OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agriculture and Human Values is 6. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Digitalization and the third food regime	84
Understanding the public attitudinal acceptance of digital farming technologies: a nationwide survey in Germany	61
Promises of meat and milk alternatives: an integrative literature review on emergent research themes	56
New but for whom? Discourses of innovation in precision agriculture	53
Democratizing ownership and participation in the 4th Industrial Revolution: challenges and opportunities in cellular agriculture	48
Citizen views on genome editing: effects of species and purpose	31
Blended finance for agriculture: exploring the constraints and possibilities of combining financial instruments for sustainable transitions	31
Transforming landscapes and mindscapes through regenerative agriculture	29
‘Workable utopias’ for social change through inclusion and empowerment? Community supported agriculture (CSA) in Wales as social innovation	26
When farmers are pulled in too many directions: comparing institutional drivers of food safety and environmental sustainability in California agriculture	25
Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores	24
Framing of sustainable agricultural practices by the farming press and its effect on adoption	24
Growing pains in local food systems: a longitudinal social network analysis on local food marketing in Baltimore County, Maryland and Chester County, Pennsylvania	23
Social justice-oriented narratives in European urban food strategies: Bringing forward redistribution, recognition and representation	23
Regulating surplus: charity and the legal geographies of food waste enclosure	22
The power to convene: making sense of the power of food movement organizations in governance processes in the Global North	22
Food justice for all?: searching for the ‘justice multiple’ in UK food movements	21
The invisible labor and multidimensional impacts of negotiating childcare on farms	21
‘I will know it when I taste it’: trust, food materialities and social media in Chinese alternative food networks	21
Can agroecology and CRISPR mix? The politics of complementarity and moving toward technology sovereignty	20
Epic narratives of the Green Revolution in Brazil, China, and India	20
Hitting the target and missing the point? On the risks of measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development	20
Sustainability transitions in the context of pandemic: an introduction to the focused issue on social innovation and systemic impact	20
Political economy challenges for climate smart agriculture in Africa	18
Genome-edited versus genetically-modified tomatoes: an experiment on people’s perceptions and acceptance of food biotechnology in the UK and Switzerland	17

Moving beyond direct marketing with new mediated models: evolution of or departure from alternative food networks?	17
Perceptions of high-tech controlled environment agriculture among local food consumers: using interviews to explore sense-making and connections to good food	17
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements	17
Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’	16
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	16
Sustainability assessment of short food supply chains (SFSC): developing and testing a rapid assessment tool in one African and three European city regions	15
SNAP, campus food insecurity, and the politics of deservingness	15
The agroecological transition in Senegal: transnational links and uneven empowerment	15
Engagement with conservation tillage shaped by “good farmer” identity	15
Food support provision in COVID-19 times: a mixed method study based in Greater Manchester	15
In vino veritas, in aqua lucrum: Farmland investment, environmental uncertainty, and groundwater access in California’s Cuyama Valley	15
Food democracy: possibilities under the frame of the current food system	15
Locked-in or ready for climate change mitigation? Agri-food networks as structures for dairy-beef farming	14
Gender equity, labor rights, and women’s empowerment: lessons from Fairtrade certification in Ecuador flower plantations	14
Examining farmers’ adoption of nutrient management best management practices: a social cognitive framework	14
Commoning the seeds: alternative models of collective action and open innovation within French peasant seed groups for recreating local knowledge commons	13
Using smartphone app collected data to explore the link between mechanization and intra-household allocation of time in Zambia	13
Domestication, crop breeding, and genetic modification are fundamentally different processes: implications for seed sovereignty and agrobiodiversity	13
Combining the best of two methodological worlds? Integrating Q methodology-based farmer archetypes in a quantitative model of agri-environmental scheme uptake	13
Regenerative agriculture and a more-than-human ethic of care: a relational approach to understanding transformation	13
Overcoming the social stigma of consuming food waste by dining at the Open Table	13
Producer organizations as transition intermediaries? Insights from organic and conventional vegetable systems in Uruguay	13
Transforming a traditional commons-based seed system through collaborative networks of farmer seed-cooperatives and public breeding programs: the case of sorghum in Mali	13
Enhancing farmers’ agency in the global crop commons through use of biocultural community protocols	12
The value of values-based supply chains: farmer perspective	12
Is there a convincing case for climate veganism?	12
Replacing humans with machines: a historical look at technology politics in California agriculture	12
Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture “frontiers”	12
Seeking justice, eating toxics: overlooked contaminants in urban community gardens	12
Pathways towards coexistence with large carnivores in production systems	11
Preserving cultural heritage through the valorization of Cordillera heirloom rice in the Philippines	11
Virtualizing the ‘good life’: reworking narratives of agrarianism and the rural idyll in a computer game	11
Building and transforming collective agency and collective identity to address Latinx farmworkers’ needs and challenges in rural Vermont	11
Farmer perspectives on farmers markets in low-income urban areas: a case study in three Michigan cities	11
Critical environmental justice and the nature of the firm	11
Constructing agri-food for finance: startups, venture capital and food future imaginaries	11
Let the people decide: citizen deliberation on the role of GMOs in Mali’s agriculture	10
The embodied precarity of year-round agricultural work: health and safety risks among Latino/a immigrant dairy farmworkers in New York	10
Restoring sense out of disorder? Farmers’ changing social identities under big data and algorithms	10
Social finance for sustainable food systems: opportunities, tensions and ambiguities	10
Ecological regulation for healthy and sustainable food systems: responding to the global rise of ultra-processed foods	10
Power to the people? Food democracy initiatives’ contributions to democratic goods	10
Women, race and place in US Agriculture	10
Innovation and the commons: lessons from the governance of genetic resources in potato breeding	10
Regenerative food systems and the conservation of change	10
Assembling agroecological socio-natures: a political ecology analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Rosario, Argentina	10
Farming futures: Perspectives of Irish agricultural stakeholders on data sharing and data governance	10
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems: insights from South Korea’s universal free, eco-friendly school lunch program	10
Disrupted gender roles in Australian agriculture: first generation female farmers’ construction of farming identity	9
The old, the new, or the old made new? Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution	9

Translating land justice through comparison: a US–French dialogue and research agenda	9
With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies	9
Veganic farming in the United States: farmer perceptions, motivations, and experiences	9
From evidence to value-based transition: the agroecological redesign of farming systems	9
Beyond the material: knowledge aspects in seed commoning	9
Can a robot be an expert? The social meaning of skill and its expression through the prospect of autonomous AgTech	9
Reflexive policies and the complex socio-ecological systems of the upland landscapes in Indonesia	9
Agroecological producers shortening food chains during Covid-19: opportunities and challenges in Costa Rica	9
The project, the everyday, and reflexivity in sociotechnical agri-food assemblages: proposing a conceptual model of digitalisation	9
A genealogy of sustainable agriculture narratives: implications for the transformative potential of regenerative agriculture	9
Decolonizing agriculture in the United States: Centering the knowledges of women and people of color to support relational farming practices	9
Community seed network in an era of climate change: dynamics of maize diversity in Yucatán, Mexico	8
Social entrepreneurship and impact investment in rural–urban transformation: An orientation to systemic social innovation and symposium findings	8
Negotiating agricultural change in the Midwestern US: seeking compatibility between farmer narratives of efficiency and legacy	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
From Big Ag to Big Finance: a market network approach to power in agriculture	8
Ecovillage foodscapes: zooming in and out of sustainable food practices	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
How animal agriculture stakeholders define, perceive, and are impacted by antimicrobial resistance: challenging the Wellcome Trust’s Reframing Resistance principles	8
Behind the scenes of a learning agri-food value chain: lessons from action research	8
More bytes per acre: do vertical farming’s land sparing promises stand on solid ground?	8
Food insecurity and the covid pandemic: uneven impacts for food bank systems in Europe	8
A farm systems approach to the adoption of sustainable nitrogen management practices in California	8
Cacao cultivation as a livelihood strategy: contributions to the well-being of Colombian rural households	8
Fixing food with a limited menu: on (digital) solutionism in the agri-food tech sector	8
Seeing the workers for the trees: exalted and devalued manual labour in the Pacific Northwest craft cider industry	8
Ag-tech, agroecology, and the politics of alternative farming futures: The challenges of bringing together diverse agricultural epistemologies	8
Farm-level pathways to food security: beyond missing markets and irrational peasants	8
Does direct farm marketing fulfill its promises? analyzing job satisfaction among direct-market farmers in Canada	8
Everyday digitalization in food and agriculture: Introduction to the symposium	7
Narrating agricultural resilience after Hurricane María: how smallholder farmers in Puerto Rico leverage self-sufficiency and collaborative agency in a climate-vulnerable food system	7
Priming the pump of impact entrepreneurship and social finance in China	7
Understanding the challenges faced by Michigan’s family farmers: race/ethnicity and the impacts of a pandemic	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
Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue	7
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt: the role of one formal farmer network, Practical Farmers of Iowa	7
Bt cotton, pink bollworm, and the political economy of sociobiological obsolescence: insights from Telangana, India	7
Prison agriculture in the United States: racial capitalism and the disciplinary matrix of exploitation and rehabilitation	7
Introduction to the symposium: seed as a commons—exploring innovative concepts and practices of governing seed and varieties	7
How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships	6
What is a food system? Exploring enactments of the food system multiple	6
Reuniting the Three Sisters: collaborative science with Native growers to improve soil and community health	6
A review of megatrends in the global dairy sector: what are the socioecological implications?	6
Agroecology from the ground up: a critical analysis of sustainable soil management in the highlands of Guatemala	6
Food sovereignty policies and the quest to democratize food system governance in Nicaragua	6
Relating inclusive innovations to Indigenous and local knowledge: a conceptual framework	6
Moving towards an anti-colonial definition for regenerative agriculture	6
Navigating the information landscape: public and private information source access by midwest farmers	6
Food sovereignty and sustainability mid-pandemic: how Michigan’s experience of Covid-19 highlights chasms in the food system	6
Tackling land’s ‘stubborn materiality’: the interplay of imaginaries, data and digital technologies within farmland assetization	6
Bridging the rural–urban divide in social innovation transfer: the role of values	6
Persistent farmland imaginaries: celebration of fertile soil and the recurrent ignorance of climate	6
Scholars as allies in the struggle for food systems transformation	6
Social science – STEM collaborations in agriculture, food and beyond: an STSFAN manifesto	6
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	6
Growing pains: Small-scale farmer responses to an urban rooftop farming and online marketplace enterprise in Montréal, Canada	6
Using fuzzy cognitive mapping and social capital to explain differences in sustainability perceptions between farmers in the northeast US and Denmark	6
Southern sustainability initiatives in agricultural value chains: a question of enhanced inclusiveness? The case of Trustea in India	6
How many chickens does it take to make an egg? Animal welfare and environmental benefits of replacing eggs with plant foods at the University of California, and beyond	6
Small farmers, big tech: agrarian commerce and knowledge on Myanmar Facebook	6
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides	6