OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Food Security is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of mobile banking in coping with food insecurity in Burkina Faso	132
The relationship between accessibility of retail seeds and diet diversity: a multi-level structural equation model applied to ethnic minority farmers in northern Vietnam	70
A method for estimating physical and economic food access at high spatial resolution	57
Understanding the global hunger index and its correlates across districts of india: a spatial analysis	53
Correction to: Regional heatwave variations in China pose a threat to summer grain yields	53
Food systems thinking unpacked: a scoping review on industrial diets among adolescents in Ghana	49
Fish consumption pathways and food security in an Indonesian fishing community	42
Changes in school feeding operations during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 139 countries	35
Prediction of household food insecurity levels in Ethiopia: application of deep learning models	35
The effect of extreme weather events on child nutrition and health	34
Required informational barriers to accessing groceries from food banks	34
It is beautiful: the uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Erik Nordman (2021) The uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Essential lessons for collective action	31
Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: how export influences households’ macronutrient consumption in Vietnam	31
A whole system approach to childhood obesity: how a supportive environment was created in the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom	29
Agricultural crime victimization and food security outcomes among smallholder farmers in rural Tanzania	29
Strengthening the millet economy: lessons from a South Indian case study	29
The unbalanced development among legume species regarding sustainable and healthy agrifood systems in North-America and Europe: focus on food product innovations	28
Combining market and nonmarket food sources provides rural households with more options to achieve better diets in Southern Benin	28
E-grocery as a new site of financialization? Financial drivers of the rise and fall of China’s E-grocery sector	28
Inside the crowd: Assessing the suitability of SMS-based surveys to monitor the food security situation in Uganda	27
Science for Africa’s future food security: rethinking breeding to adapt to diversified cropping systems	26
Large-scale agricultural investments and local food security – Evidence from a mixed-method case study in Benin	24
From local innovation to sustainable urban food systems: lessons on scaling from eleven European cities	24
An everyday political economy of food insecurity in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone	23
Patterns of research on food security, 2020–2022	22

Do online agri-food sellers contribute to food security in Indonesia? A PCA-based composite index and a Tobit approach	22
Psychometric evaluation of a modified food security survey scale in the economically deprived population of Hong Kong	21
Retrofitting food and nutrition programmes to curb the global syndemic of undernutrition, obesity and climate change	21
Science for Africa’s future food security: the future of PhD graduates in food security-related research in Africa	19
A review of the effects of COVID-19 on food waste	19
Community-based food sovereignty assessments (FSAs): A review	19
Placing resilient local food systems on the municipal agenda: insights from Sweden	19
Pulse consumption patterns, protein intake, and child nutrition outcomes in Central Madagascar	19
Usefulness and misrepresentation of phone surveys on COVID-19 and food security in Africa	19
Changes and correlates of household food insecurity during COVID-19: a repeated cross-sectional survey of low-income households in peri-urban Peru	19
Women’s empowerment, crop productivity, and food security: Nationally representative panel data analysis in Malawi	18
A more plant-based diet can boost public health and reduce environmental impact in China	17
Effect of use of tsetse repellant collar technology on the farm performance and household welfare of small-scale livestock farmers in Kenya	17
Changes in Nigeria’s enabling environment for nutrition from 2008 to 2019 and challenges for reducing malnutrition	17
Effects of conservation farming practices on agro-ecosystem services for sustainable food security in Bangladesh	17
Complexities of food insecurity and quality of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban, moving towards integrated approaches and well-being enhancement	17
Effects of an intervention for a liquefied petroleum gas cook-stove with free fuel on food insecurity and dietary diversity among women and infants: a multi-country randomized controlled trial	17
The role of farm production diversity in enhancing dietary diversity and food security in Southern Bangladesh	17
A novel approach to assessing food insecurity for small geographic areas using household living budgets	16
Navigating food environments for complementary feeding in the drylands of northern Kenya	16
Food system resilience measurement: principles, framework and caveats	16
Land degradation, fertilizer use, and grazing pressure as determinants of food security in Nigeria	16
Does participation in on-farm demonstrations improve aspirations formation and food security? Evidence from Ghana	16
Food insecurity among immigrant populations in the United States	16
Vulnerability and resilience among farmers and market actors in local agri-food value chains in the face of COVID-19 disruptions: findings from Uganda and Kenya	15
Sustainability challenges in small-scale freshwater catfish (Clarias gariepinus) farming in northern Thailand: profitability, economy of scale, and hedging	15
Mapping food accessibility and examining drivers of staple food sources and household food security: insights from Bia West district, Ghana	15
Triple duty actions to address the global syndemic of undernutrition, obesity and environmental sustainability: a scoping review	15
Food security and livelihoods in protracted crisis: the experience of rural residents in Syria’s war zones	14
Too poor to choose? Analyzing food agency in food insecure households in rural Burundi	14
The association between crop diversity and children’s dietary diversity: multi-scalar and cross-national comparisons	14
How does the improvement of farmers' financial literacy affect food production? Analysis of behavior and constraints based on element substitution and planting structure adjustment	14
Impact of a homegardening intervention on crop diversity: results from a cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh	14
Putting small fish on the table: the underutilized potential of small indigenous fish to improve food and nutrition security in East Africa	13
Food security, and vulnerability of Slovak households during the global crisis, 2022–2023	13
A Knowledge Agenda for food systems resilience in protracted crisis in the Horn of Africa	13
Cultivating prosperity in Rwanda: the impact of high-yield biofortified bean seeds on farmers’ yield and income	13
Consequences of increased farm resilience on food security in Tajikistan	13
Obituary: Peter Scott 1942–2025 co-founder, Food Security	13
Fiscal policies alone may be insufficient to reach healthy, sustainable and culturally acceptable diets in Mexico	13
Contrasting responses of spatiotemporal patterns of cropland to climate change in Northeast China	12
Predictors of worsening food security among women living with and without HIV and seronegative women during COVID-19: a mixed methods study	12
Disentangling the Channels of Impact of the Ukraine War on Global Food Markets: An Integrated Scenario Approach	12
Wholesalers and the transformation of the “hidden middle” of the aquaculture value chain in Bangladesh	11
Food and nutrition security merits of intercropping maize, sorghum and millet with legumes on small farms in Southern Africa	11
Risk attitudes towards climate variation and food crop diversification, and their implications for food security among farm households in Central Region, Ghana	11
Application of item response theory modelling to measure an aggregate food security access score	11
Assessing global wheat supply security based on a cascading failure model in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict	11
Agricultural commercialisation and food consumption: pathways and trade-offs across four African contexts	11
Local tastes and global flavors: food choice in the context of the nutrition transition in South India	11

Social and ethnic-racial inequities in the occurrence of food deserts in a Brazilian state capital	11
Stories of Challenge in South Africa: changes in the enabling environment for nutrition among young children (1994–2021)	10
Maize storage losses, climate, and climate change in Zambia	10
Correction to: Food choice responses to changes in the price of a staple crop: a discrete choice experiment of maize in rural Malawi	10
Food deserts and swamps in a Southern Brazilian conurbation: socio-spatial determinants of the urban food environment	10
Evaluating rational and healthy use options for small pelagic fish species in sub-Saharan Africa	10
Stories of change in nutrition: lessons from a new generation of studies from Africa, Asia and Europe	10
Applying the ‘Candidacy’ Model to understand access to key nutrition, food & health services in LMIC contexts: a qualitative study in Odisha, India	10
Food poisoning in a Colombian population: A geospatial analysis	10
Advancing food availability from forests in China: an empirical study of urban residents’ health consciousness and forest food consumption behavior	10
Correction to: Consequences of increased farm resilience on food security in Tajikistan	10
Reconciling grain production and environmental costs during rural livelihood transitions: a simulation-based approach in southern China	9
How are higher rice yields associated with dietary outcomes of smallholder farm households of Madagascar?	9
Do social safety net programs enhance household resilience through improved food security and child nutrition in Malawi?	9
COVID-19, labor markets and household food security in Egypt: evidence from a generalized structural equation model	9
Biofortification versus diversification to fight micronutrient deficiencies: an interdisciplinary review	9
Hierarchical assessment of the environmental trade-offs in global agricultural trade	9
Nutrition sensitive poverty and its correlates in Papua New Guinea: incorporating healthy diet targets into poverty measurement	9
Where supply and demand meet: how consumer and vendor interactions create a market, a Nigerian example	9
Correction to: Navigating the humanitarian-development nexus in resilience programming: lessons from escalating crisis in Sahelian West Africa (2017–2020)	9
Climate-conflict dynamics and food insecurity in Niger: the role of income diversification and external support	9
From subsistence to market-oriented farming: The role of groundwater irrigation in smallholder agriculture in eastern India	9
Food systems modelling to evaluate interventions for food and nutrition security in an African urban context	9
Climate change-driven vulnerability of Mexico regions toward food insecurity	9
COVID-19, food insecurity and dietary diversity of households: Survey evidence from Nigeria	9
Gender dynamics in seed systems: an integrative review of seed promotion interventions in Africa	9