OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability is 7. 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
Two enabling factors for farmer-driven pollinator protection in low- and middle-income countries	14
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
Farmers’ attitudes vs. government supervision: which one has a more significant impact on farmers’ pesticide use in China?	13
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
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
Sustainable rice production in Myanmar impacts on food security and livelihood changes	8
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
The coffee value chain and its transition to sustainability in Brazil and Colombia from innovation system approach	7
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