OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Food Security is 26. 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
Global maize production, consumption and trade: trends and R&D implications	363
The future of farming: Who will produce our food?	218
The contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to the global protein supply	174
Food security vulnerability due to trade dependencies on Russia and Ukraine	99
Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options?	98
Food waste in Italian households during the Covid-19 pandemic: a self-reporting approach	87
Why food insecurity persists in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of existing evidence	72
How food systems change (or not): governance implications for system transformation processes	66
Urbanisation as driver of food system transformation and opportunities for rural livelihoods	62
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural production, livelihoods, and food security in India: baseline results of a phone survey	59
Towards food systems transformation—five paradigm shifts for healthy, inclusive and sustainable food systems	55
Food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a survey of low-income Americans	47
Adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices and differentiated nutritional outcome among rural households: a case of Punjab province, Pakistan	44
Analysis and vulnerability of the international wheat trade network	42
Reverse thinking: taking a healthy diet perspective towards food systems transformations	41
Cross-national analysis of food security drivers: comparing results based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale and Global Food Security Index	37
Pathogens which threaten food security: Phytophthora infestans, the potato late blight pathogen	35
Food systems and rural wellbeing: challenges and opportunities	34
Quiet Revolution by SMEs in the midstream of value chains in developing regions: wholesale markets, wholesalers, logistics, and processing	32
Salinity and food security in southwest coastal Bangladesh: impacts on household food production and strategies for adaptation	32
Mapping the production-consumption gap of an urban food system: an empirical case study of food security and resilience	31
The decreasing area of hybrid rice production in China: causes and potential effects on Chinese rice self-sufficiency	31
Challenges and opportunities for enhancing food security and greenhouse gas mitigation in smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa. A review	30
Contribution of traditional fermented foods to food systems transformation: value addition and inclusive entrepreneurship	28
Food insecurity related to agricultural practices and household characteristics in rural communities of northeast Madagascar	27

COVID-19, food insecurity and dietary diversity of households: Survey evidence from Nigeria	26
“The street is ours”. A comparative analysis of street trading, Covid-19 and new street geographies in Harare, Zimbabwe and Kisumu, Kenya	26