OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability is 8. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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	33
Going digital in agriculture: how radio and SMS can scale-up smallholder participation in legume-based sustainable agricultural intensification practices and technologies in Tanzania	31
Embedding digital agriculture into sustainable Australian food systems: pathways and pitfalls to value creation	30
Adoption by adaptation: moving from Conservation Agriculture to conservation practices	30
Conservation Agriculture: factors and drivers of adoption and scalable innovative practices in Indo-Gangetic plains of India– a review	28
Do farmers care about pollinators? A cross-site comparison of farmers’ perceptions, knowledge, and management practices for pollinator-dependent crops	27
Do community seed banks contribute to the social-ecological resilience of communities? A case-study from western Guatemala	24
The effects of agroecological farming systems on smallholder livelihoods: a case study on push–pull system from Western Kenya	24
Zero-tillage wheat provides stable yield and economic benefits under diverse growing season climates in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains	23
Farmers’ Organizations as innovation intermediaries for agroecological innovations in Burkina Faso	22
Supporting smallholders’ decision making: managing trade-offs and synergies for sustainable agricultural intensification	22
Changing agricultural stubble burning practices in the Indo-Gangetic plains: is the Happy Seeder a profitable alternative?	21
Do voluntary certification standards improve yields and wellbeing? Evidence from oil palm and cocoa smallholders in Ghana	21
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
Understanding and informing decisions on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa	15
Forget opinion leaders: the role of social network brokers in the adoption of innovative farming practices in North-western Cambodia	14
Rice farmers adapting to drought in the Philippines	14
Scalability of Adaptation strategies to drought stress: the case of drought tolerant maize varieties in Kenya	14
No-till agriculture and the deception of sustainability in Brazil	14
The benefits and challenges of participating in Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) initiatives following institutional formalization in Chile	14
Does mixing livestock farming enterprises improve farm and product sustainability?	13
Amaranth production and consumption in South Africa: the challenges of sustainability for food and nutrition security	13
How agroecological rice intensification can assist in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals	13
Trade-offs, synergies and acceptability of climate smart agricultural practices by smallholder farmers in rural Ghana	12

Two enabling factors for farmer-driven pollinator protection in low- and middle-income countries	12
Theory, Practice and Challenges of Agroecology in India	12
Growing maize landraces in industrialized countries: from the search for seeds to the emergence of new practices and values	12
Adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies for vegetable production in rural Tanzania: trade-offs, complementarities and diffusion	12
Strengthening Conservation Agriculture innovation systems in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from a stakeholder analysis	12
Research perspectives on paddy field systems: ecological functions and environmental impacts	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
Tailoring legume seed markets for smallholder farmers in Africa	11
Farmer research networks in principle and practice	11
Trajectories of cropping system intensification under changing environment in south-west coastal Bangladesh	11
Farmers’ attitudes vs. government supervision: which one has a more significant impact on farmers’ pesticide use in China?	11
Factors affecting smallholder adoption of adaptation and coping measures to deal with rainfall variability	10
Conservation agriculture as a climate change mitigation strategy in Zimbabwe	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
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
Seeds of resilience: the contribution of commons-based plant breeding and seed production to the social-ecological resilience of the agricultural sector	10
Food systems in transition: conceptualizing sustainable food entrepreneurship	10
Barriers to sustainable intensification: overlooked disconnects between agricultural extension and farmer practice in maize-legume cropping systems in Tanzania	9
Looking into the future of organic tea production and sustainable farming: a systematic review	9
Can traders help farmers transition towards more sustainable maize based farming systems? Evidence from the Lao-Vietnamese border	9
COVID 19: Lets act now: the urgent need for upscaling agroecology in Uganda (2020)	9
Impacts of non-agricultural livelihood transformation of smallholder farmers on agricultural system in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	9
Assessing the sustainability of agricultural production - a cross-sectoral comparison of the blackberry, tomato and tree tomato sectors in Ecuador	9
Participatory seed projects and agroecological landscape knowledge in Central America	9
Social dimensions of multifunctional agriculture in Europe - towards an interdisciplinary framework	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	8
Assessment of sustainable land use: linking land management practices to sustainable land use indicators	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
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
Sustainable rice production in Myanmar impacts on food security and livelihood changes	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
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
Economics of alternative models of organic farming: empirical evidences from zero budget natural farming and scientific organic farming in West Bengal, India	8
Competing fields in sustainable agriculture: on farmer-expert understandings of good farming, good farmers and organic farming	8