OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agriculture and Human Values is 5. 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
Promises of meat and milk alternatives: an integrative literature review on emergent research themes	63
New but for whom? Discourses of innovation in precision agriculture	56
Democratizing ownership and participation in the 4th Industrial Revolution: challenges and opportunities in cellular agriculture	54
Transforming landscapes and mindscapes through regenerative agriculture	37
Citizen views on genome editing: effects of species and purpose	33
Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores	28
Framing of sustainable agricultural practices by the farming press and its effect on adoption	25
Social justice-oriented narratives in European urban food strategies: Bringing forward redistribution, recognition and representation	24
Growing pains in local food systems: a longitudinal social network analysis on local food marketing in Baltimore County, Maryland and Chester County, Pennsylvania	24
Epic narratives of the Green Revolution in Brazil, China, and India	23
Perceptions of high-tech controlled environment agriculture among local food consumers: using interviews to explore sense-making and connections to good food	21
Can agroecology and CRISPR mix? The politics of complementarity and moving toward technology sovereignty	21
Genome-edited versus genetically-modified tomatoes: an experiment on people’s perceptions and acceptance of food biotechnology in the UK and Switzerland	21
Hitting the target and missing the point? On the risks of measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development	20
Moving beyond direct marketing with new mediated models: evolution of or departure from alternative food networks?	19
SNAP, campus food insecurity, and the politics of deservingness	18
Sustainability assessment of short food supply chains (SFSC): developing and testing a rapid assessment tool in one African and three European city regions	18
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements	18
Using the ‘good farmer’ concept to explore agricultural attitudes to the provision of public goods. A case study of participants in an English agri-environment scheme	18
Engagement with conservation tillage shaped by “good farmer” identity	17
Food support provision in COVID-19 times: a mixed method study based in Greater Manchester	17
Domestication, crop breeding, and genetic modification are fundamentally different processes: implications for seed sovereignty and agrobiodiversity	17
Examining farmers’ adoption of nutrient management best management practices: a social cognitive framework	16
The agroecological transition in Senegal: transnational links and uneven empowerment	15
A review of megatrends in the global dairy sector: what are the socioecological implications?	15

Producer organizations as transition intermediaries? Insights from organic and conventional vegetable systems in Uruguay	15
Food democracy: possibilities under the frame of the current food system	15
Replacing humans with machines: a historical look at technology politics in California agriculture	15
Regenerative agriculture and a more-than-human ethic of care: a relational approach to understanding transformation	15
Assembling agroecological socio-natures: a political ecology analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Rosario, Argentina	14
Restoring sense out of disorder? Farmers’ changing social identities under big data and algorithms	14
Regenerative food systems and the conservation of change	13
Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture “frontiers”	13
Combining the best of two methodological worlds? Integrating Q methodology-based farmer archetypes in a quantitative model of agri-environmental scheme uptake	13
Ecological regulation for healthy and sustainable food systems: responding to the global rise of ultra-processed foods	13
Critical environmental justice and the nature of the firm	13
Overcoming the social stigma of consuming food waste by dining at the Open Table	13
Seeking justice, eating toxics: overlooked contaminants in urban community gardens	13
Farming futures: Perspectives of Irish agricultural stakeholders on data sharing and data governance	12
Women, race and place in US Agriculture	12
Power to the people? Food democracy initiatives’ contributions to democratic goods	12
The value of values-based supply chains: farmer perspective	12
Constructing agri-food for finance: startups, venture capital and food future imaginaries	12
Enhancing farmers’ agency in the global crop commons through use of biocultural community protocols	12
Is there a convincing case for climate veganism?	12
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt: the role of one formal farmer network, Practical Farmers of Iowa	12
The old, the new, or the old made new? Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution	11
Let the people decide: citizen deliberation on the role of GMOs in Mali’s agriculture	11
Food insecurity and the covid pandemic: uneven impacts for food bank systems in Europe	11
The embodied precarity of year-round agricultural work: health and safety risks among Latino/a immigrant dairy farmworkers in New York	11
A genealogy of sustainable agriculture narratives: implications for the transformative potential of regenerative agriculture	11
Pathways towards coexistence with large carnivores in production systems	11
Disrupted gender roles in Australian agriculture: first generation female farmers’ construction of farming identity	11
Translating land justice through comparison: a US–French dialogue and research agenda	11
Can a robot be an expert? The social meaning of skill and its expression through the prospect of autonomous AgTech	11
Decolonizing agriculture in the United States: Centering the knowledges of women and people of color to support relational farming practices	11
Community seed network in an era of climate change: dynamics of maize diversity in Yucatán, Mexico	10
Narrating agricultural resilience after Hurricane María: how smallholder farmers in Puerto Rico leverage self-sufficiency and collaborative agency in a climate-vulnerable food system	10
The project, the everyday, and reflexivity in sociotechnical agri-food assemblages: proposing a conceptual model of digitalisation	10
Does direct farm marketing fulfill its promises? analyzing job satisfaction among direct-market farmers in Canada	10
Social finance for sustainable food systems: opportunities, tensions and ambiguities	10
With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies	10
Veganic farming in the United States: farmer perceptions, motivations, and experiences	10
Moving towards an anti-colonial definition for regenerative agriculture	9
Prison agriculture in the United States: racial capitalism and the disciplinary matrix of exploitation and rehabilitation	9
Cacao cultivation as a livelihood strategy: contributions to the well-being of Colombian rural households	9
Negotiating agricultural change in the Midwestern US: seeking compatibility between farmer narratives of efficiency and legacy	9
Understanding the challenges faced by Michigan’s family farmers: race/ethnicity and the impacts of a pandemic	9
More bytes per acre: do vertical farming’s land sparing promises stand on solid ground?	9
A farm systems approach to the adoption of sustainable nitrogen management practices in California	9
Reflexive policies and the complex socio-ecological systems of the upland landscapes in Indonesia	9
Understanding the pathways to women’s empowerment in Northern Ghana and the relationship with small-scale irrigation	9
Fixing food with a limited menu: on (digital) solutionism in the agri-food tech sector	9
Farm-level pathways to food security: beyond missing markets and irrational peasants	9
Ecovillage foodscapes: zooming in and out of sustainable food practices	9

From evidence to value-based transition: the agroecological redesign of farming systems	9
Agroecological producers shortening food chains during Covid-19: opportunities and challenges in Costa Rica	9
How animal agriculture stakeholders define, perceive, and are impacted by antimicrobial resistance: challenging the Wellcome Trust’s Reframing Resistance principles	9
Tackling land’s ‘stubborn materiality’: the interplay of imaginaries, data and digital technologies within farmland assetization	8
From Big Ag to Big Finance: a market network approach to power in agriculture	8
Seeing the workers for the trees: exalted and devalued manual labour in the Pacific Northwest craft cider industry	8
Behind the scenes of a learning agri-food value chain: lessons from action research	8
Social norms and perceptions drive women’s participation in agricultural decisions in West Java, Indonesia	8
AFHVS 2020 presidential address: pushing beyond the boundaries	8
Ag-tech, agroecology, and the politics of alternative farming futures: The challenges of bringing together diverse agricultural epistemologies	8
Superweed amaranth: metaphor and the power of a threatening discourse	8
The adoption problem is a matter of fit: tracing the travel of pruning practices from research to farm in Ghana’s cocoa sector	8
Navigating the information landscape: public and private information source access by midwest farmers	8
Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue	8
Landownership and power: reorienting land tenure theory	7
Social science – STEM collaborations in agriculture, food and beyond: an STSFAN manifesto	7
Bt cotton, pink bollworm, and the political economy of sociobiological obsolescence: insights from Telangana, India	7
Reuniting the Three Sisters: collaborative science with Native growers to improve soil and community health	7
Using fuzzy cognitive mapping and social capital to explain differences in sustainability perceptions between farmers in the northeast US and Denmark	7
Agroecology from the ground up: a critical analysis of sustainable soil management in the highlands of Guatemala	7
Everyday digitalization in food and agriculture: Introduction to the symposium	7
Inserting machines, displacing people: how automation imaginaries for agriculture promise ‘liberation’ from the industrialized farm	7
The digital labor of ethical food consumption: a new research agenda for studying everyday food digitalization	7
Governing the soil: natural farming and bionationalism in India	7
Small farmers, big tech: agrarian commerce and knowledge on Myanmar Facebook	7
Strategic framing of genome editing in agriculture: an analysis of the debate in Germany in the run-up to the European Court of Justice ruling	7
Policy responses to foodborne disease outbreaks in the United States and Germany	7
Aspirations undone: hydropower and the (re) shaping of livelihood pathways in Northern Laos	7
‘They call it progress, but we don’t see it as progress’: farm consolidation and land concentration in Saskatchewan, Canada	7
“How do we measure justice?”: missions and metrics in urban agriculture	6
Scholars as allies in the struggle for food systems transformation	6
Can agriculture and conservation be compatible in a coastal wetland? Balancing stakeholders’ narratives and interactions in the management of El Hondo Natural Park, Spain	6
Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: a case study of farmers in Québec, Canada	6
The rise and decline of farmers markets in greater Cincinnati	6
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides	6
What is a food system? Exploring enactments of the food system multiple	6
Alternative Food Networks in Latin America—exploring PGS (Participatory Guarantee Systems) markets and their consumers: a cross-country comparison	6
Relating inclusive innovations to Indigenous and local knowledge: a conceptual framework	6
Food sovereignty and sustainability mid-pandemic: how Michigan’s experience of Covid-19 highlights chasms in the food system	6
Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events	5
Labour relations and working conditions of workers on smallholder cocoa farms in Ghana	5
Gender, women and agriculture in Agriculture and Human Values	5
The contestations of diversity, culture and commercialization: why tissue culture technology alone cannot solve the banana Xanthomonas wilt problem in central Uganda	5
Exploring the influence of social and informational networks on small farmers’ responses to climate change in Oregon	5
Local food systems, citizen and public science, empowered communities, and democracy: hopes deserving to live	5
Unearthing the entangled roots of urban agriculture	5
Social reproduction, playful work, and bee-centred beekeeping	5
A transdisciplinary study of agroecological niches: understanding sustainability transitions in vineyards	5
Identifying public trust building priorities of gene editing in agriculture and food	5
Boundary politics and the social imaginary for sustainable food systems	5
Does adopting a nitrogen best management practice reduce nitrogen fertilizer rates?	5
Rethinking gender mainstreaming in agricultural innovation policy in Nepal: a critical gender analysis	5
Exploring the mechanisms behind farmers’ perceptions of nutrient loss risk	5
Making plant pathology algorithmically recognizable	5
Applying the feminist agrifood systems theory (fast) to U.S. organic, value-added, and non-organic non-value-added farms	5
Revisiting the adequacy of the economic policy narrative underpinning the Green Revolution	5
“Whose demand?” The co-construction of markets, demand and gender in development-oriented crop breeding	5