and consumers’ willingness to pay for different sheep meat grades: an experimental auction approach	2
Agricultural productivity, land use intensification and rural household welfare: evidence from Ethiopia	1
Agricultural trade liberalisation, agricultural total factor productivity growth and food security in Africa	1
Determinants of livestock keepers’ primary animal health care practices	1
Special collection of articles on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on South African agriculture	1
Effects of input subsidies on cropland allocation and diversification in Botswana’s subsistence economy	1
Factors affecting adoption of technical, organisational and institutional dairy innovations in selected milksheds in Kenya	1
Technological differences in South African sheep production: a stochastic meta-frontier analysis	1
The Covid pandemic, cultivation and livelihoods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape	1
Analysis of the Kenyan economy: an input-output approach	1
Strategic perspectives on quitting or remaining in commercial agriculture in South Africa and why it matters	1
Does commitment to cooperatives affect the economic benefits of smallholder farmers? Evidence from rice cooperatives in the Western province of Zambia	1
Changing income portfolios and household welfare in rural Uganda	1
Taking stock of gender gaps in crop production technology adoption and technical efficiency in Ghana	1
Access to mutual labour support in agriculture: Implications for maize productivity and efficiency of farmers in northern Ghana	1
Adoption and impact of improved wheat varieties on productivity and welfare among smallholder farmers in the Arsi Highland of Ethiopia	1
Determinants of smallholder farmers’ livelihood trajectories. Evidence from rural Malawi	1
Welfare impacts of introducing water pollution tax in the Olifants river basin in South Africa: A revisited analysis using a top-down micro-accounting approach	1
Investigating the motivations driving meat analogue purchase among middle-income consumers in Mbombela, South Africa	1
Introduction to volume 60 of Agrekon	1
Drivers of rural households’ food insecurity in Ethiopia: a comprehensive approach of calorie intake and food consumption score	1