OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability is 3. 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
Embedding digital agriculture into sustainable Australian food systems: pathways and pitfalls to value creation	37
Food security and climate-smart agriculture in the lower Mekong basin of Southeast Asia: evaluating impacts of system of rice intensification with special reference to rainfed agriculture	35
Farmers’ Organizations as innovation intermediaries for agroecological innovations in Burkina Faso	28
Four critical conditions for agroecological transitions in Europe	18
How agroecological rice intensification can assist in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals	17
Trade-offs, synergies and acceptability of climate smart agricultural practices by smallholder farmers in rural Ghana	17
Amaranth production and consumption in South Africa: the challenges of sustainability for food and nutrition security	17
The benefits and challenges of participating in Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) initiatives following institutional formalization in Chile	16
Growing maize landraces in industrialized countries: from the search for seeds to the emergence of new practices and values	15
Does mixing livestock farming enterprises improve farm and product sustainability?	15
Strengthening Conservation Agriculture innovation systems in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from a stakeholder analysis	15
Theory, Practice and Challenges of Agroecology in India	15
Adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies for vegetable production in rural Tanzania: trade-offs, complementarities and diffusion	14
No-till agriculture and the deception of sustainability in Brazil	14
Two enabling factors for farmer-driven pollinator protection in low- and middle-income countries	14
Social dimensions of multifunctional agriculture in Europe - towards an interdisciplinary framework	13
Factors affecting smallholder adoption of adaptation and coping measures to deal with rainfall variability	13
Farmers’ attitudes vs. government supervision: which one has a more significant impact on farmers’ pesticide use in China?	13
Economics of alternative models of organic farming: empirical evidences from zero budget natural farming and scientific organic farming in West Bengal, India	12
Farmer research networks in principle and practice	12
Trajectories of cropping system intensification under changing environment in south-west coastal Bangladesh	11
Contribution, prospects and trends of livestock production in sub-Saharan Africa: a review	11
Assessing the sustainability of agricultural production - a cross-sectoral comparison of the blackberry, tomato and tree tomato sectors in Ecuador	11
Food systems in transition: conceptualizing sustainable food entrepreneurship	11
Assessment of sustainable land use: linking land management practices to sustainable land use indicators	10

Farmers’ knowledge and perceptions on fruit flies and willingness to pay for a fruit fly integrated pest management strategy in Gamo Gofa zone, Ethiopia	10
Impact of human capital on technical efficiency in sustainable food crop production: a meta-analysis	10
Temperature effect on Brazilian soybean yields, and farmers’ responses	10
Seeds of resilience: the contribution of commons-based plant breeding and seed production to the social-ecological resilience of the agricultural sector	10
Barriers to sustainable intensification: overlooked disconnects between agricultural extension and farmer practice in maize-legume cropping systems in Tanzania	10
Impacts of non-agricultural livelihood transformation of smallholder farmers on agricultural system in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	10
Hand weeding tools in vegetable production systems: an agronomic, ergonomic and economic evaluation	9
Production efficiency and the role of collective actions among irrigated rice farms in Northern Thailand.	9
Effect of agricultural extension services in the post-reform era since the mid-2000s on pesticide use in China: evidence from rice production	9
Integrating farmers’ perception of sustainable agricultural technologies towards the development of sustainable tea production in China	9
Drivers and barriers in farmers’ adoption of vermicomposting as keys for sustainable agricultural waste management	9
Can traders help farmers transition towards more sustainable maize based farming systems? Evidence from the Lao-Vietnamese border	9
The effects of combined digital and human advisory services on reducing nitrogen fertilizer use: lessons from China’s national research programs on low carbon agriculture	9
Beyond diffusion to sustained adoption of innovation: A case of smallholder poultry development in sub-Saharan Africa	9
Competing fields in sustainable agriculture: on farmer-expert understandings of good farming, good farmers and organic farming	9
Measuring sustainability performance of rice cultivation in Thailand using Sustainable Rice Platform indicators	9
Multidimensional and multiscale assessment of agroecological transitions. A review	8
Can mechanized pesticide application help reduce pesticide use and increase crop yield? Evidence from rice farmers in Jiangsu province, China	8
Interactions between food and nutrition security and the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability in small-scale farms: evidence from a simultaneous confirmatory factor analysis i	8
Agro-food quality certification, agricultural organizations, and farm performance: evidence from vegetable farmers in China	8
Farmer collectives for more effective agri-environmental schemes? An assessment framework based on the concept of ‘professionalization’	8
Bringing sustainable agricultural intensification practices and technologies to scale through campaign-based extension approaches: lessons from Africa Soil Health Consortium	8
Sustainable rice production in Myanmar impacts on food security and livelihood changes	8
More than meat: the role of pigs in Timorese culture and the household economy	7
Factors affecting sustainable agricultural intensification in Burkina Faso	7
The battle of crops: unveiling the shift from grain to non-grain use of farmland in China?	7
Predictable patterns of unsustainable intensification	7
Farmers’ profiles and attitudes towards the implementation of rainwater harvesting systems in intensive agriculture	7
Farmers’ intention towards intercropping adoption: the role of socioeconomic and behavioural drivers	7
Soil health and gender: why and how to identify the linkages	7
The design and implementation of a distributed agricultural service system for smallholder farmers in China	7
The coffee value chain and its transition to sustainability in Brazil and Colombia from innovation system approach	7
The Top 100 questions for the sustainable intensification of agriculture in India’s rainfed drylands	6
Application of innovation platforms to catalyse adoption of conservation agriculture practices in South Asia	6
Cambodian rice farmers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) regarding insect pest management and pesticide use	6
A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil	6
Enterprise mix diversification: an option for ecologically sustainable food and nutritional security of small holders in Indo-Gangetic plains	6
Sustainable farmer-to-farmer extension – the experiences of private service providers in Zambia	6
Overcoming agricultural sustainability challenges in water-limited environments through soil health and water conservation: insights from the Ogallala Aquifer Region, USA	6
Water and economic productivity using different planting and irrigation methods under dry and wet seasons for wheat	6
Bringing evidence to bear for negotiating tradeoffs in sustainable agricultural intensification using a structured stakeholder engagement process	6
Vegetable cultivation as a diversification option for fruit farmers in the Goulburn Valley, Australia	5
How does internet use promote joint adoption of sustainable agricultural practices? Evidence from rice farmers in China	5
Cosmetic pesticide use: quantifying use and its policy implications in California, USA	5
Climate smart crop-livestock integrated farming as a sustainable agricultural strategy for humid tropical islands	5
Categorizing the sustainability of vegetable production in Chile: a farming typology approach	5
Drivers and challenges of large-scale conversion policies to organic and agro-chemical free agriculture in South Asia	5
Measuring household legume cultivation intensity in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Does adoption of cocoa hand pollination (CHP) improve welfare of farmers? Evidence from smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana	5
Continuing cereals research for sustainable health and well-being	5

Farmers’ knowledge and practices on pollination and insecticide use in cocoa farming in Ghana	5
Risk sharing, benefit distribution and cooperation longevity: sustainable development of dairy farmer cooperatives in China	5
Agriculture extensification and associated socio-ecological trade-offs in smallholder farming systems of Zambia	5
Evaluation of sustainability in strawberry crops production under greenhouse and open-field systems in the Andes	5
Exchange and experimentation: community seed banks strengthen farmers’ seed systems in Northern Malawi	5
Improving sustainable agriculture promotion: an explorative analysis of NRCS assistance programs and farmer perspectives	5
Sweet chestnut and agricultural development: a farmers’ perspective for Northern Greece	4
Manure matters: prospects for regional banana-livestock integration for sustainable intensification in South-West Uganda	4
How agro-environmental and climate measures are affecting farming system performances in Guadeloupe?: Lessons for the design of effective climate change policies	4
Conserving agrobiodiversity for sustainable food systems in the Hindu Kush Himalaya	4
Creole goats in Latin America and the Caribbean: a priceless resource to ensure the well-being of rural communities	4
Perception of the impacts of climate and environmental variability on water availability, irrigation and farming systems: a study in rural households of Awash River Basin, Ethiopia	4
Understanding the contexts of effectiveness of adaptation to climate change and variability: a qualitative study of smallholder farmers in central Ethiopia	4
Are multi-stakeholder platforms effective approaches to agri-food sustainability? Towards better assessment	4
Sustainability awareness in the Portuguese wine industry: a grounded theory approach	4
Strengthening decision-making on sustainable agricultural intensification through multi-stakeholder social learning in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Indicator-based analysis of organic farming in Romania. Regional spatial patterns	4
Laws and regulations enabling and restricting Africa’s vegetable seed sector	4
The implementation process of agriculture adaptation instruments to climate change. The invisibilization of European climate policy goals in French West indies’ banana Chain	4
Looking backward to find a path forward for the sustainable flow of suitable potato varieties to Eritrean potato farmers	4
Lessons on enabling African smallholder farmers, especially women and youth, to benefit from sustainable agricultural intensification	4
Farmers’ adaptation to climate change and crop yield: a case of Amuru and Apac districts of Northern Uganda	4
Making decisions about agroecological innovations: perspectives from members of farmers’ organizations in Burkina Faso	4
Understanding the complexities in the adoption of the Rice Crop Manager tool in the Philippines	3
Diverse crops and input subsidies: a village-scale analysis in Mali	3
Analysis of the determinants of sustainable agricultural technologies adoption in tea production in China: a systematic review	3
The effects of quality certification on agricultural low-carbon production behavior: evidence from Chinese rice farmers	3
Challenges of the Participatory Guarantee System of the network of agroecological markets of Bogota-Region, as a strategy for certification and promotion of agroecology	3
Professional farmer collectives for effective agri-environmental management: an assessment	3
Transition towards sustainable yak farming in Bhutan: stakeholders’ viewpoints and recommendations for future steps	3
Understanding the constraints and reasons to adopt natural farming - a study on rice growing farmers of Andhra Pradesh, India	3
The use of pre-crop values to improve farm performance: the case of dairy farms in southwest Finland	3
Do attributes of happy seeder technology influence its adoption speed? An investigation using duration analysis in Northern India	3
Improving agricultural sustainability through farm mergers: an energy efficiency perspective	3
On-farm post-harvest loss and loss reduction methods: evidence from China	3
Rising labour costs and the future of rubber intercropping in China	3
Assessing the effectiveness of cover crops on ecosystem services: a review of the benefits, challenges, and trade-offs	3
The association of farmers’ cognition, intention and behaviour towards sustainable intensification of cultivated land use in Shandong Province, China	3
Constraints to agricultural finance in underdeveloped and developing countries: a systematic literature review	3
Innovation systems for controlled-environment food production in urban contexts: a dynamic case study analysis of combined plant, fish and insect production in Berlin	3
The role of agro-input dealer certification in promoting sustainable pest control: insights from Uganda	3