OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Outlook on Agriculture is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	96
Strengthening grain legume production in Germany: What drives farmers to join a producer organisation?	59
Digital tool innovations for smallholder inclusion	40
From classroom to field: Assessing the impact of gender-targeted farmer training on knowledge, attitudes and practices in Northern Laos	31
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	25
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	19
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	19
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	19
Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements: Legume crops as a case study	18
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	16
Labor constraints and technological change: How labor shortages accelerate the adoption of labor-saving technologies among smallholder farmers	16
Our morality tells us what to eat – A systematic review on attitudes towards genetically modified foods	14
What does CGIAR do to address climate change? Perspectives from a decade of science on climate change adaptation and mitigation	14
Agroecology: Searching in the wrong place	13
Shaping India's climate future: A perspective on harnessing carbon credits from agriculture	13
Native grasses’ potential of providing ecological weed suppression in rangeland and natural areas: A scoping review	13
Agricultural skill development in neoliberal contexts: Upskilling, deskilling, or skills’ subsumption?	12
From breeding trait to farm gate: Bean seed quality in Uganda	12
Understanding communication and stakeholder learning process affecting sustainability in multi-stakeholder platforms: The case of a Learning Alliance in Vietnam	12
Participatory research at scale: A comparative analysis of four approaches to large-scale agricultural technology testing with farmers	12
Adoption and abandonment of hybrid rice technology: The case of Bangladesh	11
Farewell to Dr James (Jim) Sumberg	10
Editorial: Why agroecology?	9
The impact of policies on the diffusion of agricultural innovations: Systematic review on evaluation approaches	9
Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis	9

Are common bean traders efficient? An empirical evidence from Malawi	9
Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	8
Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers	8
Rethinking rigor, knowledge hierarchies, and deskilled data collectors: An agenda for skilling research in global development	8
Gendered trait prioritization and motivations for crop varietal choice among smallholder farmers: The case of sweetpotato in Uganda	8
Designing with farmers: Inclusive lessons from developing a phygital (in-person + mobile) extension platform in Zambia	8
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures	8
Varieties on paper: Are varieties in national catalogs available to African farmers?	8
Options for a just transition for livestock under climate change	8
Less is more? The adoption and economic impact of agrochemical control on grain production in the North China Plain	8
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	8
A systematic review of multi-actor sociocultural perceptions of regenerative agriculture	7
Corrigendum to “Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches”	7
Because error has a price: A systematic review of the applications of DNA fingerprinting for crop varietal identification	7
An innovation systems approach to understanding forage adoption intensity in the dairy systems of Kenya and Ethiopia	6
Quantitative and qualitative food losses of African indigenous vegetables along the value chain: A systematic literature review	6
Smallholder farmers’ perception and adoption of digital agricultural technologies: An empirical evidence from Vietnam	6
Motivations behind regenerative agriculture: A systematic literature review	6
The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Land per capita, year-to-year variability and uncertainty of return on investment affect household income from crop production: Evidence from India	6
Farmers’ perspectives on adopting hybrid maize over alternative crops in Bangladesh	5
Evolving meanings of ‘principles’ in agronomic discourse	5
Digitalization and skills in agriculture	5
Motivation and opportunity may drive Tunisian farmers to reduce chemical pesticides in horticulture	5
Circular agriculture in Kenya: Livestock diets depend on food-competing feed ingredients and on external feed inputs	5
Farmers’ cooperatives in Southwest China: Beyond the dichotomies of failure/success and (in) authenticity?	5
“From farm to nowhere: The broken promise of Organic Agriculture for Philippine smallholders”	5
Proper efficacy testing should be mandatory for registration of biostimulants	5
From collection to control: Data governance, digital technologies, and the politics of inclusion in the digitalisation of smallholder agriculture	4
Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK	4
UK agriculture at a crossroads	4
Collaboration networks in agricultural research in Uruguay: An exploration based on social network analysis	4
Food security, food insecurity, and Canada’s national food policy: Meaning, measures, and assessment	4
Ethical crossroads in agricultural data: Perspectives on trust, equity and sustainability	4
RETRACTED: Addressing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities of automation and robotics technologies adoption in agriculture: The case of Ontario, Canada	4
Slow varietal turnover or overlooked dynamics at the household level? A study of smallholder maize farmers in Kenya	4
Gendered pathways to good agricultural practices compliance: Evidence from smallholder farming households	4
A mixed-methods approach to examine farmers’ willingness to adopt protein crops	4
Support for “we” visions and for broadening the scope in the debate on alternative forms of agriculture	4
Gender dynamics in the biofortified bean value chain in Burundi	4
Impact of agricultural extension services on rice productivity and profitability in Bangladesh	3
Assessing impacts of COVID-19 and their responses among smallholder farmers in Brazil, Madagascar and Tanzania	3
Is agroecology a solution or an agenda?	3
Beef cattle production systems and constraints among subsistence farmers across the Fijian windward–leeward divide	3
Intellectual property rights and plants made by new genomic techniques: Access to technology and gene-edited traits in plant breeding	3
Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration – Mango production in Malawi as a test case	3
Problems in the linkage among agricultural research, rural extension and farmers: An international literature review	3
How are Europe's small and family farmers doing? A literature review of economic and social factors	3
What motivates young people in fragile contexts to participate in agriculture and food security programs? Insights from aspirations in Northern Benin	3
Does rural-to-urban migration reduce grain production? evidence from China	3

Has process hijacked purpose? Outlook on food systems transformation in the global climate change processes	2
From free to fee: Smallholders’ willingness to pay for agricultural extension and advisory services in northern Ghana	2
Maize seed aid and seed systems development: Opportunities for synergies in Uganda	2
Transforming African agriculture, water, and climate resilience - the vision behind establishing UM6P's College of Agricultural and Environmental Science	2
Agricultural innovation targeting approaches: Review and evidence from Bangladesh	2
Multiplier effects of some complementary agricultural practices: Evidence from rice in Ecuador	2
Transforming agriculture and the 70% myths	2
Driving environmental sustainability in the EU specialized milk farms: Strategic CO2 emission reductions for a greener future	2
Skill and deskilling in an uncertain agricultural world: Introduction to the special issue	2
Introducing an ecologically-based pest management approach in Cambodia through adaptive learning networks	2
Gender and access to complex and gender-biased agricultural technology information and knowledge: Evidence from smart-valleys in West Africa	2
Livestock solutions to regenerate soils and landscapes for sustainable agri-food systems transformation in Africa	2
Carbon farming in Europe, policies of symbolic reassurance	2
Land and technology requirements for economically prosperous smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania	2
Strengthening emergency pest prevention, preparedness and response: The potential role of the private sector	2
The garden as resistance: Horticultural skill and human potential behind bars	2
Are positive farmers more productive? Investigating the relationship between positivity ratio and agricultural productivity	2
Why digital dairy innovation fails pasture-based systems and how to fix it: A startup-side perspective	2
Skill talk: The struggle over agricultural decision-making	2