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

Article	Citations
Taking stock of gender gaps in crop production technology adoption and technical efficiency in Ghana	22
Changing income portfolios and household welfare in rural Uganda	16
The impact of tenure security and agricultural diversity on food security	12
Rainfall variability and alternative technology adoption: evidence from Ethiopia	11
Structure and entry barriers to access groundnut markets for intermediary traders in central and northern Malawi	11
District-level agricultural total factor productivity for the Karoo, South Africa: 1952–2002	10
Assessing the crop productivity and household welfare effects of adopting certified seeds of improved cassava varieties in Uganda	10
Foreign direct investment into agriculture: does it crowd-out domestic investment?	9
Intolerance, xenophobia and cross-border supermarket groups’ operations in South Africa	8
Potential improvement in the performance of dairy farms in South Africa	8
The financial burden of African Horse Sickness: a case of the European Union trade ban on South Africa’s horse industry	7
Total factor productivity growth in livestock production in Botswana: what is the role of scale and mix efficiency change in beef production?	7
Social protection policy and agricultural labour outcome in West Africa	6
Identifying possible misspecification in South African soybean oil futures contracts	6
Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for access to agricultural market information in Tanzania	6
Farm- and community-level factors underlying the profitability of fertiliser usage for Ethiopian smallholder farmers	6
Producer prices, carcass classification and consumers’ willingness to pay for different sheep meat grades: an experimental auction approach	6
Preferences for index-based pasture insurance: a choice experiment in Limpopo Province, South Africa	5
How do we secure a future for the youth in South African agriculture?	5
Determinants of crop abandonment by smallholder maize farmers in Zambia	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	4
A sector-wide review of the COVID-19 impact on the South African agricultural sector during 2020–21	4
Analysis of intra-region market integration and spatial price transmission in groundnut markets in Malawi	4
Factors affecting adoption of technical, organisational and institutional dairy innovations in selected milksheds in Kenya	4
The effect of agricultural technology transfer on Zimbabwe’s economic development: a dynamic global trade analysis project approach	4

Does commitment to cooperatives affect the economic benefits of smallholder farmers? Evidence from rice cooperatives in the Western province of Zambia	4
Are SACU countries self-sufficient in cereals? A dynamic panel analysis	3
Consumers’ purchasing behaviour and quality preferences for pork sold in the informal street markets of the Cape Metropole, South Africa	3
The measurement of agricultural productivity in Africa	3
Productive efficiency and farm size in East Africa	3
Investigating the motivations driving meat analogue purchase among middle-income consumers in Mbombela, South Africa	3
Profiling food waste in the retail sector of developing economies	3
Data note: Spatializing South African agricultural censuses, 1918–2017	2
Obligations of agricultural economists in South Africa's policy formulation	2
What factors influence smallholder farmers’ decision to select a milk marketing channel in Zambia?	2
Household resilience and mitigating strategies to conflicts and shocks: evidence from household data in Uganda and Malawi	2
The poverty impacts of improved soybean technologies in Malawi	2
Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for improved irrigation water use: the case of Menz Mama Midir Woreda in North Shewa Zone of Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia	2
The impact of Covid-19 on black farmers in South Africa	2
Farm size and productivity: smallholder dairy production in Eswatini	2
The COVID-19 effects on agricultural commodity markets	2
The role of agricultural economists in supporting resilience in the Namibian livestock sector*	2
The single-serve wine option in South African restaurants: product involvement, risk perception and information-related behavioural effects	2
Hotspots of vulnerability and disruption in food value chains during COVID-19 in South Africa: industry- and firm-level “pivoting” in response	2
Special collection of articles on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on South African agriculture	2
Do changes in maize prices and input prices affect smallholder farmers’ soil fertility management decisions? panel survey evidence from Kenya	2
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	2
Economic and environmental comparison of conventional and conservation agriculture in South African wheat production	1
Food loss and waste in maize in Mozambique and its economic impacts: a system dynamics assessment approach	1
Can farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies ensure their food security? Evidence from Ethiopia	1
Selling at the farmgate? Role of liquidity constraints and implications for agricultural productivity	1
Does the use of multiple agricultural technologies affect household welfare? Evidence from Northern Ghana	1
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)	1
Agricultural economics: a discipline in crisis?	1
Analysis of the Kenyan economy: an input-output approach	1
Factors influencing farmers’ dis-adoption and retention decisions for biofortified crops: the case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Mozambique	1
In memoriam: Wilhelm Eckart Kassier (1933–2025)	1
Private extension delivers productivity growth in pasture-based dairy farming in the Eastern Cape, 2012–2018	1
Adoption and impact of improved wheat varieties on productivity and welfare among smallholder farmers in the Arsi Highland of Ethiopia	1