OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment is 20. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	229
Maximizing value of genetic sequence data requires an enabling environment and urgency	183
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	160
Towards improving food safety in Cambodia: Current status and emerging opportunities	145
High frequency phone surveys for tracking food prices: Evidence from the KasuwaGo project	143
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	119
An analysis of the transformative potential of major food system report recommendations	117
Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana	111
Climate change and sex-specific labor intensity: An empirical analysis in Africa	110
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	103
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	84
Organic farming expansion and food security: A review of foresight modeling studies	82
Do international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transformation? A textual analysis of design documents	75
Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture	72
Gender Inequalities in Agrifood Systems: An overview of the state of research	68
What is wrong with biofortification	58
Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise	53
Continuity and change in the contemporary Pacific food system	53
Helping feed the world with rice innovations: CGIAR research adoption and socioeconomic impact on farmers	52
Unlocking the potential of aquatic foods in global food security and nutrition: A missing piece under the lens of seafood liking index	51
Measuring agricultural sustainability: Revisiting Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 2.4.1 and its proxy	47
Rural-urban transition and food security in India	46
Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review	46
Maize yield forecasts for Sub-Saharan Africa using Earth Observation data and machine learning	45
How do food companies try to reach lower-income consumers, and do they succeed? Insights from a systematic review	45

Consumer pesticide concerns and the choice of fruit and vegetable markets in five low- and middle-income countries	45
Does institutional quality affect the impact of public agricultural spending on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?	43
Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice	42
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system	41
Guiding sector transformation: Power strategies of a non-state actor in the centrally planned seed sector of Ethiopia	40
Revisiting the drought-food insecurity nexus: a social-ecological systems perspective	40
Maize varietal turnover in eastern Africa: Current challenges and future research directions	39
Varietal turn-over and their effect on yield and food security – Evidence from 20 years of household surveys in Kenya	39
Potential and limitations of machine learning modeling for forecasting Acute Food Insecurity	38
Quantifying food consumption supply risk: An analysis across countries and agricultural products	38
Price shocks and associated policy responses stemming from the Russia-Ukraine War and other global crises: Evidence from six African countries	38
Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil	37
Urbanization shapes West African diets throughout the rural-urban continuum	37
Pollinator-dependent crops in Brazil yield nearly half of nutrients for humans and livestock feed	37
Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region	36
Actions in global nutrition initiatives to promote sustainable healthy diets	36
A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food	36
Understanding adolescents’ lived experience of food poverty. A multi-method study among food aid recipient families in Italy.	35
Natural resources management for resilient inclusive rural transformation	34
Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?	33
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals	32
Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	32
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis	32
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship	32
Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts	32
The myth of the market queens: A case study of women and power in Ghanaian markets	32
Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A comparison across African countries	31
Levelling the farm fields: A cross-country study of the determinants of gender-based yield gaps	31
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	29
Are AgriFoodTech start-ups the new drivers of food systems transformation? An overview of the state of the art and a research agenda	28
Transforming food systems: Multi-stakeholder platforms driven by consumer concerns and public demands	27
It's time to consider global catastrophic food failures	27
Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability	27
Putting food systems thinking into practice: Integrating agricultural sectors into a multi-level analytical framework	27
Differences in the early impact of COVID-19 on food security and livelihoods in rural and urban areas in the Asia Pacific Region	27
An evaluative framework for inclusive agricultural value chain policies and interventions – Case: Mali	26
The role of trade in pacific food security and nutrition	26
Uncovering the gap: Assessing the compliance of the canadian food availability with dietary recommendations and its impact on the environment	25
The role of public-private partnerships in improving global food security	25
The protein transition into context – the impact of dietary shifts in different countries on nutritional adequacy of diets	25
Agricultural extension and food security – The case of Uganda	25
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	24
How have smallholder farmers used digital extension tools? Developer and user voices from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia	23
Farming for the future: Understanding factors enabling the adoption of diversified farming systems	23
COVID-19 mobility restrictions and stay-at-home behaviour in 2020 were associated with higher retail food prices worldwide	23
Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens	23
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	22
New insights into the measurement of household well-being for vulnerable economies: Evidence from Pakistan's labor and diet data	22
Disability inclusion: A missing ingredient for food system equity	22
Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex	22

Food System Policies: A global snapshot from the Food System Policy Database	21
How to swarm? Organizing for sustainable and equitable food systems transformation in a time of crisis	20
Implementation and scale-up of nutrition-sensitive agriculture in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of what works, what doesn't work and why	20
Grain legume production in Europe for food, feed and meat-substitution	20
Capital constraints or biased norms? Tracing the root of gendered agricultural productivity in rural China	20
Current state of nutrition in West Africa and projections to 2030	20
Perspective: The gap between intent and climate action in agriculture	20