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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	206
Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana	172
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	141
Is land nationalization more conducive to sustainable development of cultivated land and food security than land privatization in post-socialist Central Asia?	131
Maximizing value of genetic sequence data requires an enabling environment and urgency	118
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	107
High frequency phone surveys for tracking food prices: Evidence from the KasuwaGo project	102
An analysis of the transformative potential of major food system report recommendations	102
Community-led food resilience:A decolonizing autographic learning from an Inuit community	100
Towards improving food safety in Cambodia: Current status and emerging opportunities	98
Helping feed the world with rice innovations: CGIAR research adoption and socioeconomic impact on farmers	92
Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise	73
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	70
Organic farming expansion and food security: A review of foresight modeling studies	68
Unlocking the potential of aquatic foods in global food security and nutrition: A missing piece under the lens of seafood liking index	60
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	56
Do international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transformation? A textual analysis of design documents	50
What is wrong with biofortification	48
Climate change and sex-specific labor intensity: An empirical analysis in Africa	48
Continuity and change in the contemporary Pacific food system	45
Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture	45
Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice	44
Price shocks and associated policy responses stemming from the Russia-Ukraine War and other global crises: Evidence from six African countries	44
Rising land commodification in sub-Saharan Africa: Reconciling the diverse narratives	43
Does institutional quality affect the impact of public agricultural spending on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?	43

Revisiting the drought-food insecurity nexus: a social-ecological systems perspective	41
Potential and limitations of machine learning modeling for forecasting Acute Food Insecurity	41
Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review	41
Quantifying food consumption supply risk: An analysis across countries and agricultural products	38
Social-ecological traps link food systems to nutritional outcomes	38
Consumer pesticide concerns and the choice of fruit and vegetable markets in five low- and middle-income countries	36
Rural-urban transition and food security in India	36
Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil	35
How do food companies try to reach lower-income consumers, and do they succeed? Insights from a systematic review	35
Maize yield forecasts for Sub-Saharan Africa using Earth Observation data and machine learning	35
Guiding sector transformation: Power strategies of a non-state actor in the centrally planned seed sector of Ethiopia	34
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system	34
Varietal turn-over and their effect on yield and food security – Evidence from 20 years of household surveys in Kenya	34
Natural resources management for resilient inclusive rural transformation	33
Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?	33
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	32
Urbanization shapes West African diets throughout the rural-urban continuum	32
A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food	31
Pollinator-dependent crops in Brazil yield nearly half of nutrients for humans and livestock feed	31
Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	30
Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts	30
The myth of the market queens: A case study of women and power in Ghanaian markets	29
Differences in the early impact of COVID-19 on food security and livelihoods in rural and urban areas in the Asia Pacific Region	29
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
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship	28
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis	27
Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A comparison across African countries	27
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals	26
Levelling the farm fields: A cross-country study of the determinants of gender-based yield gaps	26
Transforming food systems: Multi-stakeholder platforms driven by consumer concerns and public demands	26
Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability	26
Putting food systems thinking into practice: Integrating agricultural sectors into a multi-level analytical framework	26
Are AgriFoodTech start-ups the new drivers of food systems transformation? An overview of the state of the art and a research agenda	26
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
COVID-19 mobility restrictions and stay-at-home behaviour in 2020 were associated with higher retail food prices worldwide	24
The role of trade in pacific food security and nutrition	24
How have smallholder farmers used digital extension tools? Developer and user voices from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia	24
The role of public-private partnerships in improving global food security	24
It's time to consider global catastrophic food failures	23
Farming for the future: Understanding factors enabling the adoption of diversified farming systems	22
Five keys to prevention and control of mycotoxins in grains: A proposal	22
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	22
Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens	21
New insights into the measurement of household well-being for vulnerable economies: Evidence from Pakistan's labor and diet data	21
Capital constraints or biased norms? Tracing the root of gendered agricultural productivity in rural China	21
Disability inclusion: A missing ingredient for food system equity	21

Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex	19
Current state of nutrition in West Africa and projections to 2030	19
Grain legume production in Europe for food, feed and meat-substitution	19
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	19
How to swarm? Organizing for sustainable and equitable food systems transformation in a time of crisis	18
What do the 235 estimates from the literature tell us about the impact of weather on agricultural and food trade flows?	18
How sustainable is sustainable intensification? Assessing yield gaps at field and farm level across the globe	18
Unseen food: The importance of extra-market small farm's production for rural households in Europe	18
Change in dietary pattern of Agri commodities in the past six decades: Time-varying VAR approach	18
Perspective: The gap between intent and climate action in agriculture	18