OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategies to overcome stagnation in agricultural adoption despite awareness and interest: a case study of conservation agriculture in South Asia	34
Russia's Role in the Contemporary International Agri-Food Trade System - Edited by Stephen K. Wegren and Frode Nilssen (2022). Palgrave Macmillan. 347pp. ISBN 978-3-030-77450-9. https://doi.org/10.100	23
Effects of cover crop, N and residue management on the financial sustainability of processing tomatoes in Southwestern Ontario	20
Adoption and nonadoption of minimum tillage potato cultivation resulting from mechanized rice farming in Vietnam	20
Modern arable and diverse ley farming systems can increase soil organic matter faster than global targets	20
Organic information: influential authors and organizations in the Midwestern and Northeastern United States organic and sustainable agriculture community	20
Organic agriculture and climate change—update after 15 years	19
Economic trade-offs: analysis of hairy vetch (Vicia villosa) cover crop use in organic tomato (Solanum lycopersicumL.) high tunnel systems across multiple regions	17
U.S. organic agriculture: 30 years after the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990. Introduction to themed issue	16
‘They convert, I also convert’: the neighborhood effects and tea farmers' intention to convert to organic farming	15
Does willingness to pay for local food vary with personal definitions of local?	15
Cool-season cover crop effects on forage productivity and short-term soil health in a semi-arid environment	15
Motivating organic farmers to adopt practices that support the pest-suppressive microbiome relies on understanding their beliefs	14
Contextual realities and poverty traps: why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture	14
Farmer preferences for adopting drought-tolerant maize varieties: evidence from a choice experiment in Nigeria	14
Missouri natural resource professionals share key insights for supporting agroforestry practices through cost-share funding available from USDA conservation programs	12
Book Review of Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets: Human, Animal, and Planetary Health Edited by Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna (2025). London and New York, Routledge. 277 pp. (hard book), GB	12
Supporting organic farmers through information and technical assistance	12
Habitat associations and conservation opportunities for priority birds on small, diversified farms in the northeastern USA	11
Effect of zinc and protein content in different barley cultivars: use of controlled release matrices	11
Water scarcity and consumer behavior: an analysis of diet-related water footprint	11
Pathways from information to the adoption of conservation agriculture practices in Malawi and Tanzania	11
The economic performance of soil health practices in potato production systems – ADDENDUM	11
In search of a sustainable alternative for meat production: understanding the purchase intention of meat from transhumance origin	11
Optimizing organic muskmelon production by integrating mesotunnel row covers, inter-bed weed management, and pollination strategies	10

Water use efficiency, lodging, and yield of tef (Eragrostis tef [Zucc.] Trotter) as influenced by carbonized rice husk application timing and soil amendments	10
‘Never cry for food’: food security, poverty, and recurring themes in news media regarding rabbit farming in East Africa	9
Long-term organic and conventional management affects corn nutrient composition	9
Tarping and mulching effects on crop yields, profitability, and soil nutrients in a continuous no-till organic vegetable production system	9
Perspectives on new technologies built on anaerobic digestion: insights from Idaho	8
No yield advantage of biodynamic compost preparations in a long-term field trial	8
The economic performance of soil health practices in potato production systems	8
Preliminary findings of northeast organic and conventional dairy farmers' perception of benefits and challenges in feeding algae	8
Improving agri-environmental policy design: farmer and administrator insights on voluntary conservation programs	8
A scientometric review of the peer-reviewed research on high tunnels in the United States	7
Integrating pastured meat chickens into organic vegetable production increased nitrogen and microbial biomass with variability in presence of E. coli and Salmonella spp	7
What would it look like? Visualizing a future US Corn Belt landscape with more table food production	7
First steps toward developing Lewis flax (Linum lewisii Pursh) as an agronomic crop	7
Prospects of porous concrete as a plant-growing medium and structural component for green roofs: a review	7
Bee discovery suggests the importance of urban gardens in a changing world	7
Who's near the local food? A regional proximity analysis of short food supply chain types in southern New England	6
Cover crop management strategies affect weeds and profitability of organic no-till soybean	6
Producers marketing a novel crop: a field-level view of hemp market channels	6
Pro-environmental diversification of pasture-based dairy and beef production in Ireland, the United Kingdom and New Zealand: a scoping review of impacts and challenges	6
Balancing row cover pest and pollination management in organic cucurbit production	6
Housefly larvae as a protein source in rainbow trout diet: impact on growth, carcass composition and the gut microbiome	5
Consumer preferences for produce grown with reduced pesticides: a choice experiment in Missouri	5
Collaborating to reduce food waste: building collaborative advantage in local food systems	5
Geospatial characteristics of allotment garden provision in Tokyo	5
Development status and trends in side-deep fertilization of rice	5
Farmers’ resilience to climate change through the circular economy and sustainable agriculture: a review from developed and developing countries	5
Factors influencing the economic sustainability and viability of soil-based urban and peri-urban agricultural enterprises in OECD countries: a scoping review	5
How do different types of social norms relate to farmers’ adoption of conservation practices?	5
The effects of farming system and soil management on floristic diversity in sloping olive groves	4
Influence of biochar derived from lignin-rich feedstocks on soil properties and crop yield: the Case of Solanum lycopersicum L. (tomatoes)	4
Evaluating ecosystem services of summer cover crop mixtures for organic cabbage production	4
Fall-sown small grain cover crops for weed suppression and soil moisture management in an irrigated organic agroecosystem	4
‘Farming with alternative pollinators’ approach supports diverse and abundant pollinator community in melon fields in a semi-arid landscape	4
Moving conservation agriculture from principles to a performance-based production system	4
Developing scientific equity for biodiversity research: a thematic analysis of ecological change impacts on ranchers in Baja California Sur, Mexico	4
A comparative analysis of the water and carbon footprints of hybrid, plant-based, and animal-based burgers	4
Feasibility of mechanical rice transplanting in organic Italian rice system	4
Multi-criteria sustainability performance assessment of horticultural crops using DEA and ELECTRE IV methods	4
Plant facilitation in rooftop agriculture: disentangling plant interactions for sustainable crop production on extensive green roofs	4
Use of narratives to communicate organics with commodity grain farmers	4
The value of additional calf–mother contact in milk choice: an analysis of US consumers	4
Considering the management of diversity on livestock farms from the perspective of work	4
Anaerobic co-digestion of jackfruit waste with cow dung and poultry droppings: evaluating the biogas production and agricultural re-use potential of the digestates	4
What women landowners want to know about conservation	3
Thirty years of organic dairy in the United States: the influences of farms, the market and the organic regulation	3
Influence of organic and cage housing system on egg quality in laying hens	3
Influence of Trichoderma species on the reduction of heavy metal levels in bean plants irrigated with wastewater: a case study from the Mezquital Valley, Hidalgo, Mexico	3
Effect of varieties and planting dates of bread wheat-lupine intercropping system under additive design in Northwest Ethiopia	3
Long-term cover crop impacts on soil health indicators and processing tomato yield and quality in a temperate humid climate	3
Stakeholder opinions of seaweed supplements for dairy cows	3

A critical review of on-farm food loss and waste: future research and policy recommendations	3
Strip cropping in organically managed vegetable systems: agronomic and environmental effects	3
Understanding the potential of sustainability turn in farming: review of sociotechnical adoption factors of agri-environmental cropping practices	3
A nonparametric analysis of climate change nexus on agricultural productivity in Africa: implications on food security	3
Agricultural sustainability requires multidimensional solutions that address environmental and financial benefits in the Oregon hazelnut industry	2
Pre-harvest food safety and conservation challenges facing US produce growers: results from a national survey	2
Assessing forage research and education needs of organic dairy farms in the United States	2
Moving conservation agriculture from principles to a performance-based production system – CORRIGENDUM	2
Intensifying a crop–fallow system: impacts on soil properties, crop yields, and economics	2
Food System Transformations: Social Movements, Local Economies, Collaborative Networks edited by Cordula Kropp, Irene Antoni-Komar and Colin Sage. Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-367-67422-9	2
Cover crop effects on the growth of perennial weeds in two long-term organic crop rotations	2
How to increase consumer demand for GHG-mitigating ingredients? A case study of green restaurants in Taiwan	2
Transforming food industry and supply chain through digital innovation to reduce food waste: a systematic review	2
Estimation of short- and long-term floor and ceiling prices for manure in a crop and livestock farms exchange	2
Heir presence? The impact of offspring gender composition on long-term agricultural investment behavior	2
Occurrence and diversity of poisonous plants in urban community gardens	2
System-wide nexus analyses: water distribution rules, agricultural productivity and livelihoods in flood-based livelihood systems	2
Bridging behavioral theories and government initiatives: understanding the drivers of biopesticide adoption among farmers in India	2
Perceptions of genetically modified and bioengineered organisms and corresponding food labels among undergraduate students at Binghamton University	2
Stakeholders' perception on the role of extensive livestock farming in the fight against climate change	2
What are farmers' perceptions about farmland landbirds? A Galapagos Islands perspective	2