OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Agrekon 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of Covid-19 on black farmers in South Africa	22
Does the use of multiple agricultural technologies affect household welfare? Evidence from Northern Ghana	16
Impacts of interlocked contractual arrangements on dairy farmers’ welfare in Zambia: a robust Bayesian instrumental variable analysis	15
Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use,	12
Land redistribution in South Africa’s land reform policy: a better way to select beneficiaries	11
Foreign direct investment into agriculture: does it crowd-out domestic investment?	11
Can digital solutions transform agri-food systems in Africa?	10
Farm- and community-level factors underlying the profitability of fertiliser usage for Ethiopian smallholder farmers	10
Factors influencing farmers’ dis-adoption and retention decisions for biofortified crops: the case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Mozambique	9
Covid-19 and the South African wine industry	8
A sector-wide review of the COVID-19 impact on the South African agricultural sector during 2020–21	8
Welfare effects of small-scale farmers' participation in apple and mango value chains in Ethiopia	7
Speed of adoption of intensive agricultural practices in Rwanda: A duration analysis	7
Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for access to agricultural market information in Tanzania	7
The COVID-19 effects on agricultural commodity markets	6
The poverty impacts of improved soybean technologies in Malawi	6
Perceived changes in food security, finances and revenue of rural and urban households during COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria	6
Towards a viable farm size – determining a viable household income for emerging farmers in South Africa's Land Redistribution Programme: an income aspiration approach	6
Price attributes of Döhne Merino wool in South Africa	5
Factors affecting adoption of technical, organisational and institutional dairy innovations in selected milksheds in Kenya	5
Do youth farmers benefit from participating in contract farming? Evidence from French beans youth farmers in Arusha, Tanzania	5
Total factor productivity growth in livestock production in Botswana: what is the role of scale and mix efficiency change in beef production?	5
Hotspots of vulnerability and disruption in food value chains during COVID-19 in South Africa: industry- and firm-level “pivoting” in response	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
Analysis of intra-region market integration and spatial price transmission in groundnut markets in Malawi	4

Drivers of rural households’ food insecurity in Ethiopia: a comprehensive approach of calorie intake and food consumption score	4
Productive efficiency and farm size in East Africa	4
Selling at the farmgate? Role of liquidity constraints and implications for agricultural productivity	4
Producer prices, carcass classification and consumers’ willingness to pay for different sheep meat grades: an experimental auction approach	4
Determinants of smallholder farmers’ livelihood trajectories. Evidence from rural Malawi	3
Productivity growth and the role of mechanisation in African agriculture	3
What factors influence smallholder farmers’ decision to select a milk marketing channel in Zambia?	3
Agricultural productivity, land use intensification and rural household welfare: evidence from Ethiopia	3
Are SACU countries self-sufficient in cereals? A dynamic panel analysis	3
Does commitment to cooperatives affect the economic benefits of smallholder farmers? Evidence from rice cooperatives in the Western province of Zambia	2
District-level agricultural total factor productivity for the Karoo, South Africa: 1952–2002	2
Taking stock of gender gaps in crop production technology adoption and technical efficiency in Ghana	2
Access to mutual labour support in agriculture: Implications for maize productivity and efficiency of farmers in northern Ghana	2
Strategic perspectives on quitting or remaining in commercial agriculture in South Africa and why it matters	2
Determinants of livestock keepers’ primary animal health care practices	2
Social protection policy and agricultural labour outcome in West Africa	2
Structure and entry barriers to access groundnut markets for intermediary traders in central and northern Malawi	2
Adoption of ox-drawn minimum tillage ripping by smallholder farmers in Zambia	2
Crop mix portfolio response to climate risks: evidence from smallholder farmers in Kisumu County, Kenya	2
Private extension delivers productivity growth in pasture-based dairy farming in the Eastern Cape, 2012–2018	2
Investigating the motivations driving meat analogue purchase among middle-income consumers in Mbombela, South Africa	2
Introduction to volume 60 of Agrekon	2
Rainfall variability and alternative technology adoption: evidence from Ethiopia	2
Technological differences in South African sheep production: a stochastic meta-frontier analysis	2
The Covid pandemic, cultivation and livelihoods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape	2
Agricultural trade liberalisation, agricultural total factor productivity growth and food security in Africa	2