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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Food insecurity among parents of young children in the United States and Australia: focusing on etiology and outcomes	723
A method for estimating physical and economic food access at high spatial resolution	371
Required informational barriers to accessing groceries from food banks	352
Fish consumption pathways and food security in an Indonesian fishing community	174
The effect of extreme weather events on child nutrition and health	140
Changes in school feeding operations during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 139 countries	115
Food deserts and food swamps in a Brazilian metropolis: comparison of methods to evaluate the community food environment in Belo Horizonte	89
Food systems thinking unpacked: a scoping review on industrial diets among adolescents in Ghana	82
Group-based approaches to nutrition-sensitive agriculture: insights from a post-project sustainability study in Côte d’Ivoire	76
Biodiversity in agricultural and food systems of jhum landscape in the West Garo Hills, North-eastern India	63
Reverse thinking: taking a healthy diet perspective towards food systems transformations	51
A whole system approach to childhood obesity: how a supportive environment was created in the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom	46
New Senior Editor for agronomy, agricultural systems modelling, and climate change appointed at food security	45
It is beautiful: the uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Erik Nordman (2021) The uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Essential lessons for collective action	43
An everyday political economy of food insecurity in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone	40
E-grocery as a new site of financialization? Financial drivers of the rise and fall of China’s E-grocery sector	40
Adoption and disadoption of the improved clay granary for maize storage: evidence from the northern and central regions of Benin	37
Agricultural crime victimization and food security outcomes among smallholder farmers in rural Tanzania	34
The unbalanced development among legume species regarding sustainable and healthy agrifood systems in North-America and Europe: focus on food product innovations	31
Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: how export influences households’ macronutrient consumption in Vietnam	29
Strengthening the millet economy: lessons from a South Indian case study	28
Large-scale agricultural investments and local food security – Evidence from a mixed-method case study in Benin	28
Do online agri-food sellers contribute to food security in Indonesia? A PCA-based composite index and a Tobit approach	27
Combining market and nonmarket food sources provides rural households with more options to achieve better diets in Southern Benin	27
Retrofitting food and nutrition programmes to curb the global syndemic of undernutrition, obesity and climate change	24

Patterns of research on food security, 2020–2022	24
Urban agriculture in São Paulo: an analysis from the sociology of public action	23
Usefulness and misrepresentation of phone surveys on COVID-19 and food security in Africa	23
Community-based food sovereignty assessments (FSAs): A review	23
Women’s empowerment and gender equality in agricultural value chains: evidence from four countries in Asia and Africa	22
A review of the effects of COVID-19 on food waste	22
The future of farming: Who will produce our food?	22
Effect of use of tsetse repellant collar technology on the farm performance and household welfare of small-scale livestock farmers in Kenya	21
Revisiting Rwanda’s agricultural intensification policy: benefits of embracing farmer heterogeneity and crop-livestock integration strategies	21
A more plant-based diet can boost public health and reduce environmental impact in China	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
Changes in Nigeria’s enabling environment for nutrition from 2008 to 2019 and challenges for reducing malnutrition	20
Global interdependence for fruit genetic resources: status and challenges in India	20
The role of complementary feeding in India’s high child malnutrition rates: findings from a comprehensive analysis of NFHS IV (2015–2016) data	20
Effects of conservation farming practices on agro-ecosystem services for sustainable food security in Bangladesh	20
Regional food preferences influence environmental impacts of diets	19
Which financial stressors are linked to food insecurity among older adults in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands? An exploratory study	19
Food security vulnerability due to trade dependencies on Russia and Ukraine	18
The challenges of a food sovereignty perspective: an analysis of the foodways of the Rama indigenous group, Nicaragua	18
Food system resilience measurement: principles, framework and caveats	18
Revisiting food security in 2021: an overview of the past year	18
The complex challenge of governing food systems: The case of South African food policy	18
The association between crop diversity and children’s dietary diversity: multi-scalar and cross-national comparisons	18
How does the improvement of farmers' financial literacy affect food production? Analysis of behavior and constraints based on element substitution and planting structure adjustment	17
Too poor to choose? Analyzing food agency in food insecure households in rural Burundi	17
Does participation in on-farm demonstrations improve aspirations formation and food security? Evidence from Ghana	17
A novel approach to assessing food insecurity for small geographic areas using household living budgets	17
Food security and livelihoods in protracted crisis: the experience of rural residents in Syria’s war zones	16
Food insecurity among immigrant populations in the United States	16
Navigating food environments for complementary feeding in the drylands of northern Kenya	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	16
Triple duty actions to address the global syndemic of undernutrition, obesity and environmental sustainability: a scoping review	15
A Knowledge Agenda for food systems resilience in protracted crisis in the Horn of Africa	15
Putting small fish on the table: the underutilized potential of small indigenous fish to improve food and nutrition security in East Africa	15
Food and nutrition security merits of intercropping maize, sorghum and millet with legumes on small farms in Southern Africa	14
Agricultural commercialisation and food consumption: pathways and trade-offs across four African contexts	14
Contrasting responses of spatiotemporal patterns of cropland to climate change in Northeast China	14
Disentangling the Channels of Impact of the Ukraine War on Global Food Markets: An Integrated Scenario Approach	14
Correction to: Broken promises: a rights-based analysis of marginalised livelihoods and experiences of food insecurity in large-scale land investments in Tanzania	14
Cultivating prosperity in Rwanda: the impact of high-yield biofortified bean seeds on farmers’ yield and income	14
Obituary: Peter Scott 1942–2025 co-founder, Food Security	14
Social and ethnic-racial inequities in the occurrence of food deserts in a Brazilian state capital	14
Application of item response theory modelling to measure an aggregate food security access score	14
Role of interactive radio programming in advancing women’s and youth’s empowerment and dietary diversity: Mixed method evidence from Malawi	14
Maize storage losses, climate, and climate change in Zambia	13
Local tastes and global flavors: food choice in the context of the nutrition transition in South India	13
Stories of change in nutrition: lessons from a new generation of studies from Africa, Asia and Europe	13
Applying the ‘Candidacy’ Model to understand access to key nutrition, food & health services in LMIC contexts: a qualitative study in Odisha, India	13
Correction to: Food choice responses to changes in the price of a staple crop: a discrete choice experiment of maize in rural Malawi	13
The fight against food shortages and surpluses: perspectives of a practitioner by John McClintock	13

Changing rice cropping patterns and their impact on food security in southern China	12
Correction to: Capacities of local maize seed enterprises in Mexico: implications for seed systems development	12
Stories of Challenge in South Africa: changes in the enabling environment for nutrition among young children (1994–2021)	12
U.S. Federal Reserve Policies can cause Political instability by raising bread prices*	11
Evaluating rational and healthy use options for small pelagic fish species in sub-Saharan Africa	11
In this issue of food security—October 2021	10
Climate change-driven vulnerability of Mexico regions toward food insecurity	10
Gender dynamics in seed systems: an integrative review of seed promotion interventions in Africa	10
Biofortification versus diversification to fight micronutrient deficiencies: an interdisciplinary review	10
From subsistence to market-oriented farming: The role of groundwater irrigation in smallholder agriculture in eastern India	10
Is there unrecognized potential in neglected livestock species in Sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review of four selected species	10
COVID-19, food insecurity and dietary diversity of households: Survey evidence from Nigeria	10
Where supply and demand meet: how consumer and vendor interactions create a market, a Nigerian example	10
Food systems modelling to evaluate interventions for food and nutrition security in an African urban context	9
Unravelling the interplay between water and food systems in arid and semi-arid environments: the case of Egypt	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
Hierarchical assessment of the environmental trade-offs in global agricultural trade	9
Linking food security, food sovereignty and foodways in urban Southeast Asia: cases from Indonesia and Thailand	9
How are higher rice yields associated with dietary outcomes of smallholder farm households of Madagascar?	9
Farmed animal production in tropical circular food systems	9