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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring climate change adaptation strategies in maize (Zea mays) postharvest management practices among smallholder farmers	42
Farm size and productivity relationship among the farming communities in India	39
Current agricultural diversification strategies are already agroecological	24
Banana seed exchange networks in Burundi – Linking formal and informal systems	22
Farmers’ cooperatives in Southwest China: Beyond the dichotomies of failure/success and (in) authenticity?	22
Perils of production with perennial polycultures	22
Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	22
Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics	20
Tailoring rice varieties to consumer preferences induced by cultural and colonial heritage: Lessons from New Rice for Africa (NERICA) in The Gambia	20
Evaluating quality of science in CGIAR research programs: Use of bibliometrics	20
Spatial and economic dynamics of bean crops in an important production hub in Brazil	19
High-yielding seeds in unyielding environments: Examining the learning process of maize and bean producers in eastern and midwestern Uganda	16
Editorial introduction: Design issues and practical questions for demand-oriented seed systems	15
The key to the development of agricultural cooperatives in Romania from the perspective of those who run them	15
Yam seed system characteristics in Nigeria: Local practices, preferences, and the implications for seed system interventions	14
Gendered trait prioritization and motivations for crop varietal choice among smallholder farmers: The case of sweetpotato in Uganda	14
A mixed-methods approach to examine farmers’ willingness to adopt protein crops	13
Driving environmental sustainability in the EU specialized milk farms: Strategic CO2 emission reductions for a greener future	12
Perceptions of an ageing agricultural workforce and farmers’ productivity strategies: Evidence from Prachinburi Province, Thailand	11
Skilling and social reproduction	11
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	11
Farms worldwide: 2020 and 2030 outlook	11
Unfolding consumer purchase intentions toward genetically modified rice with nutritional benefits in Bangladesh	10
Who does what and why? Intra-household roles and explanatory models for sourcing soybean seed from the formal sector in Malawi	9
Strategizing sustainable food security in Saudi Arabia: A policy and scenario approach to agricultural resilience	9

Does the accessibility of a farmer predict the delivery of extension services? Evidence from Rwanda	9
Economic evaluation of increased nitrogen fertiliser prices on risk-efficient fertiliser applications	9
Changing gender role declines maize yield, but remittances offset: Findings from migrant households in the central Himalayas, Nepal	9
Livestock solutions to regenerate soils and landscapes for sustainable agri-food systems transformation in Africa	8
Spatial changes to climatic suitability and availability of agropastoral farming systems across Kenya (1980–2020)	8
Support for “we” visions and for broadening the scope in the debate on alternative forms of agriculture	8
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures	8
Gender and access to complex and gender-biased agricultural technology information and knowledge: Evidence from smart-valleys in West Africa	8
Does the climate-smart village extension model enhance farmer empowerment?	8
A systematic review on sustainable agricultural practices among oil palm farmers	8
Soil biodiversity and nature-mimicry in agriculture; the power of metaphor?	8
Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis	7
Breaking barriers to adoption: A multi-stakeholder platform approach to promoting improved common bean varieties among farmers in Malawi	7
Regenerative agriculture: A paradigm shift for food production in South Africa	7
Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers	7
Progress Towards Perennial Grains for Prairies and Plains	7
Agronomy and (in)equity: Lead, engage or ignore?	7
Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK	6
Multiplier effects of some complementary agricultural practices: Evidence from rice in Ecuador	6
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	6
Technology, infrastructure and enterprise trade-off: Strengthening smallholder farming systems in Tamil Nadu State of India for sustainable income and food security	6
Because error has a price: A systematic review of the applications of DNA fingerprinting for crop varietal identification	6
The global rice agriculture towards 2050: An inter-continental perspective	6
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	5
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	5
An innovation systems approach to understanding forage adoption intensity in the dairy systems of Kenya and Ethiopia	5
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	5
UK agriculture at a crossroads	5
RETRACTED: Addressing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities of automation and robotics technologies adoption in agriculture: The case of Ontario, Canada	5
The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Revisiting strategies to incorporate gender-responsiveness into maize breeding in southern Africa	4
Restoring social and ecological relationships in the agroecosystems of Canada's prairie region	4
Food security, food insecurity, and Canada’s national food policy: Meaning, measures, and assessment	4
Introducing an ecologically-based pest management approach in Cambodia through adaptive learning networks	3
Corrigendum to “Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches”	3
Good fences make good neighbors? Exploring potential transformative impacts of local governance towards livestock fence-in rights in Malawi	3
Adoption; a relevant concept for agricultural land management in the 21 century?	3
Research and development for sorghum and millets in Sub-Saharan Africa: What have we learned?	3
Legume integration for biological control deserves a firmer scientific base	3
Herbicides and Zero Tillage in South Asia: Are we creating a gendered problem?	3
Are positive farmers more productive? Investigating the relationship between positivity ratio and agricultural productivity	3
Estimating farmers’ internal value of crop residues in smallholder crop-livestock systems: A South Asia case study	3
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	3
Basket of options: Unpacking the concept	3
Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements: Legume crops as a case study	3
A systematic review on the factors governing precision agriculture adoption among small-scale farmers	3
Gender dynamics in the biofortified bean value chain in Burundi	3
The negative impacts of the restructuring of the abattoir industry in Great Britain on small abattoirs	2
Why farmers use so many different maize varieties in West Kenya	2
Future agricultures: The promise and pitfalls of a (re)turn to nature	2

Monodominant natural vegetation provides models for nature-based cereal production	2
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	2
High-density grazing in southern Africa: Inspiration by nature leads to conservation?	2
Agroecology: Can it inform disaster risk management in fragile settings?	2
Smallholder farmers’ perception and adoption of digital agricultural technologies: An empirical evidence from Vietnam	2
From classroom to field: Assessing the impact of gender-targeted farmer training on knowledge, attitudes and practices in Northern Laos	2
The role of forest extraction in the livelihood strategies of Indonesian smallholder cattle farmers	2
Copy competitively-tested adaptations of wild species, maybe, but not natural ecosystems tested only by persistence	2