OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	269
High frequency phone surveys for tracking food prices: Evidence from the KasuwaGo project	176
Maximizing value of genetic sequence data requires an enabling environment and urgency	160
Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana	143
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	136
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	105
Unlocking the potential of aquatic foods in global food security and nutrition: A missing piece under the lens of seafood liking index	103
Organic farming expansion and food security: A review of foresight modeling studies	99
Climate change and sex-specific labor intensity: An empirical analysis in Africa	91
Gender Inequalities in Agrifood Systems: An overview of the state of research	76
Do international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transformation? A textual analysis of design documents	62
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	51
Helping feed the world with rice innovations: CGIAR research adoption and socioeconomic impact on farmers	51
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	51
What is wrong with biofortification	49
Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise	48
Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture	47
Guiding sector transformation: Power strategies of a non-state actor in the centrally planned seed sector of Ethiopia	46
Measuring agricultural sustainability: Revisiting Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 2.4.1 and its proxy	46
Price shocks and associated policy responses stemming from the Russia-Ukraine War and other global crises: Evidence from six African countries	45
Quantifying food consumption supply risk: An analysis across countries and agricultural products	44
Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review	43
Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil	42
How do food companies try to reach lower-income consumers, and do they succeed? Insights from a systematic review	42
Does institutional quality affect the impact of public agricultural spending on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?	41

Consumer pesticide concerns and the choice of fruit and vegetable markets in five low- and middle-income countries	40
Potential and limitations of machine learning modeling for forecasting Acute Food Insecurity	40
Maize varietal turnover in eastern Africa: Current challenges and future research directions	39
Rural-urban transition and food security in India	39
Varietal turn-over and their effect on yield and food security – Evidence from 20 years of household surveys in Kenya	39
Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice	38
Revisiting the drought-food insecurity nexus: a social-ecological systems perspective	36
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system	35
Maize yield forecasts for Sub-Saharan Africa using Earth Observation data and machine learning	35
Beyond the bin: demographic characteristics and attitudes associated with dumpster diving. The UK as a case study	34
Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region	34
Understanding adolescents’ lived experience of food poverty. A multi-method study among food aid recipient families in Italy.	33
Urbanization shapes West African diets throughout the rural-urban continuum	33
A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food	31
Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?	31
Natural resources management for resilient inclusive rural transformation	30
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis	29
A risk governance approach to mitigating food system risks in a crisis: Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic in five low- and middle-income countries	28
Levelling the farm fields: A cross-country study of the determinants of gender-based yield gaps	28
Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability	27
Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	27
Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A comparison across African countries	27
The myth of the market queens: A case study of women and power in Ghanaian markets	27
Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts	27
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals	26
An evaluative framework for inclusive agricultural value chain policies and interventions – Case: Mali	26
Are AgriFoodTech start-ups the new drivers of food systems transformation? An overview of the state of the art and a research agenda	26
Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens	26
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship	26
The protein transition into context – the impact of dietary shifts in different countries on nutritional adequacy of diets	26
It's time to consider global catastrophic food failures	26
Agricultural extension and food security – The case of Uganda	25
Farming for the future: Understanding factors enabling the adoption of diversified farming systems	25
Uncovering the gap: Assessing the compliance of the canadian food availability with dietary recommendations and its impact on the environment	25
The role of trade in pacific food security and nutrition	25
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	24
COVID-19 mobility restrictions and stay-at-home behaviour in 2020 were associated with higher retail food prices worldwide	24
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	24
Grain legume production in Europe for food, feed and meat-substitution	23
New insights into the measurement of household well-being for vulnerable economies: Evidence from Pakistan's labor and diet data	23
Food System Policies: A global snapshot from the Food System Policy Database	22
Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex	22
Capital constraints or biased norms? Tracing the root of gendered agricultural productivity in rural China	21
How to swarm? Organizing for sustainable and equitable food systems transformation in a time of crisis	19
Resilience of food supply systems to sudden shocks: A global review and narrative synthesis	19
A global scoping review of alternative food movements calls for food justice and justice beyond individual humans	19
Change in dietary pattern of Agri commodities in the past six decades: Time-varying VAR approach	19
What do the 235 estimates from the literature tell us about the impact of weather on agricultural and food trade flows?	18
Global analysis of nitrogen fertilization effects on grain zinc and iron of major cereal crops.	18
Gender dynamics in agrifood value chains: Advances in research and practice over the last decade	18

The CGIAR needs a revolution	18
Food system games for sustainability transformation – A review	17
Complex network analysis and health implications of nutrient trade	17
Post-farmgate food businesses of India: The enterprises, the entrepreneurs, and the employees	17
Food environment framework in low- and middle-income countries - An integrative review	17
The role of water in transforming food systems	16
Unpacking the role of neglected and underutilized plant species in smallholder diversification strategies for food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Senegal	16
Halving nitrogen waste in the European Union food systems requires both dietary shifts and farm level actions	16
Agricultural value chains and food security in the Pacific: Evidence from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands	16
Evidence supports the potential for climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania	16
The right to certify – Institutionalizing participatory guarantee systems (PGS): A Latin American cross-country comparison	16
Disparities and determinants of Somali refugee food security in Nairobi, Kenya	16
A systematic review of review studies on women’s empowerment and food security literature	16
Informal pandemic precarity and migrant food enterprise in South Africa during COVID-19	16
Unintended consequences of a financial incentive scheme for fruit and vegetable purchasing in an unorganised retail setting in rural India	16
Trade-offs for healthy and sustainable diets in Europe: Social-ecological dynamics in an intensive agricultural system	16
Diet cost and affordability metrics, their application today and in the future	15
Food processing and sustainability: Exploring new multidisciplinary perspectives	15
A compass identifying outcomes for sustainable food systems	15
Knowledge gaps about micronutrient deficiencies in Tanzania and the effect of information interventions	15
Expanding the food environment framework to include family dynamics: A systematic synthesis of qualitative evidence using HIV as a case study	15
Food security amid the US Iran war: a food system analysis and a framework for coordinated multilevel action	14
Food security and the cultural heritage missing link	14
Analyzing diet cost and affordability: A dataset from Fill the Nutrient Gap analyses (2015–2021)	14
The power of on-farm data for improved agronomy	14
Iron biofortification and yield of wheat grain in response to Fe fertilization and its driving variables: A meta-analysis	13
Resilient and inclusive rural transformation: Exploring pathways for sustainable development	13
The alienation of abundance: A resonance theory perspective on food waste	13
Spatial variation in the cost and affordability of the global healthy diet basket: Evidence from household surveys in five African countries	13
Food production as insurance against maize price volatility: Nutritional implications for children in Tanzania	13
Trade-offs associated with achieving food self-sufficiency: The underlying mechanisms	13
Does dairy intensification threaten livelihood diversity in East Africa?	12
Food sovereignty and autonomy for indigenous health as resistance to food globalization: Scoping review	12
Economic integration and food security – The case of the AfCFTA	12
The benefits and trade-offs of agricultural diversity for food security in low- and middle-income countries: A review of existing knowledge and evidence	12
Ecological functional diversity predicts nutritional functional diversity in complex agroforests	12
Protecting child nutrition and fishery ecosystems: A cluster controlled trial in coastal Kenya	12
The role of social protection in achieving resilient and inclusive rural transformation	12
Making better policies for food systems will require reducing evidence gaps	12
Meta-analysis of the impacts of digital information interventions on agricultural development	11
This is our last goodbye	11
COVID-19: Solidarity initiatives for food security in the Mayan indigenous region of south-southeast Mexico	11
Assessing returns to research investments in rice varietal development: Evidence from the Philippines and Bangladesh	11
Responsible plant nutrition: A new paradigm to support food system transformation	11
Response to letter to the editor from Boddupalli et al.	11
Measuring food access using least-cost diets: Results for global monitoring and targeting of interventions to improve food security, nutrition and health	10
Toward Core Indicators for Resilience Analysis: A framework to promote harmonized metrics and empirical coherence	10
Potential impacts of Ukraine-Russia armed conflict on global wheat food security: A quantitative exploration	10
Change in the climate and other factors affecting agriculture, food or poverty: An opportunity, a threat or both? A personal perspective	10
Can we agree on a food loss and waste definition? An assessment of definitional elements for a globally applicable framework	10
COVID-19 impact on food consumption of low-skilled employees in India	10
Dietary inadequacy in Tanzania is linked to the rising cost of nutritious foods and consumption of food-away-from-home	9
A systematic review of the evolution of food system resilience assessment	9
Why do epidemics cause more hunger even when global food production is unaffected?	9
The Nanjing model: Comprehensive food system governance, localization and urban food security in China	9
Fostering an enabling environment for equality and empowerment in agri-food systems: An assessment at multiple scales	9
Resilient and inclusive rural transformation: Pathways towards improved nutrition	9
Inequality of opportunity in children's nutritional outcomes in China	9
The role of recall periods when predicting food insecurity: A machine learning application in Nigeria	9
Interactions with the external food environment and dietary quality in Thailand and Laos	9
Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health	9
Validating the food insecurity experience scale for use in analyses of recent food insecurity	8
The role of genetically modified organisms in food, energy, and sustainability in developing countries	8
The affordability gap for nutritious diets – How big is it and how to close it?	8
Poverty, price and preference barriers to improving diets in sub-Saharan Africa	8
Perspective paper: Framework to assess the potential of circular food system technologies	8
Refrigerator ownership and child health and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries	8
Narrowing the ecological yield gap to sustain crop yields with less inputs	8
Flour blending can mitigate food insecurity and economic stress	7
Myths about the feminization of agriculture: Implications for global food security	7
Time to transform? Sustainability narratives for European food systems	7
Letter to the editor of global food security	7
Water-cropland resources and agricultural management shape the main interactions with food self-sufficiency goals	7
Africanizing genome editing for food sustainability	7
Conceptualizing circularity in urban food systems: A scoping review	7
Entrepreneur-led food fortification: A complementary approach for nutritious diets in developing countries	7
Pathways to wheat self-sufficiency in Africa	7