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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics	52
Perils of production with perennial polycultures	52
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	31
Who does what and why? Intra-household roles and explanatory models for sourcing soybean seed from the formal sector in Malawi	29
Progress Towards Perennial Grains for Prairies and Plains	26
Soil biodiversity and nature-mimicry in agriculture; the power of metaphor?	26
Changing gender role declines maize yield, but remittances offset: Findings from migrant households in the central Himalayas, Nepal	26
Digital tool innovations for smallholder inclusion	24
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	24
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	22
Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements: Legume crops as a case study	19
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	18
From classroom to field: Assessing the impact of gender-targeted farmer training on knowledge, attitudes and practices in Northern Laos	17
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	16
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	16
What does CGIAR do to address climate change? Perspectives from a decade of science on climate change adaptation and mitigation	15
Agroecology: Searching in the wrong place	14
Monodominant natural vegetation provides models for nature-based cereal production	13
Regenerative agriculture as a biomimetic technology	12
Native grasses’ potential of providing ecological weed suppression in rangeland and natural areas: A scoping review	12
Our morality tells us what to eat – A systematic review on attitudes towards genetically modified foods	12
Participatory research at scale: A comparative analysis of four approaches to large-scale agricultural technology testing with farmers	11
The use of epic narratives in promoting ‘natural agriculture’	11
Shaping India's climate future: A perspective on harnessing carbon credits from agriculture	11
Editorial: Why agroecology?	11

Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis	10
Understanding communication and stakeholder learning process affecting sustainability in multi-stakeholder platforms: The case of a Learning Alliance in Vietnam	9
The impact of policies on the diffusion of agricultural innovations: Systematic review on evaluation approaches	9
Agricultural skill development in neoliberal contexts: Upskilling, deskilling, or skills’ subsumption?	9
Adoption and abandonment of hybrid rice technology: The case of Bangladesh	9
Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers	8
Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	8
Are common bean traders efficient? An empirical evidence from Malawi	8
Does the accessibility of a farmer predict the delivery of extension services? Evidence from Rwanda	8
Gendered trait prioritization and motivations for crop varietal choice among smallholder farmers: The case of sweetpotato in Uganda	8
Banana seed exchange networks in Burundi – Linking formal and informal systems	8
Productivity and constraints of small-scale crop farming in the summer rainfall region of South Africa	8
Rethinking rigor, knowledge hierarchies, and deskilled data collectors: An agenda for skilling research in global development	7
Smallholder farmers’ perception and adoption of digital agricultural technologies: An empirical evidence from Vietnam	7
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	7
An innovation systems approach to understanding forage adoption intensity in the dairy systems of Kenya and Ethiopia	7
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures	7
Designing with farmers: Inclusive lessons from developing a phygital (in-person + mobile) extension platform in Zambia	7
Technology, infrastructure and enterprise trade-off: Strengthening smallholder farming systems in Tamil Nadu State of India for sustainable income and food security	7
The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Because error has a price: A systematic review of the applications of DNA fingerprinting for crop varietal identification	6
Corrigendum to “Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches”	6
Contextualizing private sector-based seed system development: The case of sorghum in Eastern Africa	5
Copy competitively-tested adaptations of wild species, maybe, but not natural ecosystems tested only by persistence	5
Digitalization and skills in agriculture	5
Technology, rurality and gender… false friends, but not enemies!	5
Quantitative and qualitative food losses of African indigenous vegetables along the value chain: A systematic literature review	5
Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK	4
Farmers’ cooperatives in Southwest China: Beyond the dichotomies of failure/success and (in) authenticity?	4
Gender dynamics in the biofortified bean value chain in Burundi	4
Motivation and opportunity may drive Tunisian farmers to reduce chemical pesticides in horticulture	4
Evolving meanings of ‘principles’ in agronomic discourse	4
Support for “we” visions and for broadening the scope in the debate on alternative forms of agriculture	4
A mixed-methods approach to examine farmers’ willingness to adopt protein crops	4
Food security, food insecurity, and Canada’s national food policy: Meaning, measures, and assessment	3
Collaboration networks in agricultural research in Uruguay: An exploration based on social network analysis	3
Problems in the linkage among agricultural research, rural extension and farmers: An international literature review	3
Land and technology requirements for economically prosperous smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania	3
Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic rice supply and food security in Southeast Asia	3
Assessing impacts of COVID-19 and their responses among smallholder farmers in Brazil, Madagascar and Tanzania	3
RETRACTED: Addressing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities of automation and robotics technologies adoption in agriculture: The case of Ontario, Canada	3
Intellectual property rights and plants made by new genomic techniques: Access to technology and gene-edited traits in plant breeding	3
Impact of agricultural extension services on rice productivity and profitability in Bangladesh	3
Farm supply and grain marketing businesses: A mixed methods investigation of past and intended future strategies	3
Options for diversifying agricultural systems to reduce pesticide use: Can we learn from nature?	3
UK agriculture at a crossroads	3
Beef cattle production systems and constraints among subsistence farmers across the Fijian windward–leeward divide	3
Future agricultures: The promise and pitfalls of a (re)turn to nature	3
Is agroecology a solution or an agenda?	3
Strengthening emergency pest prevention, preparedness and response: The potential role of the private sector	3

Maize seed aid and seed systems development: Opportunities for synergies in Uganda	3
Editorial introduction: Design issues and practical questions for demand-oriented seed systems	2
Multiplier effects of some complementary agricultural practices: Evidence from rice in Ecuador	2
The global rice agriculture towards 2050: An inter-continental perspective	2
Transforming African agriculture, water, and climate resilience - the vision behind establishing UM6P's College of Agricultural and Environmental Science	2
Driving environmental sustainability in the EU specialized milk farms: Strategic CO2 emission reductions for a greener future	2
Transforming agriculture and the 70% myths	2
Skill and deskilling in an uncertain agricultural world: Introduction to the special issue	2
Gender and access to complex and gender-biased agricultural technology information and knowledge: Evidence from smart-valleys in West Africa	2
High-yielding seeds in unyielding environments: Examining the learning process of maize and bean producers in eastern and midwestern Uganda	2
Restoring social and ecological relationships in the agroecosystems of Canada's prairie region	2
Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration – Mango production in Malawi as a test case	2
Rural development and transformation of the rice sector in Myanmar: Introduction of best management practices for sustainable rice agriculture	2
Has process hijacked purpose? Outlook on food systems transformation in the global climate change processes	2
Unplanned but well prepared: A reinterpreted success story of international agricultural research, and its implications	2
Skill talk: The struggle over agricultural decision-making	2
Livestock solutions to regenerate soils and landscapes for sustainable agri-food systems transformation in Africa	2
What motivates young people in fragile contexts to participate in agriculture and food security programs? Insights from aspirations in Northern Benin	2
The garden as resistance: Horticultural skill and human potential behind bars	2