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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Tapping the full potential of the digital revolution for agricultural extension: an emerging innovation agenda	52
Adoption by adaptation: moving from Conservation Agriculture to conservation practices	30
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	30
Embedding digital agriculture into sustainable Australian food systems: pathways and pitfalls to value creation	29
Conservation Agriculture: factors and drivers of adoption and scalable innovative practices in Indo-Gangetic plains of India– a review	28
Using co-constructed mental models to understand stakeholder perspectives on agro-ecology	28
Going digital in agriculture: how radio and SMS can scale-up smallholder participation in legume-based sustainable agricultural intensification practices and technologies in Tanzania	27
Do farmers care about pollinators? A cross-site comparison of farmers’ perceptions, knowledge, and management practices for pollinator-dependent crops	24
Do community seed banks contribute to the social-ecological resilience of communities? A case-study from western Guatemala	24
Generational dynamics of agricultural intensification in Malawi: challenges for the youth and elderly smallholder farmers	23
The effects of agroecological farming systems on smallholder livelihoods: a case study on push–pull system from Western Kenya	23
Zero-tillage wheat provides stable yield and economic benefits under diverse growing season climates in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains	23
Supporting smallholders’ decision making: managing trade-offs and synergies for sustainable agricultural intensification	22
Do voluntary certification standards improve yields and wellbeing? Evidence from oil palm and cocoa smallholders in Ghana	20
Farmers’ Organizations as innovation intermediaries for agroecological innovations in Burkina Faso	20
Changing agricultural stubble burning practices in the Indo-Gangetic plains: is the Happy Seeder a profitable alternative?	19
Four critical conditions for agroecological transitions in Europe	17
Sustainable agricultural intensification and gender-biased land tenure systems: an exploration and conceptualization of interactions	15
Rice farmers adapting to drought in the Philippines	14
The benefits and challenges of participating in Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) initiatives following institutional formalization in Chile	14
Forget opinion leaders: the role of social network brokers in the adoption of innovative farming practices in North-western Cambodia	14
Understanding and informing decisions on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa	14
No-till agriculture and the deception of sustainability in Brazil	14
Amaranth production and consumption in South Africa: the challenges of sustainability for food and nutrition security	13
Scalability of Adaptation strategies to drought stress: the case of drought tolerant maize varieties in Kenya	13

Does mixing livestock farming enterprises improve farm and product sustainability?	13
Strengthening Conservation Agriculture innovation systems in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from a stakeholder analysis	12
Two enabling factors for farmer-driven pollinator protection in low- and middle-income countries	12
How agroecological rice intensification can assist in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals	12
Participatory system of guarantees – PSG of the Red de Mercados Agroecológicos de Bogotá Región RMABR. A contribution to the sustainability of agroecological producers and markets	12
Growing maize landraces in industrialized countries: from the search for seeds to the emergence of new practices and values	12
Theory, Practice and Challenges of Agroecology in India	12
Research perspectives on paddy field systems: ecological functions and environmental impacts	11
Games as boundary objects: charting trade-offs in sustainable livestock transformation	11
Farmer research networks in principle and practice	11
Adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies for vegetable production in rural Tanzania: trade-offs, complementarities and diffusion	11
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
Sustainable farmers, deficient State? Self-reported agricultural sustainability in the Argentine Chaco region	10
Sustainability of agroecological interventions in small scale farming systems in the Western Highlands of Guatemala	10
Tailoring legume seed markets for smallholder farmers in Africa	10
Trajectories of cropping system intensification under changing environment in south-west coastal Bangladesh	10
Trade-offs, synergies and acceptability of climate smart agricultural practices by smallholder farmers in rural Ghana	10
Factors affecting smallholder adoption of adaptation and coping measures to deal with rainfall variability	10
Food systems in transition: conceptualizing sustainable food entrepreneurship	10
Farmers’ attitudes vs. government supervision: which one has a more significant impact on farmers’ pesticide use in China?	10
Looking into the future of organic tea production and sustainable farming: a systematic review	9
Seeds of resilience: the contribution of commons-based plant breeding and seed production to the social-ecological resilience of the agricultural sector	9
Can traders help farmers transition towards more sustainable maize based farming systems? Evidence from the Lao-Vietnamese border	9
Participatory seed projects and agroecological landscape knowledge in Central America	9
Impacts of non-agricultural livelihood transformation of smallholder farmers on agricultural system in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	9
Social dimensions of multifunctional agriculture in Europe - towards an interdisciplinary framework	9
Conservation agriculture as a climate change mitigation strategy in Zimbabwe	9
A gendered ecosystem services approach to identify novel and locally-relevant strategies for jointly improving food security, nutrition, and conservation in the Barotse Floodplain	8
Barriers to sustainable intensification: overlooked disconnects between agricultural extension and farmer practice in maize-legume cropping systems in Tanzania	8
Gender- and youth-sensitive data collection tools to support decision making for inclusive sustainable agricultural intensification	8
Impact of human capital on technical efficiency in sustainable food crop production: a meta-analysis	8
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	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
The coffee value chain and its transition to sustainability in Brazil and Colombia from innovation system approach	8
Effect of agricultural extension services in the post-reform era since the mid-2000s on pesticide use in China: evidence from rice production	8
Hand weeding tools in vegetable production systems: an agronomic, ergonomic and economic evaluation	8
COVID 19: Lets act now: the urgent need for upscaling agroecology in Uganda (2020)	8
Competing fields in sustainable agriculture: on farmer-expert understandings of good farming, good farmers and organic farming	8
Assessing the sustainability of agricultural production - a cross-sectoral comparison of the blackberry, tomato and tree tomato sectors in Ecuador	8
Farmer collectives for more effective agri-environmental schemes? An assessment framework based on the concept of ‘professionalization’	7
Will teaching sustainability standards to oil palm smallholders in Indonesia pay off?	7
Beyond diffusion to sustained adoption of innovation: A case of smallholder poultry development in sub-Saharan Africa	7
Temperature effect on Brazilian soybean yields, and farmers’ responses	7
Are farmer producer companies ready to behave as business entities? Insights from the vegetable-based farmer companies in West Bengal, India	7
Economics of alternative models of organic farming: empirical evidences from zero budget natural farming and scientific organic farming in West Bengal, India	7
Soil health and gender: why and how to identify the linkages	7
Enhancing wheat production and food security in Sudan through scaling up improved technologies using innovation platforms	7
Sustainable rice production in Myanmar impacts on food security and livelihood changes	7
Measuring sustainability performance of rice cultivation in Thailand using Sustainable Rice Platform indicators	7
Soil nutrient management: fueling agroecosystem sustainability	6

Bringing sustainable agricultural intensification practices and technologies to scale through campaign-based extension approaches: lessons from Africa Soil Health Consortium	6
Interactive tool for farmers to diversify high-latitude cereal-dominated crop rotations	6
Factors affecting sustainable agricultural intensification in Burkina Faso	6
Strategies for expansive learning in sustainable farming initiatives: a CHAT analysis of a Dutch case	6
Predictable patterns of unsustainable intensification	6
Opportunities and constraints for adoption of maize-legume mixed cropping systems in Laos	6
Bringing evidence to bear for negotiating tradeoffs in sustainable agricultural intensification using a structured stakeholder engagement process	6
Assessment of sustainable land use: linking land management practices to sustainable land use indicators	5
Continuing cereals research for sustainable health and well-being	5
Realizing Inclusive SAI: contextualizing indicators to better evaluate gender and intergenerational inequity in SAI processes and outcomes – cases from Southern and Western Africa	5
Cambodian rice farmers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) regarding insect pest management and pesticide use	5
Participatory multicriteria assessment of maize cropping systems in the context of family farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado	5
The Top 100 questions for the sustainable intensification of agriculture in India’s rainfed drylands	5
More than meat: the role of pigs in Timorese culture and the household economy	5
Implementation of the concept of sustainable intensification to a real farm – Was its development over 17 years a sustainable intensification?	5
Measuring household legume cultivation intensity in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Integrated crop-livestock farming offers a solution to soil fertility mining in semi-arid Kenya: evidence from Marsabit County	5
A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil	5
Enterprise mix diversification: an option for ecologically sustainable food and nutritional security of small holders in Indo-Gangetic plains	5
Designing sustainable pathways for the livestock sector: the example of Atsbi, Ethiopia and Bama, Burkina Faso	5
Farmers’ profiles and attitudes towards the implementation of rainwater harvesting systems in intensive agriculture	5
Agriculture extensification and associated socio-ecological trade-offs in smallholder farming systems of Zambia	5
How agro-environmental and climate measures are affecting farming system performances in Guadeloupe?: Lessons for the design of effective climate change policies	4
Drivers and barriers in farmers’ adoption of vermicomposting as keys for sustainable agricultural waste management	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
Water and economic productivity using different planting and irrigation methods under dry and wet seasons for wheat	4
Farmers’ knowledge and practices on pollination and insecticide use in cocoa farming in Ghana	4
Cosmetic pesticide use: quantifying use and its policy implications in California, USA	4
Application of innovation platforms to catalyse adoption of conservation agriculture practices in South Asia	4
Lessons on enabling African smallholder farmers, especially women and youth, to benefit from sustainable agricultural intensification	4
Risk sharing, benefit distribution and cooperation longevity: sustainable development of dairy farmer cooperatives in China	4
Smallholder commercialization and climate change: a simulation game for teff in South Wollo, Ethiopia	4
Capacity building towards agricultural sustainability in the Maldives: does the voice of the Maldivian farmer need to be amplified in planning agricultural interventions?	4
The implementation process of agriculture adaptation instruments to climate change. The invisibilization of European climate policy goals in French West indies’ banana Chain	3
Contribution, prospects and trends of livestock production in sub-Saharan Africa: a review	3
Improving farmers’ livelihoods through conservation agriculture: options for change promotion in Laikipia, Kenya	3
Transition towards sustainable yak farming in Bhutan: stakeholders’ viewpoints and recommendations for future steps	3
The design and implementation of a distributed agricultural service system for smallholder farmers in China	3
Indicator-based analysis of organic farming in Romania. Regional spatial patterns	3
Do attributes of happy seeder technology influence its adoption speed? An investigation using duration analysis in Northern India	3
Can mechanized pesticide application help reduce pesticide use and increase crop yield? Evidence from rice farmers in Jiangsu province, China	3
Manure matters: prospects for regional banana-livestock integration for sustainable intensification in South-West Uganda	3
Social categories and agency within a Conservation Agriculture framework in Laikipia, Kenya	3
Vegetable cultivation as a diversification option for fruit farmers in the Goulburn Valley, Australia	3
Production efficiency and the role of collective actions among irrigated rice farms in Northern Thailand.	3
Making decisions about agroecological innovations: perspectives from members of farmers’ organizations in Burkina Faso	3
Agro-food quality certification, agricultural organizations, and farm performance: evidence from vegetable farmers in China	3
Sweet chestnut and agricultural development: a farmers’ perspective for Northern Greece	3
Looking backward to find a path forward for the sustainable flow of suitable potato varieties to Eritrean potato farmers	3
Improving sustainable agriculture promotion: an explorative analysis of NRCS assistance programs and farmer perspectives	3
Strengthening decision-making on sustainable agricultural intensification through multi-stakeholder social learning in sub-Saharan Africa	3
Rising labour costs and the future of rubber intercropping in China	3
Farmers’ adaptation to climate change and crop yield: a case of Amuru and Apac districts of Northern Uganda	3
Multidimensional and multiscale assessment of agroecological transitions. A review	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