OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Food Policy is 12. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Putting grocery food taxes on the table: Evidence for food security policy-makers	202
COVID-19 and food security: Panel data evidence from Nigeria	153
Estimating the market effect of a trade war: The case of soybean tariffs	135
Corrigendum to ”On the emission and distributional effects of a CO2eq-tax on agricultural goods—The case of Germany” [Food Policy 130 (2025) 102794]	126
The economics of reducing food losses: Experimental evidence from improved storage technology in India	99
Mobile money, transaction costs, and market participation: evidence from Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania	97
Viewpoint: Characterising early agricultural and food policy responses to the outbreak of COVID-19	97
Migration, gender labor division and food insecurity in Tajikistan	88
Public spending for agricultural risk management: Land use, regional welfare and intra-subsidy substitution	78
Please keep ordering! A natural field experiment assessing a carbon label introduction	76
The relation between contract type and market power: Evidence from a high-value crop in India	66
Labor force participation of rural women and the household’s nutrition: Panel data evidence from SAT India	58
Sustainable maize intensification through site-specific nutrient management advice: Experimental evidence from Nigeria	58
Greenhouse farming and employment: Evidence from Ecuador	55
Heterogenous correlates of mechanization use and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe: A quantile regression analysis	55
Editorial Board	52
Participant characteristics and learning outcomes: Lessons from international food safety capacity building	47
Food security from free collection of foods: Evidence from India	47
The importance of farm management training for the African rice Green Revolution: Experimental evidence from rainfed lowland areas in Mozambique	45
Editorial Board	44
Agri-food importing firms amid a global health crisis	43
Discursive framing in policies for restricting the marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages	43
Editorial Board	43
Flood-tolerant rice improves climate resilience, profitability, and household consumption in Bangladesh	42
Viewpoint: An assessment of recent SNAP benefit increases allowing for money and time variability	42

Editorial: Introducing virtual special collections	41
The EU’s pesticides MRLs harmonization: effect on trade, prices and quality	40
Impact of municipality-run discount stalls on price formation across the food supply chain	40
Measuring palatability as a linear combination of nutrient levels in food items	40
Viewpoint: The uptake of new crop science: Explaining success, and failure	40
Are small farms really more productive than large farms?	38
Impact assessment of salmon farming on income distribution in remote coastal areas: The Chilean case	38
Food industry influence in collaborative governance: The case of the Dutch prevention agreement on overweight	37
Viewpoint: A proposal to reconstruct the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into a universal basic income program for food	37
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	36
Would you buy vegan meatballs? The policy issues around vegan and meat-sounding labelling of plant-based meat alternatives	36
Why do people accept or reject climate policies targeting food consumption? Unpacking justifications in the public debate in online social forums	35
‘White flour, white sugar, white rice, white salt’: Barriers to achieving food and nutrition security in Kiribati	34
COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption	34
Is food labelling effective in reducing climate impact by encouraging the substitution of protein sources?	34
How do regional and demographic differences in diets affect the health and environmental impact in China?	33
Effect of input subsidies and extension services: Evidence from rice productivity in Bangladesh	33
Do color-coded Nutrition Facts Panels nudge the use of nutrition information?	32
Submitted and Denied: Understanding variation in case status across Supplemental Nutrition assistance program (SNAP) applications	32
Impacts of supermarkets on child nutrition in China	31
Beyond information: The power of personalized nudges in promoting vegetable purchases	30
Value of certification in collective reputation crises: Evidence from Chinese dairy firms	30
The role of poultry transfers in diet diversity: A cluster randomized intent to treat analysis	29
Consumer and retailer preferences for local ingredients in processed foods: Evidence from a stacked choice experiment in an African urban dairy market	29
Signaling quality in informal markets. Evidence from an experimental auction in the Sahel	29
Nationally representative estimates of the cost of adequate diets, nutrient level drivers, and policy options for households in rural Malawi	28
Reducing gender bias in household consumption data: Implications for food fortification policy	28
Viewpoint: High-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19: Good practices, open questions	28
Consumers’ valuation of a live video feed in restaurant kitchens for online food delivery service	27
Digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa: Why are they not at scale yet, and what will it take to get there?	27
Informal vendors and food systems planning in an emerging African city	27
Are the laws restricting the sale of food and beverages in school cafeterias associated with obesity in adolescents in Brazilian state capitals?	26
Impact of agricultural commercialization on child nutrition in Ethiopia	26
Growing exports through ISO 9001 quality certification: Firm-level evidence from Chinese agri-food sectors	26
Regulating menu information: What do consumers care and not care about at casual and fine dining restaurants for seafood consumption?	26
Social incentives as nudges for agricultural knowledge diffusion and willingness to pay for certified seeds: Experimental evidence from Uganda	25
Environmental efficiency and methane abatement costs of dairy farms from Minas Gerais, Brazil	24
Consumers’ valuation of cultured beef Burger: A Multi-Country investigation using choice experiments	24
Whose rights deserve protection? Framing analysis of responses to the 2016 Committee of Advertising Practice consultation on the non-broadcast advertising of foods and soft drinks to children	24
Impacts of agricultural incentive policies on land rental prices: New evidence from China	24
Sustainability, perceived quality and country of origin of farmed salmon: Impact on consumer choices in the USA, France and Japan	24
Review: Nudge interventions to promote healthy diets and physical activity	24
Aggregation models and small farm commercialization – A scoping review of the global literature	23
Time use and eating patterns of SNAP participants over the benefit month	23
Nudging greater vegetable intake and less food waste: A field experiment	23
Firm’s compliance behaviour towards food fortification regulations: Evidence from oil and salt producers in Bangladesh	23
Nudging farmers to reduce water pollution from nitrogen fertilizer	22
An emerging food policy domain: The effects of autonomous transport technologies on food access and consumption	22
The organizational challenge of international agricultural research: The fifty-year odyssey of the CGIAR	22
The effects of social norms and observability on food choice	22

Animal-sourced foods production and early childhood nutrition: Panel data evidence in central Madagascar	22
Trends in the school lunch program: Changes in selection, nutrition & health	22
Do the benefits of improved management practices to nutritional outcomes “dry up” in the presence of drought? Evidence from East Africa	21
Impact of food hubs on food security and sustainability: Food hubs perspectives from Leeds, UK	21
Between dissonance and confusion: When the Nutri-Score as a nutritional signal is misinterpreted	21
How do consumers respond to labels for crispr (gene-editing)?	20
Food for thought: A meta-analysis of animal food demand elasticities across world regions	20
Ozone stress and crop harvesting failure: Evidence from US food production	20
Reflections on food policy in the context of healthy and sustainable diets	20
Identity labels as an instrument to reduce meat demand and encourage consumption of plant based and cultured meat alternatives in China	20
Turning FOP nutrition labels into action: A systematic review of label+ interventions	19
Impact of climate smart agriculture on food security: An agent-based analysis	19
Knowledge and use of voluntary food and drink guidelines in English nurseries? Results from a nationally representative cross-sectional study	18
Information interventions and willingness to pay for PICS bags: Evidence from Sierra Leone	18
Agricultural mechanization and the performance of the local Chinese economy	18
Review: Effectiveness and policy implications of health taxes on foods high in fat, salt, and sugar	18
Viewpoint: Agri-nutrition research: Revisiting the contribution of maize and wheat to human nutrition and health	18
Perspectives on high U.S. retail food prices during 2020–2022	18
Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost-effective addition to high-frequency food security monitoring	18
Public preferences for meat tax attributes in The Netherlands: A discrete choice experiment	18
Does subsidizing legume seeds improve farm productivity and nutrition in Malawi?	17
Consumer food sustainability before and during the Covid-19 Crisis: A quantitative content analysis and food policy implications	17
Can differentiated value-added tax rates promote healthier diets? The case of Costa Rica	17
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	17
The impact of safety net programs on early-life developmental outcomes	17
Assessing consumers’ valuation for Front-of-Package ‘Health’ labeling under FDA guidelines	17
Exposure to agricultural technologies and adoption: The West Africa agricultural productivity program in Ghana, Senegal and Mali	17
Does distributing SNAP benefits later in the month smooth expenditures?	17
How does global agricultural research and innovation cooperation influence agricultural R&I system transformation in the South? Evidence from UK-China cooperation	17
Editorial Board	17
How to incentivize peanut producers to adopt post-harvest aflatoxin control measures: A field experiment in Haiti	16
Editorial Board	16
Diet quality and micronutrient intakes in nutritional value chains: A synthesis and suggestions for further research	16
True to type? EU-style date marking and the valuation of perishable food	16
Can changing the meal sequence in school canteens reduce vegetable food waste? A cluster randomized control trial	16
A new global database on agriculture investment and capital stock	16
Editorial Board	15
Food system labor and bargaining power	15
Labor calendars and rural poverty: A case study for Malawi	15
Evaluating cereal market (dis)integration in less developed and fragile markets: The case of Sudan	15
Processed foods, socio-economic status, and peri-urban obesity in India	15
‘Because of its size, it’s not worth it!’: The viability of small-scale geographical indication schemes	15
Appealing to generosity to reduce food calorie intake: A natural field experiment	15
Editorial Board	15
Getting past the gatekeeper: Key motivations of dairy farmer intent to adopt animal health and welfare-improving biotechnology	15
Editorial Board	15
Introducing an aflatoxin-safe labeling program in complex food supply chains: Evidence from a choice experiment in Nigeria	14
Aspirations, risk preferences, and investments in agricultural technologies	14
Editorial Board	14
The role of quality characteristics in pricing hard red winter wheat	14
How well is humanitarian assistance targeted in fragile environments? Evidence from the announcement of a food emergency in Yemen	14
The 2019 government shutdown increased uncertainty in major agricultural commodity markets	14
Information avoidance behavior: Does ignorance keep us uninformed about antimicrobial resistance?	13
A case for measuring negative willingness to pay for consumer goods	13
Factors associated with harvest and postharvest loss among soybean farmers in Western Paraná State, Brazil	13
The impact of futures contract storage rate policy on convergence expectations in domestic commodity markets	13
The effect of agricultural programs on dietary diversity and food security: Insights from the smallholder productivity promotion program in Zambia	13
Can government investment in food pantries decrease food insecurity?	13
COVID-19 risk perception and restaurant utilization after easing in-person restrictions	13
The international trade impacts of Geographical Indications: Hype or hope?	13
Measure of indigenous perennial staple crop, Ensete ventricosum, associated with positive food security outcomes in southern Ethiopian highlands	13
An evaluation of four private animal health and welfare standards and associated quality assurance programmes for dairy cow production	13
The effects of the Chilean food policy package on aggregate employment and real wages	12
How policy actors assert authority in the governance of food marketing policies	12
Disparate access to quality land and fertilizers explain Malawi’s gender yield gap	12
Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security	12
Influence of sociodemographic and lifestyle factors on taxed sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Thailand	12
Eating groups within households: Differentiation in food consumption by age, gender, and genealogical position in rural Burkina Faso	12
Measuring women's empowerment in agriculture, food production, and child and maternal dietary diversity in Timor-Leste	12
Resolving the reality gap in farm regulation voting models	12
Journal submissions, review and editorial decision patterns during initial COVID-19 restrictions	12
An evaluation of the healthier dining programme effects on university student and staff choices in Singapore: A cluster-randomized trial	12
Geographical indications and trade: Firm-level evidence from the French cheese industry	12
Understanding drivers of private-sector compliance to large-scale food fortification: A case study on edible oil value chains in Bangladesh	12
Wine: The punching bag in trade retaliation	12
Consumer preference for food products addressing multiple dimensions of poverty: Evidence from China	12
Consumer purchasing response to mandatory genetically engineered labeling	12