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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Principles for designing Agroecology-based Local (territorial) Agri-food Systems: a critical revision	46
Feminist agroecology: analyzing power relationships in food systems	33
The evolving landscape of agroecological research	26
Comprehensive impacts of diversified cropping on soil health and sustainability	21
Integrated policy analysis to identify transformation paths to more sustainable legume-based food and feed value-chains in Europe	20
Organic farmers face persistent barriers to adopting diversification practices in California’s Central Coast	19
Does crop diversification lead to climate-related resilience? Improving the theory through insights on practice	19
Urban and peri-urban agriculture as a strategy for creating more sustainable and resilient urban food systems and facing socio-environmental emergencies	19
Agroecological public policies to mitigate climate change: public food procurement for school canteens in the municipality of Ames (Galicia, Spain)	18
Agroecology and spirituality: reflections about an unrecognized link	18
Integrated assessment of system of rice intensification vs. conventional method of transplanting for economic benefit, energy efficiency and lower global warming potential in India	15
Ecosystem services related with Opuntia ficus-indica (prickly pear cactus): a review of challenges and opportunities	14
Transdisciplinarity in agroecology: practices and perspectives in Europe	14
Adaptive multi-paddock grazing and wellbeing: uptake, management practices and mindset among Canadian beef producers	12
Agroecological feminism	12
Participatory certifications for the sustainability transition of food systems in Costa Rica: barriers and opportunities for scaling out	10
Regaining the Agricultural Potential of Sodic Soils and Improved Smallholder Food Security through Integration of Gypsum, Pressmud and Salt Tolerant Varieties	10
Re-conceptualizing and decolonizing resilience from a peasant perspective	10
Taking food out the private sphere? Addressing gender relations in urban food policy	10
Spaces of sustainable transformation at territorial level: an analysis of biodistricts and their role for agroecological transitions	10
A review of theoretical frameworks of food system governance, and the search for food system sustainability	10
“First we eat and then we sell”: participatory guarantee systems for alternative sustainability certification of Bolivian agri-food products	9
Agroecology at the UN food systems summit	9
Co-inquiry in agroecology research with farmers: transdisciplinary co-creation of contextualized and actionable knowledge	9
Sow what you sell: strategies for integrating organic breeding and seed production into value chain partnerships	9

Political analysis of the adoption of the Zero-Budget natural farming program in Andhra Pradesh, India	9
Characterizing agroecological and conventional farmers: uncovering their motivations, practices, and perspectives toward agriculture	9
Key insights of urban agriculture for sustainable urban development	9
How agroecological farming practices reshape cattle farmers’ working conditions	9
Sustainable development at the policy-practice nexus: insights from south West Bay, Malakula Island, Vanuatu	8
Review: ecosystem services in permaculture systems	8
‘With agroecology, we can defend ourselves’: examining campesino resilience and economic solidarity during pandemic-era economic shock in Guatemala	8
Effect of pasture management on bioactive compounds ofLolium multiflorum and Avena strigosafor dairy cows and its effect on milk quality	8
Agroecology and the transition to sustainability in West African food systems	8
A new list and prioritization of wild plants of socioeconomic interest in Italy: toward a conservation strategy	8
Farmers’ perspectives on soil health in Maritime Canada	7
The ‘inner’ dimension of Dutch farmers’ trajectories of change: drivers, triggers and turning points for sustained agroecological practices	7
Ecosystem services from smallholder dairy based integrated farming system vis-a-vis double cropping	7
Strategies for the valorization of sustainable productions through an organic district model	7
Crop diversification in southwest coastal Bangladesh: insights into farming adaptation	7
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	7
The leafy greens of India - their diversity, pattern of consumption, and overriding implication on food and nutrition security	7
On-farm conservation in Phaseolus lunatus L: an alternative for agricultural biodiversity	7
The integration of food policies in a local administration system: the case of the Milan food policy	7
An urgent call for deep food system change	6
What contribution of agroecology to job creation in sub-Saharan Africa? The case of horticulture in the Niayes, Senegal	6
Opportunities for enhancing the climate resilience of coffee production through improved crop, soil and water management	6
Paths of least resilience: advancing a methodology to assess the sustainability of food system innovations - the case of CRISPR	6
An agroecological vision of perennial agriculture	6
Losing practices, relationships and agency: ecological deskilling as a consequence of the uptake of modern seed varieties among South African Smallholders	6
Building an agroecological model to understand the effects of agrochemical subsidies on farmer decisions	6
Participatory future visions of collaborative agroecological farmer-pastoralist systems in Tanzania	6
Spatial dependence of family farms’ adoption behavior of green control techniques in China	5
Sustainable integration of laying hens with crops in organic farming. A review	5
Custodians of common bean diversity in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil: revealing their socioeconomic and environmental profile	5
Drivers and barriers to uptake of regenerative agriculture in southeast Queensland: a mental model study	5
Beyond the bean: Analyzing diversified farming, food security, dietary diversity, and gender in Nicaragua’s smallholders coffee cooperatives	5
Effect of seasonality on food access in subsistence and cash dependent Maya households in large and small rural communities in Yucatan, Mexico	5
“This Feminism is Transformative, Rebellious and Autonomous”: inside struggles to shape the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment	5
A data mining approach gives insights of causes related to the ongoing transgene presence in Mexican native maize populations	5
Agroecology-oriented farmers’ groups. A missing level in the construction of agroecology-based local agri-food systems?	5
Transforming the food system: what does it mean?	5
Challenges and potential solutions in developing community supported agriculture: a literature review	5
Diversity of farmers’ varieties of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in northeastern and southwestern Ethiopia	4
Alternative food networks: motivations for engaging in and the contribution to more organic production and consumption of food in REKO networks in Norway	4
Perspectives on agroecological transition: the case of Guachetá municipality, Colombia	4
Redesign the agroecosystem through biodiversity: revising concepts and integrating visions	4
Advantages, disadvantages, and reasons for non-adoption of rotational grazing, herbal leys, trees on farms and ley-arable rotations on English livestock farms	4
Intercropping legumes and cereals increases resource use efficiency and crop productivity in low phosphorus soils under semi-arid Mediterranean conditions	4
Exploring opportunities and constraints of a certification scheme for regenerative agricultural practice	4
Is push-pull climate- and gender-smart for Ethiopia? A review	4
Varietal selection in marginal agroecological niches and cultural landscapes: the case of rice in the Togo Hills	4
Effects of intercropping medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) on grapevine cv. Sangiovese berry volatile compounds	4
How much do extension agents and advisors value agroecology in different countries? Contributions to the understanding of their potential role in scaling up agroecology	4
Why is there a food crisis?	4

Societal dynamics of sustainability certification in Ghanaian cocoa producing communities: Assessing social cohesion effects and their implications for collective action	4
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	4
Agroecology in semiarid Chaco forests of Argentina: transdisciplinary analysis of a sustainable peasant farm	4
A scoping review of participatory research methods in agroecology studies conducted in South Asia	4
What goes in and what comes out: a scoping review of regenerative agricultural practices	4