OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Food Security 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Food insecurity among parents of young children in the United States and Australia: focusing on etiology and outcomes	802
A method for estimating physical and economic food access at high spatial resolution	392
The relationship between accessibility of retail seeds and diet diversity: a multi-level structural equation model applied to ethnic minority farmers in northern Vietnam	144
The effect of extreme weather events on child nutrition and health	125
Fish consumption pathways and food security in an Indonesian fishing community	92
Required informational barriers to accessing groceries from food banks	84
Biodiversity in agricultural and food systems of jhum landscape in the West Garo Hills, North-eastern India	49
Food systems thinking unpacked: a scoping review on industrial diets among adolescents in Ghana	48
Changes in school feeding operations during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 139 countries	45
Food deserts and food swamps in a Brazilian metropolis: comparison of methods to evaluate the community food environment in Belo Horizonte	44
Understanding the global hunger index and its correlates across districts of india: a spatial analysis	39
A whole system approach to childhood obesity: how a supportive environment was created in the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom	35
Do online agri-food sellers contribute to food security in Indonesia? A PCA-based composite index and a Tobit approach	32
Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: how export influences households’ macronutrient consumption in Vietnam	31
New Senior Editor for agronomy, agricultural systems modelling, and climate change appointed at food security	30
It is beautiful: the uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Erik Nordman (2021) The uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Essential lessons for collective action	29
The unbalanced development among legume species regarding sustainable and healthy agrifood systems in North-America and Europe: focus on food product innovations	29
Strengthening the millet economy: lessons from a South Indian case study	29
E-grocery as a new site of financialization? Financial drivers of the rise and fall of China’s E-grocery sector	26
An everyday political economy of food insecurity in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone	26
Adoption and disadoption of the improved clay granary for maize storage: evidence from the northern and central regions of Benin	25
Combining market and nonmarket food sources provides rural households with more options to achieve better diets in Southern Benin	24
Agricultural crime victimization and food security outcomes among smallholder farmers in rural Tanzania	24
Large-scale agricultural investments and local food security – Evidence from a mixed-method case study in Benin	24
Patterns of research on food security, 2020–2022	23

Retrofitting food and nutrition programmes to curb the global syndemic of undernutrition, obesity and climate change	23
A review of the effects of COVID-19 on food waste	23
Urban agriculture in São Paulo: an analysis from the sociology of public action	23
Community-based food sovereignty assessments (FSAs): A review	21
Complexities of food insecurity and quality of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban, moving towards integrated approaches and well-being enhancement	21
Revisiting Rwanda’s agricultural intensification policy: benefits of embracing farmer heterogeneity and crop-livestock integration strategies	21
The complex challenge of governing food systems: The case of South African food policy	21
Usefulness and misrepresentation of phone surveys on COVID-19 and food security in Africa	21
Changes and correlates of household food insecurity during COVID-19: a repeated cross-sectional survey of low-income households in peri-urban Peru	21
Effect of use of tsetse repellant collar technology on the farm performance and household welfare of small-scale livestock farmers in Kenya	21
Food security vulnerability due to trade dependencies on Russia and Ukraine	20
Revisiting food security in 2021: an overview of the past year	20
Which financial stressors are linked to food insecurity among older adults in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands? An exploratory study	19
A more plant-based diet can boost public health and reduce environmental impact in China	19
Regional food preferences influence environmental impacts of diets	18
Global interdependence for fruit genetic resources: status and challenges in India	18
Changes in Nigeria’s enabling environment for nutrition from 2008 to 2019 and challenges for reducing malnutrition	18
Effects of conservation farming practices on agro-ecosystem services for sustainable food security in Bangladesh	17
Food system resilience measurement: principles, framework and caveats	17
The challenges of a food sovereignty perspective: an analysis of the foodways of the Rama indigenous group, Nicaragua	17
Food insecurity among immigrant populations in the United States	16
The association between crop diversity and children’s dietary diversity: multi-scalar and cross-national comparisons	16
How does the improvement of farmers' financial literacy affect food production? Analysis of behavior and constraints based on element substitution and planting structure adjustment	16
Putting small fish on the table: the underutilized potential of small indigenous fish to improve food and nutrition security in East Africa	16
Does participation in on-farm demonstrations improve aspirations formation and food security? Evidence from Ghana	16
A Knowledge Agenda for food systems resilience in protracted crisis in the Horn of Africa	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
Navigating food environments for complementary feeding in the drylands of northern Kenya	15
Too poor to choose? Analyzing food agency in food insecure households in rural Burundi	15
A novel approach to assessing food insecurity for small geographic areas using household living budgets	14
Cultivating prosperity in Rwanda: the impact of high-yield biofortified bean seeds on farmers’ yield and income	14
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	14
Food security and livelihoods in protracted crisis: the experience of rural residents in Syria’s war zones	14
Agricultural commercialisation and food consumption: pathways and trade-offs across four African contexts	13
Application of item response theory modelling to measure an aggregate food security access score	13
Risk attitudes towards climate variation and food crop diversification, and their implications for food security among farm households in Central Region, Ghana	13
Obituary: Peter Scott 1942–2025 co-founder, Food Security	13
Food and nutrition security merits of intercropping maize, sorghum and millet with legumes on small farms in Southern Africa	12
Contrasting responses of spatiotemporal patterns of cropland to climate change in Northeast China	12
Role of interactive radio programming in advancing women’s and youth’s empowerment and dietary diversity: Mixed method evidence from Malawi	12
Social and ethnic-racial inequities in the occurrence of food deserts in a Brazilian state capital	12
The fight against food shortages and surpluses: perspectives of a practitioner by John McClintock	11
Local tastes and global flavors: food choice in the context of the nutrition transition in South India	11
Disentangling the Channels of Impact of the Ukraine War on Global Food Markets: An Integrated Scenario Approach	11
Applying the ‘Candidacy’ Model to understand access to key nutrition, food & health services in LMIC contexts: a qualitative study in Odisha, India	11
Gender dynamics in seed systems: an integrative review of seed promotion interventions in Africa	10
Correction to: Capacities of local maize seed enterprises in Mexico: implications for seed systems development	10
Changing rice cropping patterns and their impact on food security in southern China	10
Assessing global wheat supply security based on a cascading failure model in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict	10

Evaluating rational and healthy use options for small pelagic fish species in sub-Saharan Africa	10
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
COVID-19, food insecurity and dietary diversity of households: Survey evidence from Nigeria	10
U.S. Federal Reserve Policies can cause Political instability by raising bread prices*	10
Stories of change in nutrition: lessons from a new generation of studies from Africa, Asia and Europe	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
Do social safety net programs enhance household resilience through improved food security and child nutrition in Malawi?	9
Is there unrecognized potential in neglected livestock species in Sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review of four selected species	9
Reconciling grain production and environmental costs during rural livelihood transitions: a simulation-based approach in southern China	9
Where supply and demand meet: how consumer and vendor interactions create a market, a Nigerian example	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
Hierarchical assessment of the environmental trade-offs in global agricultural trade	9
Climate change-driven vulnerability of Mexico regions toward food insecurity	9
Biofortification versus diversification to fight micronutrient deficiencies: an interdisciplinary review	9
Illuminating the global maize trade network: structure, resilience and supply chain security	9
How are higher rice yields associated with dietary outcomes of smallholder farm households of Madagascar?	9
Diversify, produce or buy? An analysis of factors contributing to household dietary diversity among shrimp and non-shrimp farmers in coastal Bangladesh	8
COVID-19 risk perception and food security in the MENA region: evidence from a multi-wave household survey	8
Tracing the restructuring and industrialisation of upland agriculture in Southwest China, 2008 – 2019	8
Farmed animal production in tropical circular food systems	8
Exploring transformational adaptation strategy through agricultural policy reform in the Philippines	8
Exploring the association between agricultural production systems and household diets in Viet Nam	8
Public–private partnership generates economic benefits to smallholder bean growers in Uganda	8
Impact of home gardens promoted among urban residents in Dhaka, Bangladesh	8
Why food insecurity persists in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of existing evidence	8
Gender dynamics in seed systems: female makeover or male takeover of specialized sweetpotato seed production, in Lake Zone Tanzania?	8
Correction to: Food insecurity as a determinant of international migration: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	8
The effects of market-oriented farming on living standards, nutrition, and informal sharing arrangements of smallholder farmers: the case of African indigenous vegetables in Kenya	8
Food vouchers and dietary diversity: evidence from social protection reform in Indonesia	8
COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated food insecurity in South American countries	8
Linking food security, food sovereignty and foodways in urban Southeast Asia: cases from Indonesia and Thailand	8
Dietary diversity in the face of climate change: An Indian household perspective	8
Breaking the barriers: Ethiopia’s agricultural development innovations as a model for advancing Africa’s food security and SDG 2030 amid global polycrises	8
The 2023-24 El Niño event and its possible global consequences on food security with emphasis on India	8