OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Principles for designing Agroecology-based Local (territorial) Agri-food Systems: a critical revision	34
Urban food sovereignty: urgent need for agroecology and systems thinking in a post-COVID-19 future	33
Feminist agroecology: analyzing power relationships in food systems	27
The evolving landscape of agroecological research	23
Integrated policy analysis to identify transformation paths to more sustainable legume-based food and feed value-chains in Europe	19
Daring to build fair and sustainable urban food systems: A case study of alternative food networks in Australia	16
Agroecological practices of legume residue management and crop diversification for improved smallholder food security, dietary diversity and sustainable land use in Malawi	16
Transition to agroecology for improved food security and better living conditions: case study from a family farm in Pinar del Río, Cuba	15
Can Australia transition to an agroecological future?	15
Comprehensive impacts of diversified cropping on soil health and sustainability	14
Agroecological public policies to mitigate climate change: public food procurement for school canteens in the municipality of Ames (Galicia, Spain)	14
Indigenous farming practices increase millet yields in Senegal, West Africa	14
Pensamiento Latinoamericano Agroecológico: the emergence of a critical Latin American agroecology?	13
Indigenous knowledge and the enhancement of community resilience to climate change in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam	12
Opportunities and barriers in diversified farming and the use of agroecological principles in the Global North – The experiences of Danish biodynamic farmers	12
Integrated assessment of system of rice intensification vs. conventional method of transplanting for economic benefit, energy efficiency and lower global warming potential in India	12
Agroecology and spirituality: reflections about an unrecognized link	12
Agroecological feminism	11
Confronting Covid-19 with agroecology	11
Does crop diversification lead to climate-related resilience? Improving the theory through insights on practice	11
‘Whatever happened to the Mexican Green Revolution?’	10
Ecosystem services related with Opuntia ficus-indica (prickly pear cactus): a review of challenges and opportunities	10
Transdisciplinarity in agroecology: practices and perspectives in Europe	10
Women, agroecology and the state: New perspectives on scaling-up agroecology based on a field research in Chile	10
Sow what you sell: strategies for integrating organic breeding and seed production into value chain partnerships	10

Urban and peri-urban agriculture as a strategy for creating more sustainable and resilient urban food systems and facing socio-environmental emergencies	10
Participatory certifications for the sustainability transition of food systems in Costa Rica: barriers and opportunities for scaling out	9
A review of theoretical frameworks of food system governance, and the search for food system sustainability	9
Review: ecosystem services in permaculture systems	8
Agroecology at the UN food systems summit	8
Traditional rice-based agroecosystem in Kiangan, Ifugao, Philippines: drivers of change, resilience, and potential trajectories	8
Taking food out the private sphere? Addressing gender relations in urban food policy	8
Organic farmers face persistent barriers to adopting diversification practices in California’s Central Coast	8
Re-conceptualizing and decolonizing resilience from a peasant perspective	8
Regaining the Agricultural Potential of Sodic Soils and Improved Smallholder Food Security through Integration of Gypsum, Pressmud and Salt Tolerant Varieties	8
How agroecological farming practices reshape cattle farmers’ working conditions	8
Agroecology and the transition to sustainability in West African food systems	7
Resisting socio-ecological vulnerability: agroecology and indigenous cooperativism in La Montaña, Guerrero, Mexico	7
Evaluating the impact of agroecology	7
Agri-food system dynamics of small-holder hill farming communities of Uttarakhand in north-western India: socio-economic and policy considerations for sustainable development	7
Co-inquiry in agroecology research with farmers: transdisciplinary co-creation of contextualized and actionable knowledge	7
“I came all this way to receive training, am I really going to be taught by a woman?” Factors that support and hinder women’s participation in agroecology in Costa Rica	7
Framing local: an analysis of framing strategies for genetically modified organism (GMO) labeling initiatives in the northeastern U.S	7
Sustainable development at the policy-practice nexus: insights from south West Bay, Malakula Island, Vanuatu	7
Spaces of sustainable transformation at territorial level: an analysis of biodistricts and their role for agroecological transitions	7
Augmenting agroecological urbanism: the intersection of food sovereignty and food democracy	7
Impacts of organizational arrangements on conservation agriculture: insights from interpretive structural modeling in Iran	7
A new list and prioritization of wild plants of socioeconomic interest in Italy: toward a conservation strategy	6
Characterizing agroecological and conventional farmers: uncovering their motivations, practices, and perspectives toward agriculture	6
Effect of pasture management on bioactive compounds ofLolium multiflorum and Avena strigosafor dairy cows and its effect on milk quality	6
Smallholders’ awareness of adaptation and coping measures to deal with rainfall variability in Western Kenya	6
Is the system of rice intensification (SRI) consonant with agroecology?	6
Farmers’ perspectives on soil health in Maritime Canada	6
“First we eat and then we sell”: participatory guarantee systems for alternative sustainability certification of Bolivian agri-food products	6
The leafy greens of India - their diversity, pattern of consumption, and overriding implication on food and nutrition security	6
Political analysis of the adoption of the Zero-Budget natural farming program in Andhra Pradesh, India	6
Losing practices, relationships and agency: ecological deskilling as a consequence of the uptake of modern seed varieties among South African Smallholders	6
Key insights of urban agriculture for sustainable urban development	6
Crop diversification in southwest coastal Bangladesh: insights into farming adaptation	6
Generating credibility in participatory guarantee system (PGS): a study at PGS Sul de Minas, Brazil	5
Adaptive multi-paddock grazing and wellbeing: uptake, management practices and mindset among Canadian beef producers	5
Ecosystem services from smallholder dairy based integrated farming system vis-a-vis double cropping	5
Pathways of action followed by Flemish beef farmers – an integrative view on agroecology as a practice	5
An urgent call for deep food system change	5
Sustainable integration of laying hens with crops in organic farming. A review	5
Supply of agricultural biomass residues for on-farm composting: a cross-analysis of relevant data sets for the most sustainable management combination	5
Paths of least resilience: advancing a methodology to assess the sustainability of food system innovations - the case of CRISPR	5
The integration of food policies in a local administration system: the case of the Milan food policy	5
Drivers and barriers to uptake of regenerative agriculture in southeast Queensland: a mental model study	4
The challenge posed by urban dietary norms to the practice of urban agroecology	4
Silvopastoral production as part of alternative food networks: Agroforestry systems in Umbria and Lazio, Italy	4
Effects of intercropping medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) on grapevine cv. Sangiovese berry volatile compounds	4
On-farm conservation in Phaseolus lunatus L: an alternative for agricultural biodiversity	4
A voice for African agroecology	4
How bugs showed me the way to Agroecology	4

Building an agroecological model to understand the effects of agrochemical subsidies on farmer decisions	4
An agroecological vision of perennial agriculture	4
Strategies for the valorization of sustainable productions through an organic district model	4
‘With agroecology, we can defend ourselves’: examining campesino resilience and economic solidarity during pandemic-era economic shock in Guatemala	4
Is push-pull climate- and gender-smart for Ethiopia? A review	4
What contribution of agroecology to job creation in sub-Saharan Africa? The case of horticulture in the Niayes, Senegal	4
Custodians of common bean diversity in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil: revealing their socioeconomic and environmental profile	4
Sustainable intensification through double-cropping and plant-based fertilization: production and plant-soil nitrogen interactions in a 5-year crop rotation of organic vegetables	3
Essential elements of self-organization illustrated through localized agri-food systems	3
Diversity of farmers’ varieties of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in northeastern and southwestern Ethiopia	3
Understanding the conditions of conservation agriculture adoption in Lango region, Uganda	3
A data mining approach gives insights of causes related to the ongoing transgene presence in Mexican native maize populations	3
Investing in agroecology in Africa	3
Spatial dependence of family farms’ adoption behavior of green control techniques in China	3
A qualitative approach to food loss. The case of the production of fruit in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain)	3
A scoping review of participatory research methods in agroecology studies conducted in South Asia	3
Agroecology in semiarid Chaco forests of Argentina: transdisciplinary analysis of a sustainable peasant farm	3
Transforming the food system: what does it mean?	3
Opportunities for enhancing the climate resilience of coffee production through improved crop, soil and water management	3
Preserving the wildness of crop wild relatives	3
“This Feminism is Transformative, Rebellious and Autonomous”: inside struggles to shape the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment	3
Agroecology in the West Balkans: pathway of development and future perspectives	3
Beyond the bean: Analyzing diversified farming, food security, dietary diversity, and gender in Nicaragua’s smallholders coffee cooperatives	3
Varietal selection in marginal agroecological niches and cultural landscapes: the case of rice in the Togo Hills	3
Why is grazing management being overlooked in climate adaptation policy?	3
A case study on the opportunity and challenges faced by organic farming in Jiangsu Province	3
Practices of food autonomy in the nasa indigenous cosmovision in Colombia	3
Photovoice as a method for co-constructing agroecological knowledge in northern Malawi	3
Introducing agroecology in primary schools: an independent impact evaluation in Uruguay	3
Comparative chemical composition and rumen degradation of common reed and elephant grass in urban/peri-urban dairying systems in Uganda	3
Reinvention of family farming markets in Brazil: the novelty of digital marketing sites and platforms in times of COVID-19	3
Critical food systems education, neoliberalism, and the alternative campus tour	3
Farms in transition: agroecological farming giving families an edge in the face of declining agricultural productivity and climate stress in Bikita, Zimbabwe	3
Agroecological management with intra- and interspecific diversification as an alternative to conventional soil nutrient management in family maize farming	3
ICT4Agroecology part II: outcomes for maize production systems	3
Soil management practices of farmers in the Kāneʻohe Bay watershed and potential for implementing algae-based soil amendments	3
Participatory future visions of collaborative agroecological farmer-pastoralist systems in Tanzania	3
Advantages, disadvantages, and reasons for non-adoption of rotational grazing, herbal leys, trees on farms and ley-arable rotations on English livestock farms	2
Intercropping legumes and cereals increases resource use efficiency and crop productivity in low phosphorus soils under semi-arid Mediterranean conditions	2
Academic network-building for agroecology and sustainable agri-food systems in Southeast Asia: critical reflections on a regional initiative	2
Why and how do farmers’ organizations get involved in the promotion of agroecological techniques? Insights from Burkina Faso	2
Why is there a food crisis?	2
How do knowledge systems shape agroecology transitions?	2
Better performance of organic than conventional tomato varieties in single and mixed cropping	2
Codesigning sustainable land uses: framing participatory methods for research and development projects	2
Agroecology-oriented farmers’ groups. A missing level in the construction of agroecology-based local agri-food systems?	2
Redesign the agroecosystem through biodiversity: revising concepts and integrating visions	2
Effects of fresh and anaerobically digested algae (G. salicornia) as soil amendments on yield and nutrient concentrations of Pak Choy	2
ICT4Agroecology: a participatory research methodology for agroecological field research in Tanzania	2
How much do extension agents and advisors value agroecology in different countries? Contributions to the understanding of their potential role in scaling up agroecology	2
Gender, agroecology and local markets at São José de Mipibu in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil	2
Adoption challenges, needs for extension programming, and program delivery formats for organic grain producers in the U.S. Corn Belt	2
Terraces and ancestral knowledge in an Andean agroecosystem: a call for inclusiveness in planetary health action	2
Introducing grain legumes for crop diversification and sustainable food production systems amongst urban small-holder farmers: a food and nutrition security project in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	2
Adoption factors and structural characteristics of irrigated olive grove agroforestry systems in Central Tunisia	2
Transforming food systems towards agroecology – a critical analysis of agroforestry and mixed farming policy in 19 European countries	2
The ‘inner’ dimension of Dutch farmers’ trajectories of change: drivers, triggers and turning points for sustained agroecological practices	2
Effect of seasonality on food access in subsistence and cash dependent Maya households in large and small rural communities in Yucatan, Mexico	2
The impacts of agricultural windbreaks on avian communities and ecosystem services provisioning in the Bellbird Biological Corridor, Costa Rica	2
Scaling agroecology for food system transformation in metropolitan areas: Agroecological characterization and role of knowledge in community-supported agriculture farms connected to a food hub in Berl	2
A bird’s eye view: fruit grower interest in adoption of raptor nest boxes	2
Campesino a Campesino (peasant to peasant) processes versus conventional extension: a comparative model to examine agroecological scaling	2
Agroecology in a changing climate	2
Exploring opportunities and constraints of a certification scheme for regenerative agricultural practice	2
Tradeoffs of a rising agroecological practice: addressing uncertainty around tarping with participatory action research and mixed methods	2
Alternative food networks: motivations for engaging in and the contribution to more organic production and consumption of food in REKO networks in Norway	2
Societal dynamics of sustainability certification in Ghanaian cocoa producing communities: Assessing social cohesion effects and their implications for collective action	2
Examining value-based framing of agroecology by experts in training centers in Belgium, France, and Spain	2
Combined application of mica waste and Bacillus pseudomycoides as a potassium solubilizing bio-fertilizer reduced the dose of potassium fertilizer in tea-growing soil	2
Street vending of traditional and indigenous food and the potential contribution to household income, food security and dietary diversity: the case of Gaborone, Botswana	2