OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment is 26. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Covid-19 lockdowns, income distribution, and food security: An analysis for South Africa	227
Animal source foods: Sustainability problem or malnutrition and sustainability solution? Perspective matters	190
Impacts of climate change on the livestock food supply chain; a review of the evidence	178
The battle for biomass: A systematic review of food-feed-fuel competition	156
Rising concerns over agricultural production as COVID-19 spreads: Lessons from China	149
Emerging COVID-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system	132
Regenerative agriculture – the soil is the base	130
Food system resilience and COVID-19 – Lessons from the Asian experience	121
The processed food revolution in African food systems and the double burden of malnutrition	115
Global assessment of the impacts of COVID-19 on food security	111
Legumes as a sustainable source of protein in human diets	108
Global expansion of quinoa and challenges for the Andean region	101
Can agroecology improve food security and nutrition? A review	99
The Food Security Conundrum of sub-Saharan Africa	87
Outlook of China's agriculture transforming from smallholder operation to sustainable production	78
A research vision for food systems in the 2020s: Defying the status quo	77
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	71
Maize agro-food systems to ensure food and nutrition security in reference to the Sustainable Development Goals	70
Agricultural mechanization in Africa: Myths, realities and an emerging research agenda	65
Global phosphorus supply chain dynamics: Assessing regional impact to 2050	64
Potential impacts of Ukraine-Russia armed conflict on global wheat food security: A quantitative exploration	64
Achieving global food security by focusing on nitrogen efficiency potentials and local production	63
Do smallholder farmers benefit from sustainability standards? A systematic review and meta-analysis	60
Estimating the global number and distribution of maize and wheat farms	60
Policy options for mitigating impacts of COVID-19 on domestic rice value chains and food security in West Africa	60

Food systems everywhere: Improving relevance in practice	60
Uncovering research streams on agri-food supply chain management: A bibliometric study	60
Food security and welfare changes under COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts and responses in Kenya	59
Regional impact of COVID-19 on the production and food security of common bean smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implication for SDG's	58
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fish consumption and household food security in Dhaka city, Bangladesh	58
Improving adoption of technologies and interventions for increasing supply of quality livestock feed in low- and middle-income countries	56
The state of rice value chain upgrading in West Africa	56
What is ‘conventional’ agriculture?	55
The shift to plant-based diets: are we missing the point?	54
Aquaculture: The missing contributor in the food security agenda	54
Feeding cities: Singapore's approach to land use planning for urban agriculture	52
Assessing nutritional, health, and environmental sustainability dimensions of agri-food production	52
Recent food safety and fraud issues within the dairy supply chain (2015–2019)	51
A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems	46
Estimating the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown on UK food retailers and the restaurant sector	45
Digital food marketing to children: Exploitation, surveillance and rights violations	43
A new typology of small farms in Europe	43
Sustainable food protein supply reconciling human and ecosystem health: A Leibniz Position	41
The interplay between food market access and farm household dietary diversity in low and middle income countries: A systematic review of literature	41
Why are agri-food systems resistant to new directions of change? A systematic review	41
How do food safety concerns affect consumer behaviors and diets in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic review	41
Consumer experiences of food environments during the Covid-19 pandemic: Global insights from a rapid online survey of individuals from 119 countries	41
Varietal replacement rate: Prospects and challenges for global food security	40
Urban food markets and the COVID-19 lockdown in India	40
Conceptual framework of food systems for children and adolescents	40
Global analysis of phosphorus fertilizer use efficiency in cereal crops	40
The logics of war and food (in)security	40
Loss and waste in fish value chains: A review of the evidence from low and middle-income countries	40
Population protein intakes and food sustainability indices: The metrics matter	40
Edible insects collected from forests for family livelihood and wellness of rural communities: A review	39
Towards sustainable food production systems in Qatar: Assessment of the viability of aquaponics	38
Fish for food and nutrition security in Ghana: Challenges and opportunities	38
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system	37
The Ukraine war and rising commodity prices: Implications for developing countries	37
Assessing the role of small farms in regional food systems in Europe: Evidence from a comparative study	37
Using crowd-sourced data for real-time monitoring of food prices during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from a pilot project in northern Nigeria	36
Agri-food systems in India: Concerns and policy recommendations for building resilience in post COVID-19 pandemic times	35
Improved storage mitigates vulnerability to food-supply shocks in smallholder agriculture during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Children's and adolescents' characteristics and interactions with the food system	35
The Russia-Ukraine war: Implications for global and regional food security and potential policy responses	35
Modelling alternative futures of global food security: Insights from FOODSECURE	35
A review of satellite-based global agricultural monitoring systems available for Africa	34
The diets of children: Overview of available data for children and adolescents	33
Food insecurity and political instability during the Arab Spring	33
Understanding drivers of food choice in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic mapping study	32
Child-centered food systems: Reorienting food systems towards healthy diets for children	31
Urbanization, processed foods, and eating out in India	31
Food environment interventions targeting children and adolescents: A scoping review	31
How sustainable is sustainable intensification? Assessing yield gaps at field and farm level across the globe	31
Defining healthy and sustainable diets for infants, children and adolescents	31

Opportunities and challenges for biofortification of cassava to address iron and zinc deficiency in Nigeria	30
Elaborating the science of food choice for rapidly changing food systems in low-and middle-income countries	30
Colliding paradigms and trade-offs: Agri-food systems and value chain interventions	30
Unhealthy eating practices of city-dwelling Africans in deprived neighbourhoods: Evidence for policy action from Ghana and Kenya	29
How might technology rise to the challenge of data sharing in agri-food?	29
Public food procurement for sustainable diets and food systems: The role of the regulatory framework	29
Urban agriculture may change food consumption towards low carbon diets	29
Responsible plant nutrition: A new paradigm to support food system transformation	28
Building a resilient and sustainable food system in a changing world – A case for climate-smart and nutrient dense crops	28
Best practices for subsidizing agricultural insurance	28
Inland fisheries critical for the diet quality of young children in sub-Saharan Africa	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
Social-ecological traps link food systems to nutritional outcomes	27
Food policy and the unruliness of consumption: An intergenerational social practice approach to uncover transforming food consumption in modernizing Hanoi, Vietnam.	27
A review of evidence on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems	27
Reframing malnutrition in all its forms: A critique of the tripartite classification of malnutrition	26
How do small farms contribute to food and nutrition security? Linking European small farms, strategies and outcomes in territorial food systems	26
Nudging children toward healthier food choices: An experiment combining school and home gardens	26
Inclusiveness of consumer access to food safety: Evidence from certified rice in Vietnam	26
Value chains to improve diets: Diagnostics to support intervention design in Malawi	26
Systemic risk and food security. Emerging trends and future avenues for research	26