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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Farm- and community-level factors underlying the profitability of fertiliser usage for Ethiopian smallholder farmers	24
Special collection of articles on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on South African agriculture	19
Farm size and productivity: smallholder dairy production in Eswatini	16
Factors influencing farmers’ dis-adoption and retention decisions for biofortified crops: the case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Mozambique	14
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	13
In memoriam: Wilhelm Eckart Kassier (1933–2025)	13
Analysis of the Kenyan economy: an input-output approach	12
Willingness to pay for improved water supply services in Malawi’s small-scale irrigation schemes	8
Food loss and waste in maize in Mozambique and its economic impacts: a system dynamics assessment approach	8
Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use,	8
Estimating oligopsonistic market power in Uganda’s rice industry	7
Productivity growth and the role of mechanisation in African agriculture	7
Adapting to extreme weather conditions in a developing country: an economywide policy assessment from Malawi	7
Technological differences in South African sheep production: a stochastic meta-frontier analysis	7
Socioeconomic inequalities in household resilience capacity in the context of COVID-19 in the fisheries sector in Malawi	7
The impact of tenure security and agricultural diversity on food security	6
Social protection policy and agricultural labour outcome in West Africa	6
Changing income portfolios and household welfare in rural Uganda	6
The poverty impacts of improved soybean technologies in Malawi	5
Obligations of agricultural economists in South Africa's policy formulation	5
The role of agricultural economists in supporting resilience in the Namibian livestock sector*	5
Data note: Spatializing South African agricultural censuses, 1918–2017	5
Are SACU countries self-sufficient in cereals? A dynamic panel analysis	5
Examining the determinants of agricultural innovation activities: a case study of emerging sugarcane farmers in South Africa	4
Do youth farmers benefit from participating in contract farming? Evidence from French beans youth farmers in Arusha, Tanzania	4

The COVID-19 effects on agricultural commodity markets	4
Proposing a farm assessment toolkit: evaluating a South African land reform case study	4
Drivers of rural households’ food insecurity in Ethiopia: a comprehensive approach of calorie intake and food consumption score	4
The dynamics of the South African lucerne hay industry	4
South Africa’s land redistribution: an agent-based model for assessing structural and economic impacts	4
The role and position of informal street vendors in the Onderberg district banana value chain	4
Trade or trap? The impact of EU trade policies on South Africa's agri-food exports	3
Preferences for index-based pasture insurance: a choice experiment in Limpopo Province, South Africa	3
Female farm holding in Botswana's agriculture industry	3
Assessing the crop productivity and household welfare effects of adopting certified seeds of improved cassava varieties in Uganda	3
Producer prices, carcass classification and consumers’ willingness to pay for different sheep meat grades: an experimental auction approach	3
Total factor productivity growth in livestock production in Botswana: what is the role of scale and mix efficiency change in beef production?	3
Potential improvement in the performance of dairy farms in South Africa	3
Strategic perspectives on quitting or remaining in commercial agriculture in South Africa and why it matters	2
Does commitment to cooperatives affect the economic benefits of smallholder farmers? Evidence from rice cooperatives in the Western province of Zambia	2
Intolerance, xenophobia and cross-border supermarket groups’ operations in South Africa	2
Blockchain in agricultural value chains of developing economies – progress, challenges, and future pathways	2
Determinants of smallholder farmers’ livelihood trajectories. Evidence from rural Malawi	2
Can digital solutions transform agri-food systems in Africa?	2
What do urban consumers want? Findings from a discrete choice experiment on the preference for locally produced staple food in Central Africa: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	2
The impact of Covid-19 on black farmers in South Africa	2
Productivity and profitability of small-scale aquaculture in Malawi	2
Increasing agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa during times of volatile prices and a changing climate	2
Access to mutual labour support in agriculture: Implications for maize productivity and efficiency of farmers in northern Ghana	2
Analysis of intra-region market integration and spatial price transmission in groundnut markets in Malawi	2
Smallholders’ willingness to pay for ZM-GrowTM foliar fertilizer in Dangla District of Northwestern Ethiopia	1
GlobalGAP compliance costs in Ghana’s small-scale pineapple farming sector	1
Resilience and food security in a food systems context	1
A sector-wide review of the COVID-19 impact on the South African agricultural sector during 2020–21	1
Profiling food waste in the retail sector of developing economies	1
Examining the impact of human capital and innovation on farm productivity in the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, South Africa	1
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
Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for access to agricultural market information in Tanzania	1
Determinants of crop abandonment by smallholder maize farmers in Zambia	1
Adoption and impact of improved wheat varieties on productivity and welfare among smallholder farmers in the Arsi Highland of Ethiopia	1
Competitiveness analysis of the South African avocado industry	1
Structure and entry barriers to access groundnut markets for intermediary traders in central and northern Malawi	1
How do we secure a future for the youth in South African agriculture?	1