OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Principles for designing Agroecology-based Local (territorial) Agri-food Systems: a critical revision	35
Urban food sovereignty: urgent need for agroecology and systems thinking in a post-COVID-19 future	34
Feminist agroecology: analyzing power relationships in food systems	29
The evolving landscape of agroecological research	24
Integrated policy analysis to identify transformation paths to more sustainable legume-based food and feed value-chains in Europe	19
Agroecological practices of legume residue management and crop diversification for improved smallholder food security, dietary diversity and sustainable land use in Malawi	18
Transition to agroecology for improved food security and better living conditions: case study from a family farm in Pinar del Río, Cuba	16
Daring to build fair and sustainable urban food systems: A case study of alternative food networks in Australia	16
Can Australia transition to an agroecological future?	15
Agroecological public policies to mitigate climate change: public food procurement for school canteens in the municipality of Ames (Galicia, Spain)	15
Comprehensive impacts of diversified cropping on soil health and sustainability	14
Indigenous farming practices increase millet yields in Senegal, West Africa	14
Organic farmers face persistent barriers to adopting diversification practices in California’s Central Coast	13
Integrated assessment of system of rice intensification vs. conventional method of transplanting for economic benefit, energy efficiency and lower global warming potential in India	13
Pensamiento Latinoamericano Agroecológico: the emergence of a critical Latin American agroecology?	13
Agroecology and spirituality: reflections about an unrecognized link	13
Indigenous knowledge and the enhancement of community resilience to climate change in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam	12
Confronting Covid-19 with agroecology	12
Urban and peri-urban agriculture as a strategy for creating more sustainable and resilient urban food systems and facing socio-environmental emergencies	12
Opportunities and barriers in diversified farming and the use of agroecological principles in the Global North – The experiences of Danish biodynamic farmers	12
Does crop diversification lead to climate-related resilience? Improving the theory through insights on practice	11
Ecosystem services related with Opuntia ficus-indica (prickly pear cactus): a review of challenges and opportunities	11
‘Whatever happened to the Mexican Green Revolution?’	11
Agroecological feminism	11
Regaining the Agricultural Potential of Sodic Soils and Improved Smallholder Food Security through Integration of Gypsum, Pressmud and Salt Tolerant Varieties	10

Sow what you sell: strategies for integrating organic breeding and seed production into value chain partnerships	10
Women, agroecology and the state: New perspectives on scaling-up agroecology based on a field research in Chile	10
Transdisciplinarity in agroecology: practices and perspectives in Europe	10
A review of theoretical frameworks of food system governance, and the search for food system sustainability	9
Participatory certifications for the sustainability transition of food systems in Costa Rica: barriers and opportunities for scaling out	9
Re-conceptualizing and decolonizing resilience from a peasant perspective	9
Traditional rice-based agroecosystem in Kiangan, Ifugao, Philippines: drivers of change, resilience, and potential trajectories	9
Taking food out the private sphere? Addressing gender relations in urban food policy	8
Evaluating the impact of agroecology	8
Augmenting agroecological urbanism: the intersection of food sovereignty and food democracy	8
How agroecological farming practices reshape cattle farmers’ working conditions	8
Review: ecosystem services in permaculture systems	8
Agroecology at the UN food systems summit	8
Sustainable development at the policy-practice nexus: insights from south West Bay, Malakula Island, Vanuatu	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
Impacts of organizational arrangements on conservation agriculture: insights from interpretive structural modeling in Iran	7
Agroecology and the transition to sustainability in West African food systems	7
Spaces of sustainable transformation at territorial level: an analysis of biodistricts and their role for agroecological transitions	7
Political analysis of the adoption of the Zero-Budget natural farming program in Andhra Pradesh, India	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
Characterizing agroecological and conventional farmers: uncovering their motivations, practices, and perspectives toward agriculture	7
Resisting socio-ecological vulnerability: agroecology and indigenous cooperativism in La Montaña, Guerrero, Mexico	7
Framing local: an analysis of framing strategies for genetically modified organism (GMO) labeling initiatives in the northeastern U.S	7
Losing practices, relationships and agency: ecological deskilling as a consequence of the uptake of modern seed varieties among South African Smallholders	6
“First we eat and then we sell”: participatory guarantee systems for alternative sustainability certification of Bolivian agri-food products	6
Effect of pasture management on bioactive compounds ofLolium multiflorum and Avena strigosafor dairy cows and its effect on milk quality	6
Adaptive multi-paddock grazing and wellbeing: uptake, management practices and mindset among Canadian beef producers	6
Supply of agricultural biomass residues for on-farm composting: a cross-analysis of relevant data sets for the most sustainable management combination	6
Farmers’ perspectives on soil health in Maritime Canada	6
Crop diversification in southwest coastal Bangladesh: insights into farming adaptation	6
The leafy greens of India - their diversity, pattern of consumption, and overriding implication on food and nutrition security	6
Is the system of rice intensification (SRI) consonant with agroecology?	6
Pathways of action followed by Flemish beef farmers – an integrative view on agroecology as a practice	6
An urgent call for deep food system change	6
Key insights of urban agriculture for sustainable urban development	6
Smallholders’ awareness of adaptation and coping measures to deal with rainfall variability in Western Kenya	6
A new list and prioritization of wild plants of socioeconomic interest in Italy: toward a conservation strategy	6
Beyond the bean: Analyzing diversified farming, food security, dietary diversity, and gender in Nicaragua’s smallholders coffee cooperatives	5
Sustainable integration of laying hens with crops in organic farming. A review	5
Building an agroecological model to understand the effects of agrochemical subsidies on farmer decisions	5
The integration of food policies in a local administration system: the case of the Milan food policy	5
Generating credibility in participatory guarantee system (PGS): a study at PGS Sul de Minas, Brazil	5
Paths of least resilience: advancing a methodology to assess the sustainability of food system innovations - the case of CRISPR	5
Ecosystem services from smallholder dairy based integrated farming system vis-a-vis double cropping	5
How bugs showed me the way to Agroecology	4
Drivers and barriers to uptake of regenerative agriculture in southeast Queensland: a mental model study	4
Spatial dependence of family farms’ adoption behavior of green control techniques in China	4
What contribution of agroecology to job creation in sub-Saharan Africa? The case of horticulture in the Niayes, Senegal	4
An agroecological vision of perennial agriculture	4

Practices of food autonomy in the nasa indigenous cosmovision in Colombia	4
‘With agroecology, we can defend ourselves’: examining campesino resilience and economic solidarity during pandemic-era economic shock in Guatemala	4
A voice for African agroecology	4
Is push-pull climate- and gender-smart for Ethiopia? A review	4
Effects of intercropping medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) on grapevine cv. Sangiovese berry volatile compounds	4
Participatory future visions of collaborative agroecological farmer-pastoralist systems in Tanzania	4
On-farm conservation in Phaseolus lunatus L: an alternative for agricultural biodiversity	4
Strategies for the valorization of sustainable productions through an organic district model	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
Intercropping legumes and cereals increases resource use efficiency and crop productivity in low phosphorus soils under semi-arid Mediterranean conditions	4
Custodians of common bean diversity in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil: revealing their socioeconomic and environmental profile	4