OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment is 19. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	200
Towards improving food safety in Cambodia: Current status and emerging opportunities	167
Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana	133
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	129
An analysis of the transformative potential of major food system report recommendations	119
Is land nationalization more conducive to sustainable development of cultivated land and food security than land privatization in post-socialist Central Asia?	106
Maximizing value of genetic sequence data requires an enabling environment and urgency	100
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	99
Community-led food resilience:A decolonizing autographic learning from an Inuit community	98
High frequency phone surveys for tracking food prices: Evidence from the KasuwaGo project	95
Helping feed the world with rice innovations: CGIAR research adoption and socioeconomic impact on farmers	88
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	73
Climate change and sex-specific labor intensity: An empirical analysis in Africa	68
Organic farming expansion and food security: A review of foresight modeling studies	64
Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture	57
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	53
Do international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transformation? A textual analysis of design documents	49
What is wrong with biofortification	46
Continuity and change in the contemporary Pacific food system	44
Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise	44
Guiding sector transformation: Power strategies of a non-state actor in the centrally planned seed sector of Ethiopia	42
Unlocking the potential of aquatic foods in global food security and nutrition: A missing piece under the lens of seafood liking index	42
Varietal turn-over and their effect on yield and food security – Evidence from 20 years of household surveys in Kenya	41
Price shocks and associated policy responses stemming from the Russia-Ukraine War and other global crises: Evidence from six African countries	41
Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice	41

Maize yield forecasts for Sub-Saharan Africa using Earth Observation data and machine learning	40
Rural-urban transition and food security in India	39
Consumer pesticide concerns and the choice of fruit and vegetable markets in five low- and middle-income countries	37
Quantifying food consumption supply risk: An analysis across countries and agricultural products	36
How do food companies try to reach lower-income consumers, and do they succeed? Insights from a systematic review	36
Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review	36
Potential and limitations of machine learning modeling for forecasting Acute Food Insecurity	35
Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil	35
Does institutional quality affect the impact of public agricultural spending on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?	34
Rising land commodification in sub-Saharan Africa: Reconciling the diverse narratives	34
Social-ecological traps link food systems to nutritional outcomes	34
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system	34
Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?	33
Natural resources management for resilient inclusive rural transformation	32
Urbanization shapes West African diets throughout the rural-urban continuum	32
Understanding adolescents’ lived experience of food poverty. A multi-method study among food aid recipient families in Italy.	32
Actions in global nutrition initiatives to promote sustainable healthy diets	32
Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region	31
A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food	30
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
Pollinator-dependent crops in Brazil yield nearly half of nutrients for humans and livestock feed	29
Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	29
Putting food systems thinking into practice: Integrating agricultural sectors into a multi-level analytical framework	28
Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts	28
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals	28
Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability	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
Differences in the early impact of COVID-19 on food security and livelihoods in rural and urban areas in the Asia Pacific Region	27
The myth of the market queens: A case study of women and power in Ghanaian markets	26
Transforming food systems: Multi-stakeholder platforms driven by consumer concerns and public demands	26
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship	26
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis	26
COVID-19 mobility restrictions and stay-at-home behaviour in 2020 were associated with higher retail food prices worldwide	25
Agricultural extension and food security – The case of Uganda	25
An evaluative framework for inclusive agricultural value chain policies and interventions – Case: Mali	25
Uncovering the gap: Assessing the compliance of the canadian food availability with dietary recommendations and its impact on the environment	25
Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens	24
Five keys to prevention and control of mycotoxins in grains: A proposal	24
Farming for the future: Understanding factors enabling the adoption of diversified farming systems	23
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	22
How have smallholder farmers used digital extension tools? Developer and user voices from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia	22
The role of trade in pacific food security and nutrition	22
The role of public-private partnerships in improving global food security	22
Disability inclusion: A missing ingredient for food system equity	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
Current state of nutrition in West Africa and projections to 2030	21
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	21
Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex	20
How sustainable is sustainable intensification? Assessing yield gaps at field and farm level across the globe	19

Change in dietary pattern of Agri commodities in the past six decades: Time-varying VAR approach	19
How to swarm? Organizing for sustainable and equitable food systems transformation in a time of crisis	19