OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Food Policy is 15. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Methane from cattle: facing realities in the global south	201
Heterogenous correlates of mechanization use and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe: A quantile regression analysis	200
An emerging food policy domain: The effects of autonomous transport technologies on food access and consumption	118
Migration, gender labor division and food insecurity in Tajikistan	96
Can we improve the healthiness of online food purchases through the Nutri-Score and site design?	88
Hidden one-stop shops in transforming agrifood value chains: Agro-input retailers in Myanmar	80
Food industry influence in collaborative governance: The case of the Dutch prevention agreement on overweight	80
Deconstructing fertilizer price spikes: Evidence from Chinese urea fertilizer market	77
Public transfers, food consumption and dietary diversity. The case of Tarjeta Uruguay Social	77
Use of recycled phosphorus products in organic farming in EU member states: Theoretically supported but practically restricted	74
Seasonality of employment and food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa	71
Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost-effective addition to high-frequency food security monitoring	69
Viewpoint: evaluating transparency and market consequences of the national bioengineered food disclosure standard in the United States	69
Viewpoint: The uptake of new crop science: Explaining success, and failure	68
The integrated food security phase classification system: seven defining characteristics	61
Food price inflation forecasting: Insights from a Macroeconomic Auto-Regressive Random Forest approach	57
The organizational challenge of international agricultural research: The fifty-year odyssey of the CGIAR	55
Corporate concentration and power matter for agency in food systems	53
Technological innovation and agricultural performance in the ASEAN region: The role of digitalization	52
Can government investment in food pantries decrease food insecurity?	51
From grain self-sufficiency to food system resilience: Rethinking China’s approach to food security	50
Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security	47
Fighting inflation through VAT reductions	47
Review: untangling the complex economics of the local food retail environment	45
Can changing the meal sequence in school canteens reduce vegetable food waste? A cluster randomized control trial	45

Managing across boundaries for coordinated local and regional food system policy	45
Animal disease outbreaks and upstream soybean trade	44
Does subsidizing legume seeds improve farm productivity and nutrition in Malawi?	43
Consumer preference for food products addressing multiple dimensions of poverty: Evidence from China	42
Influencing the nutritional quality of grocery purchases: A randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a social norm-based behavioral intervention with and without a loss-framed financial incentive	42
Small wins in practice: Learnings from 16 European initiatives working towards the transformation of urban food systems	41
The international trade impacts of Geographical Indications: Hype or hope?	41
Food choices at a client choice food pantry: Do low-income pantry users respond to changed opportunity costs?	39
The role of pesticides and fertilizers in Czech cereal output and TFP growth: A flexible production function with endogenous inputs	38
Fertilizer, soil health, and economic shocks: A synthesis of recent evidence	37
The unmet financial needs of intermediary firms within agri-food value chains in Uganda and Bangladesh	37
Editorial Board	36
Editorial Board	36
Composite effects of human, natural and social capitals on sustainable food-crop farming in Sub-Saharan Africa	35
Subsidizing improved legume seeds for increased household dietary diversity: Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme with implications for addressing malnutrition in all its forms	35
Who values urban community gardens and how much?	35
Editorial Board	35
Policy mixes and major emission reductions in European agriculture	34
Adoption dynamics of food redistribution technology to enhance policy measures in the agri-food sector	34
Effects of school meals on nutrition: Evidence from the start of the school year	33
Impact of community development initiatives and access to community markets on household food security and nutrition in Ghana	33
Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria	33
Impact of crop commercialization on smallholder farmers’ resilience to shocks: Evidence from panel data for rural Southeast Asia	32
Climate and household food waste in China	32
Assessing the economic effects of veterinary antimicrobial use reduction policies: China’s experience and worldwide implications	32
Managed urbanization and agricultural productivity: evidence from China’s New-type urbanization pilot program	31
The impact of pre-empting dual food quality regulation on product reformulation and packaging	30
Multi-scalar policy uptake of the six-dimensional food security framework	30
A trade-off between lives and the economy? Subsidizing dining out under the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	30
Extreme weather events cause significant crop yield losses at the farm level in German agriculture	30
Editorial Board	30
Does agricultural intensification pay in the context of structural transformation?	30
Corrigendum to “Financing agricultural innovation: challenges and alternatives to venture capital in the AgTech sector”. [Food Policy 136 (2025) 102967]	29
The transition incentive program and women farmers in the USA	28
Editorial Board	28
Food for thought: Assessing the consumer welfare impacts of deploying irreversible, landscape-scale biotechnologies	27
How responsive are nutrients in India? Some recent evidence	27
Marketing strategies used in retail food environments in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and North Macedonia	26
Unravelling the provisioning system of a strategic food commodity to minimise import dependency: A study of garlic in Indonesia	26
Internalizing the external costs to achieve environmental and economic Goals: A Case study of rice production in China	26
Technical efficiency and technological gaps correcting for selectivity bias: Insights from a value chain project in Nepal	25
Consumer preferences for sugar-sweetened beverages: Evidence from online surveys and laboratory eye-tracking choice experiments	25
Assessing the environmental implications of sustainable public procurement of food	25
Disasters, population trends, and their impact on the U.S. pork packing sector	25
The Information Value of Geographical Indications	25
Rural Economy-wide Impacts of Kenya’s Home-Grown School Meals Program	25
Framing local food and food heritage in European Union food policy	25
Toward local nutritious foods for a healthy food environment for children: A community-led food innovation in Benin’s drylands	24
Farm size and the quality and quantity of jobs—Insights from Nigeria	24
A comment on USDA Food Business Centers: Collaborations to nurture innovation in the food system	24

Putting your money where your mouth is: Accelerating investment action for healthy and sustainable food systems in Australia	24
Demand effects of unilateral versus industry-wide sugar reduction scenarios	24
Equity-Driven fiscal Policies: Taxing Ultra-Processed products and subsidizing minimally processed foods	24
Measuring changes in pork demand, welfare effects, and the role of information sources in the event of an African swine fever outbreak in the United States	23
The impact of CAP subsidies on the productivity of cereal farms in six European countries: A historical perspective (2008–2018)	23
Voluntary sustainability standards and farmer welfare: The pathways to success?	23
Does food quality certification improve eco-efficiency? Empirical evidence from Chinese vegetable production	23
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	23
Has COVID-19 accelerated the E-commerce of agricultural products? Evidence from sales data of E-stores in China	23
Food politics in China: How strengthened accountability enhances food security	22
Trends and evolution of global value chains in food and agriculture: Implications for food security and nutrition	22
Indigenous bone fertilizer for growth and food security: A local solution to a global challenge	22
Food security and poverty reduction effects of agricultural technologies adoption − a multinomial endogenous switching regression application in rural Zimbabwe	22
Assessing benefits of crop insurance vis-a-vis irrigation in Indian agriculture	22
Leveraging social protection to strengthen Women’s and Girls’ Climate-Resilience in agrifood systems	22
The impacts of integrating microfinance with agricultural extension on seasonal food insecurity: Evidence from a high-frequency panel survey in Uganda	22
Impact of global value chains on tariffs and non-tariff measures in agriculture and food	22
Do food safety certifications improve the safety of our food system? evidence from the U.S. Meat, Poultry, and egg industry	22
Can unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) adoption reduce pesticide use and enhance yields? Evidence from mountainous rice farming in Yunnan, China	21
Does school lunch equalize? An examination of dietary quality and socioeconomic disparities in Germany	21
Dollar store impact on local labor markets and retail activity	21
Tariffs and U.S. beer demand: How protectionist policies could impact market shares and consumer welfare	21
Refining pesticide use to reduce yield loss: How drone plant protection transforms smallholder pest management	21
Promises and uncertainties in the cultivated proteins market: Perspectives from Germany and Brazil	21
Childhood Can’t be too Sweet: The impact of information interventions on Sugar-Sweetened beverage consumption among children and adolescents	21
Women improving nutrition through self-help groups in India: Does nutrition information help?	20
Where is the value? The impacts of sow gestation crate laws on pork supply and consumer value perceptions	20
A critical review of EU agri-food policy impacts	20
Integrating system dynamics to value chain analysis to address price volatility in the Indonesian chilli value chain	19
Editorial Board	19
The state of global food insecurity measurement: A mix of methods, and a mix of messages	19
Modelled health impacts of three stakeholder-selected policies to support healthy and environmentally sustainable population diets in New Zealand	19
Near-real-time welfare and livelihood impacts of an active war: Evidence from Ethiopia	19
Can differentiated value-added tax rates promote healthier diets? The case of Costa Rica	19
Nudging greater vegetable intake and less food waste: A field experiment	19
Value of certification in collective reputation crises: Evidence from Chinese dairy firms	19
Farmland Leasing, misallocation Reduction, and agricultural total factor Productivity: Insights from rice production in China	19
Measuring the impact of food rescue: A social return on investment analysis	19
Beyond information: The power of personalized nudges in promoting vegetable purchases	19
An unknown known: Knowledge, preferences, and acceptance of the Common Agricultural Policy	19
The policy relevance of maximum residue limits analyses	19
Would you buy vegan meatballs? The policy issues around vegan and meat-sounding labelling of plant-based meat alternatives	18
How does global agricultural research and innovation cooperation influence agricultural R&I system transformation in the South? Evidence from UK-China cooperation	18
Employment and wage effects of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and front-of-package warning label regulations on the food and beverage industry: Evidence from Peru	18
Do color-coded Nutrition Facts Panels nudge the use of nutrition information?	18
Cost and affordability of recommended diets in Rwanda using [near] real-time market data	18
Do the benefits of improved management practices to nutritional outcomes “dry up” in the presence of drought? Evidence from East Africa	18
Impact of agricultural commercialization on child nutrition in Ethiopia	18
Strait of Hormuz disruption, fertilizer market transmission, and food policy response	18
Mobile money, transaction costs, and market participation: evidence from Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania	18
Submitted and Denied: Understanding variation in case status across Supplemental Nutrition assistance program (SNAP) applications	18
Gender and food systems: Are global recommendations for sustainable food systems transformation also gender transformative?	17
Citizen voice and state response in the context of food system transformations	17
Integrating social vulnerability into food fraud vulnerability assessment: policy implications for authenticity in Spanish honey	17
Legal responsibility and regulatory compliance with food information on e-grocery platforms: an Italian case study offering insights for future policies and consumer protection in the European context	17
Impact of food hubs on food security and sustainability: Food hubs perspectives from Leeds, UK	17
Editorial Board	16
Food safety, sampling inspection and optimization of regulatory resource allocation: Evidence from China’s aquatic food inspection	16
Public agriculture investment and food security in ECOWAS	16
Trade effects of voluntary sustainability standards in tropical commodity sectors	16
Public support for food subsidy and tax scenarios to promote healthy and sustainable diets: Evidence from deliberative forums in two UK locations	16
Stocks and shocks: Assessing the relative roles of public and private inventories in buffering rice price volatility in the Philippines	16
‘Because of its size, it’s not worth it!’: The viability of small-scale geographical indication schemes	16
Factors associated with harvest and postharvest loss among soybean farmers in Western Paraná State, Brazil	16
Evaluating cereal market (dis)integration in less developed and fragile markets: The case of Sudan	16
Food price stabilization: theory and lessons from experience	16
Do taxes on groceries increase body weight and restaurant food expenditures? Theory and evidence from the PSID data	15
When increasing vegetable production may worsen food availability gaps: A simulation model in India	15
From brand to prosperity: the impact of agricultural regional public brands on local economic growth in China	15
Editorial Board	15
Shocked into side-selling? Production shocks and organic coffee farmers’ marketing decisions	15
Comparative resilience of US and EU meat processing to the Covid19 pandemic	15
Global poverty and the cost of a healthy diet	15
Editorial: Introducing Policy Comments	15
Ethnicity, information and cooperation: Evidence from a group-based nutrition intervention	15
Experience-based food insecurity and agricultural productivity in Nigeria	15
Viewpoint: Finance needs of the agricultural midstream	15
Understanding SNAP: An overview of recent research	15