OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment is 18. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Maximizing value of genetic sequence data requires an enabling environment and urgency	265
High frequency phone surveys for tracking food prices: Evidence from the KasuwaGo project	171
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	157
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	137
Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana	128
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	102
Unlocking the potential of aquatic foods in global food security and nutrition: A missing piece under the lens of seafood liking index	99
Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise	98
Climate change and sex-specific labor intensity: An empirical analysis in Africa	90
What is wrong with biofortification	72
Organic farming expansion and food security: A review of foresight modeling studies	58
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	51
Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture	50
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	48
Helping feed the world with rice innovations: CGIAR research adoption and socioeconomic impact on farmers	48
Do international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transformation? A textual analysis of design documents	45
Gender Inequalities in Agrifood Systems: An overview of the state of research	45
Measuring agricultural sustainability: Revisiting Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 2.4.1 and its proxy	44
Guiding sector transformation: Power strategies of a non-state actor in the centrally planned seed sector of Ethiopia	43
Varietal turn-over and their effect on yield and food security – Evidence from 20 years of household surveys in Kenya	43
Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice	42
Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil	42
Price shocks and associated policy responses stemming from the Russia-Ukraine War and other global crises: Evidence from six African countries	41
Rural-urban transition and food security in India	41
Revisiting the drought-food insecurity nexus: a social-ecological systems perspective	40

Maize yield forecasts for Sub-Saharan Africa using Earth Observation data and machine learning	39
Quantifying food consumption supply risk: An analysis across countries and agricultural products	39
Consumer pesticide concerns and the choice of fruit and vegetable markets in five low- and middle-income countries	38
Maize varietal turnover in eastern Africa: Current challenges and future research directions	38
Potential and limitations of machine learning modeling for forecasting Acute Food Insecurity	36
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system	36
Does institutional quality affect the impact of public agricultural spending on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?	34
Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review	34
How do food companies try to reach lower-income consumers, and do they succeed? Insights from a systematic review	33
Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region	32
Beyond the bin: demographic characteristics and attitudes associated with dumpster diving. The UK as a case study	32
Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?	32
Natural resources management for resilient inclusive rural transformation	30
Urbanization shapes West African diets throughout the rural-urban continuum	30
A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food	29
Understanding adolescents’ lived experience of food poverty. A multi-method study among food aid recipient families in Italy.	28
Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts	27
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship	27
The myth of the market queens: A case study of women and power in Ghanaian markets	27
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis	27
Levelling the farm fields: A cross-country study of the determinants of gender-based yield gaps	26
Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	26
Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability	26
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	26
It's time to consider global catastrophic food failures	25
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals	25
Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A comparison across African countries	25
Are AgriFoodTech start-ups the new drivers of food systems transformation? An overview of the state of the art and a research agenda	25
COVID-19 mobility restrictions and stay-at-home behaviour in 2020 were associated with higher retail food prices worldwide	24
Farming for the future: Understanding factors enabling the adoption of diversified farming systems	24
An evaluative framework for inclusive agricultural value chain policies and interventions – Case: Mali	24
The protein transition into context – the impact of dietary shifts in different countries on nutritional adequacy of diets	24
Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens	24
Uncovering the gap: Assessing the compliance of the canadian food availability with dietary recommendations and its impact on the environment	23
The role of trade in pacific food security and nutrition	23
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	23
Agricultural extension and food security – The case of Uganda	23
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	23
New insights into the measurement of household well-being for vulnerable economies: Evidence from Pakistan's labor and diet data	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
Grain legume production in Europe for food, feed and meat-substitution	21
Food System Policies: A global snapshot from the Food System Policy Database	20
Global analysis of nitrogen fertilization effects on grain zinc and iron of major cereal crops.	19
Resilience of food supply systems to sudden shocks: A global review and narrative synthesis	19
Change in dietary pattern of Agri commodities in the past six decades: Time-varying VAR approach	18
A global scoping review of alternative food movements calls for food justice and justice beyond individual humans	18
How to swarm? Organizing for sustainable and equitable food systems transformation in a time of crisis	18
Gender dynamics in agrifood value chains: Advances in research and practice over the last decade	18