OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Outlook on Agriculture is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	73
Perils of production with perennial polycultures	71
Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics	46
Digital tool innovations for smallholder inclusion	36
Strengthening grain legume production in Germany: What drives farmers to join a producer organisation?	34
Soil biodiversity and nature-mimicry in agriculture; the power of metaphor?	29
Changing gender role declines maize yield, but remittances offset: Findings from migrant households in the central Himalayas, Nepal	24
Progress Towards Perennial Grains for Prairies and Plains	23
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	20
Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements: Legume crops as a case study	19
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	19
Labor constraints and technological change: How labor shortages accelerate the adoption of labor-saving technologies among smallholder farmers	17
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	16
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	15
From classroom to field: Assessing the impact of gender-targeted farmer training on knowledge, attitudes and practices in Northern Laos	14
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	14
Agroecology: Searching in the wrong place	14
Monodominant natural vegetation provides models for nature-based cereal production	13
What does CGIAR do to address climate change? Perspectives from a decade of science on climate change adaptation and mitigation	13
Regenerative agriculture as a biomimetic technology	12
Our morality tells us what to eat – A systematic review on attitudes towards genetically modified foods	11
Participatory research at scale: A comparative analysis of four approaches to large-scale agricultural technology testing with farmers	11
Native grasses’ potential of providing ecological weed suppression in rangeland and natural areas: A scoping review	11
The use of epic narratives in promoting ‘natural agriculture’	11
Shaping India's climate future: A perspective on harnessing carbon credits from agriculture	10

Adoption and abandonment of hybrid rice technology: The case of Bangladesh	10
Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis	10
Agricultural skill development in neoliberal contexts: Upskilling, deskilling, or skills’ subsumption?	10
Understanding communication and stakeholder learning process affecting sustainability in multi-stakeholder platforms: The case of a Learning Alliance in Vietnam	9
Productivity and constraints of small-scale crop farming in the summer rainfall region of South Africa	8
Are common bean traders efficient? An empirical evidence from Malawi	8
Editorial: Why agroecology?	8
The impact of policies on the diffusion of agricultural innovations: Systematic review on evaluation approaches	8
Gendered trait prioritization and motivations for crop varietal choice among smallholder farmers: The case of sweetpotato in Uganda	8
Farewell to Dr James (Jim) Sumberg	8
Banana seed exchange networks in Burundi – Linking formal and informal systems	7
Rethinking rigor, knowledge hierarchies, and deskilled data collectors: An agenda for skilling research in global development	7
Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	7
Technology, infrastructure and enterprise trade-off: Strengthening smallholder farming systems in Tamil Nadu State of India for sustainable income and food security	7
Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers	7
Options for a just transition for livestock under climate change	6
Corrigendum to “Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches”	6
Less is more? The adoption and economic impact of agrochemical control on grain production in the North China Plain	6
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	6
The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa	6
An innovation systems approach to understanding forage adoption intensity in the dairy systems of Kenya and Ethiopia	6
Designing with farmers: Inclusive lessons from developing a phygital (in-person + mobile) extension platform in Zambia	6
Smallholder farmers’ perception and adoption of digital agricultural technologies: An empirical evidence from Vietnam	6
Because error has a price: A systematic review of the applications of DNA fingerprinting for crop varietal identification	6
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures	6
Copy competitively-tested adaptations of wild species, maybe, but not natural ecosystems tested only by persistence	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
Motivations behind regenerative agriculture: A systematic literature review	5
Digitalization and skills in agriculture	4
Circular agriculture in Kenya: Livestock diets depend on food-competing feed ingredients and on external feed inputs	4
Evolving meanings of ‘principles’ in agronomic discourse	4
Ethical crossroads in agricultural data: Perspectives on trust, equity and sustainability	4
Motivation and opportunity may drive Tunisian farmers to reduce chemical pesticides in horticulture	4
Farmers’ cooperatives in Southwest China: Beyond the dichotomies of failure/success and (in) authenticity?	4
Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK	4
Gender dynamics in the biofortified bean value chain in Burundi	4
“From farm to nowhere: The broken promise of Organic Agriculture for Philippine smallholders”	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
UK agriculture at a crossroads	4
Options for diversifying agricultural systems to reduce pesticide use: Can we learn from nature?	3
Has process hijacked purpose? Outlook on food systems transformation in the global climate change processes	3
Maize seed aid and seed systems development: Opportunities for synergies in Uganda	3
Intellectual property rights and plants made by new genomic techniques: Access to technology and gene-edited traits in plant breeding	3
Beef cattle production systems and constraints among subsistence farmers across the Fijian windward–leeward divide	3
Food security, food insecurity, and Canada’s national food policy: Meaning, measures, and assessment	3
Land and technology requirements for economically prosperous smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania	3
Rural development and transformation of the rice sector in Myanmar: Introduction of best management practices for sustainable rice agriculture	3
Transforming agriculture and the 70% myths	3

What motivates young people in fragile contexts to participate in agriculture and food security programs? Insights from aspirations in Northern Benin	3
Collaboration networks in agricultural research in Uruguay: An exploration based on social network analysis	3
RETRACTED: Addressing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities of automation and robotics technologies adoption in agriculture: The case of Ontario, Canada	3
Future agricultures: The promise and pitfalls of a (re)turn to nature	3
Is agroecology a solution or an agenda?	3
The garden as resistance: Horticultural skill and human potential behind bars	3
Strengthening emergency pest prevention, preparedness and response: The potential role of the private sector	3
Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration – Mango production in Malawi as a test case	3
Impact of agricultural extension services on rice productivity and profitability in Bangladesh	3
Problems in the linkage among agricultural research, rural extension and farmers: An international literature review	3
Assessing impacts of COVID-19 and their responses among smallholder farmers in Brazil, Madagascar and Tanzania	3