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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Food insecurity among parents of young children in the United States and Australia: focusing on etiology and outcomes	834
The relationship between accessibility of retail seeds and diet diversity: a multi-level structural equation model applied to ethnic minority farmers in northern Vietnam	413
A method for estimating physical and economic food access at high spatial resolution	150
Required informational barriers to accessing groceries from food banks	130
The effect of extreme weather events on child nutrition and health	97
Food systems thinking unpacked: a scoping review on industrial diets among adolescents in Ghana	89
Changes in school feeding operations during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 139 countries	49
Understanding the global hunger index and its correlates across districts of india: a spatial analysis	44
Biodiversity in agricultural and food systems of jhum landscape in the West Garo Hills, North-eastern India	40
Fish consumption pathways and food security in an Indonesian fishing community	37
Do online agri-food sellers contribute to food security in Indonesia? A PCA-based composite index and a Tobit approach	36
Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: how export influences households’ macronutrient consumption in Vietnam	35
New Senior Editor for agronomy, agricultural systems modelling, and climate change appointed at food security	33
It is beautiful: the uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Erik Nordman (2021) The uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Essential lessons for collective action	32
Strengthening the millet economy: lessons from a South Indian case study	31
E-grocery as a new site of financialization? Financial drivers of the rise and fall of China’s E-grocery sector	29
Adoption and disadoption of the improved clay granary for maize storage: evidence from the northern and central regions of Benin	27
An everyday political economy of food insecurity in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone	27
Agricultural crime victimization and food security outcomes among smallholder farmers in rural Tanzania	26
Large-scale agricultural investments and local food security – Evidence from a mixed-method case study in Benin	25
A whole system approach to childhood obesity: how a supportive environment was created in the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom	25
The unbalanced development among legume species regarding sustainable and healthy agrifood systems in North-America and Europe: focus on food product innovations	24
Patterns of research on food security, 2020–2022	24
Combining market and nonmarket food sources provides rural households with more options to achieve better diets in Southern Benin	24
Science for Africa’s future food security: rethinking breeding to adapt to diversified cropping systems	24

Retrofitting food and nutrition programmes to curb the global syndemic of undernutrition, obesity and climate change	23
Revisiting Rwanda’s agricultural intensification policy: benefits of embracing farmer heterogeneity and crop-livestock integration strategies	22
Psychometric evaluation of a modified food security survey scale in the economically deprived population of Hong Kong	22
Urban agriculture in São Paulo: an analysis from the sociology of public action	22
Usefulness and misrepresentation of phone surveys on COVID-19 and food security in Africa	22
A review of the effects of COVID-19 on food waste	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
Community-based food sovereignty assessments (FSAs): A review	21
Effect of use of tsetse repellant collar technology on the farm performance and household welfare of small-scale livestock farmers in Kenya	21
A more plant-based diet can boost public health and reduce environmental impact in China	19
Complexities of food insecurity and quality of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban, moving towards integrated approaches and well-being enhancement	19
Regional food preferences influence environmental impacts of diets	18
Food system resilience measurement: principles, framework and caveats	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	18
Revisiting food security in 2021: an overview of the past year	18
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 complex challenge of governing food systems: The case of South African food policy	17
The challenges of a food sovereignty perspective: an analysis of the foodways of the Rama indigenous group, Nicaragua	16
Does participation in on-farm demonstrations improve aspirations formation and food security? Evidence from Ghana	16
Global interdependence for fruit genetic resources: status and challenges in India	16
The association between crop diversity and children’s dietary diversity: multi-scalar and cross-national comparisons	16
Food security vulnerability due to trade dependencies on Russia and Ukraine	16
Too poor to choose? Analyzing food agency in food insecure households in rural Burundi	15
Food security and livelihoods in protracted crisis: the experience of rural residents in Syria’s war zones	15
Food insecurity among immigrant populations in the United States	15
Putting small fish on the table: the underutilized potential of small indigenous fish to improve food and nutrition security in East Africa	15
A novel approach to assessing food insecurity for small geographic areas using household living budgets	15
Navigating food environments for complementary feeding in the drylands of northern Kenya	14
Triple duty actions to address the global syndemic of undernutrition, obesity and environmental sustainability: a scoping review	14
A Knowledge Agenda for food systems resilience in protracted crisis in the Horn of Africa	14
Mapping food accessibility and examining drivers of staple food sources and household food security: insights from Bia West district, Ghana	13
Cultivating prosperity in Rwanda: the impact of high-yield biofortified bean seeds on farmers’ yield and income	13
How does the improvement of farmers' financial literacy affect food production? Analysis of behavior and constraints based on element substitution and planting structure adjustment	13
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	13
Risk attitudes towards climate variation and food crop diversification, and their implications for food security among farm households in Central Region, Ghana	12
Wholesalers and the transformation of the “hidden middle” of the aquaculture value chain in Bangladesh	12
Obituary: Peter Scott 1942–2025 co-founder, Food Security	12
Disentangling the Channels of Impact of the Ukraine War on Global Food Markets: An Integrated Scenario Approach	12
Application of item response theory modelling to measure an aggregate food security access score	12
Contrasting responses of spatiotemporal patterns of cropland to climate change in Northeast China	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
Food and nutrition security merits of intercropping maize, sorghum and millet with legumes on small farms in Southern Africa	11
Correction to: Food choice responses to changes in the price of a staple crop: a discrete choice experiment of maize in rural Malawi	11
Role of interactive radio programming in advancing women’s and youth’s empowerment and dietary diversity: Mixed method evidence from Malawi	11
Applying the ‘Candidacy’ Model to understand access to key nutrition, food & health services in LMIC contexts: a qualitative study in Odisha, India	11
The fight against food shortages and surpluses: perspectives of a practitioner by John McClintock	11
Assessing global wheat supply security based on a cascading failure model in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict	10

Correction to: Capacities of local maize seed enterprises in Mexico: implications for seed systems development	10
Biofortification versus diversification to fight micronutrient deficiencies: an interdisciplinary review	10
Changing rice cropping patterns and their impact on food security in southern China	10
U.S. Federal Reserve Policies can cause Political instability by raising bread prices*	10
Climate change-driven vulnerability of Mexico regions toward food insecurity	10
Stories of change in nutrition: lessons from a new generation of studies from Africa, Asia and Europe	10
Maize storage losses, climate, and climate change in Zambia	10
Stories of Challenge in South Africa: changes in the enabling environment for nutrition among young children (1994–2021)	10
Where supply and demand meet: how consumer and vendor interactions create a market, a Nigerian example	10
Why food insecurity persists in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of existing evidence	9
COVID-19, food insecurity and dietary diversity of households: Survey evidence from Nigeria	9
Do social safety net programs enhance household resilience through improved food security and child nutrition in Malawi?	9
Illuminating the global maize trade network: structure, resilience and supply chain security	9
Reconciling grain production and environmental costs during rural livelihood transitions: a simulation-based approach in southern China	9
Food systems modelling to evaluate interventions for food and nutrition security in an African urban context	9
Evaluating rational and healthy use options for small pelagic fish species in sub-Saharan Africa	9
How are higher rice yields associated with dietary outcomes of smallholder farm households of Madagascar?	9
Linking food security, food sovereignty and foodways in urban Southeast Asia: cases from Indonesia and Thailand	9
From subsistence to market-oriented farming: The role of groundwater irrigation in smallholder agriculture in eastern India	9
Gender dynamics in seed systems: an integrative review of seed promotion interventions in Africa	9
Hierarchical assessment of the environmental trade-offs in global agricultural trade	9