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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	282
High frequency phone surveys for tracking food prices: Evidence from the KasuwaGo project	182
Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana	171
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	153
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	124
Climate change and sex-specific labor intensity: An empirical analysis in Africa	86
Do international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transformation? A textual analysis of design documents	67
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	57
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	57
Why public wheat breeding needs patient capital: institutional erosion and the fragile foundation of global food security	51
What is wrong with biofortification	51
Organic farming expansion and food security: A review of foresight modeling studies	49
Gender Inequalities in Agrifood Systems: An overview of the state of research	48
Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise	46
Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture	45
Consumer pesticide concerns and the choice of fruit and vegetable markets in five low- and middle-income countries	43
Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review	40
Potential and limitations of machine learning modeling for forecasting Acute Food Insecurity	39
Guiding sector transformation: Power strategies of a non-state actor in the centrally planned seed sector of Ethiopia	39
How do food companies try to reach lower-income consumers, and do they succeed? Insights from a systematic review	39
Maize varietal turnover in eastern Africa: Current challenges and future research directions	38
Rural-urban transition and food security in India	37
Varietal turn-over and their effect on yield and food security – Evidence from 20 years of household surveys in Kenya	36
Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice	35
Measuring agricultural sustainability: Revisiting Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 2.4.1 and its proxy	35

Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil	33
Revisiting the drought-food insecurity nexus: a social-ecological systems perspective	33
Does institutional quality affect the impact of public agricultural spending on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?	32
Quantifying food consumption supply risk: An analysis across countries and agricultural products	32
Urbanization shapes West African diets throughout the rural-urban continuum	31
Understanding adolescents’ lived experience of food poverty. A multi-method study among food aid recipient families in Italy.	31
Price shocks and associated policy responses stemming from the Russia-Ukraine War and other global crises: Evidence from six African countries	31
Beyond the bin: demographic characteristics and attitudes associated with dumpster diving. The UK as a case study	30
Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?	30
Natural resources management for resilient inclusive rural transformation	30
A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food	29
The myth of the market queens: A case study of women and power in Ghanaian markets	28
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship	28
Levelling the farm fields: A cross-country study of the determinants of gender-based yield gaps	28
Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region	28
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
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis	28
Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts	27
Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	27
Are AgriFoodTech start-ups the new drivers of food systems transformation? An overview of the state of the art and a research agenda	27
Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A comparison across African countries	27
Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability	26
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals	26
Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens	24
The protein transition into context – the impact of dietary shifts in different countries on nutritional adequacy of diets	24
Uncovering the gap: Assessing the compliance of the canadian food availability with dietary recommendations and its impact on the environment	24
An evaluative framework for inclusive agricultural value chain policies and interventions – Case: Mali	23
It's time to consider global catastrophic food failures	23
The role of trade in pacific food security and nutrition	22
COVID-19 mobility restrictions and stay-at-home behaviour in 2020 were associated with higher retail food prices worldwide	21
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	19
Agricultural extension and food security – The case of Uganda	19
New insights into the measurement of household well-being for vulnerable economies: Evidence from Pakistan's labor and diet data	19
Farming for the future: Understanding factors enabling the adoption of diversified farming systems	19
Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex	19
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	19
What do the 235 estimates from the literature tell us about the impact of weather on agricultural and food trade flows?	18
Grain legume production in Europe for food, feed and meat-substitution	18
Assessing the effectiveness of agricultural commercialization interventions in improving food security in developing countries: A meta review	18
Food System Policies: A global snapshot from the Food System Policy Database	18
A global scoping review of alternative food movements calls for food justice and justice beyond individual humans	18
Change in dietary pattern of Agri commodities in the past six decades: Time-varying VAR approach	18
Capital constraints or biased norms? Tracing the root of gendered agricultural productivity in rural China	18
Gender dynamics in agrifood value chains: Advances in research and practice over the last decade	17
Trade-offs for healthy and sustainable diets in Europe: Social-ecological dynamics in an intensive agricultural system	17
The CGIAR needs a revolution	17
Disparities and determinants of Somali refugee food security in Nairobi, Kenya	17
Post-farmgate food businesses of India: The enterprises, the entrepreneurs, and the employees	17
Resilience of food supply systems to sudden shocks: A global review and narrative synthesis	17
Complex network analysis and health implications of nutrient trade	16

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