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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Perils of production with perennial polycultures	66
Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics	66
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	41
Digital tool innovations for smallholder inclusion	33
Changing gender role declines maize yield, but remittances offset: Findings from migrant households in the central Himalayas, Nepal	32
Strengthening grain legume production in Germany: What drives farmers to join a producer organisation?	30
Soil biodiversity and nature-mimicry in agriculture; the power of metaphor?	30
Progress Towards Perennial Grains for Prairies and Plains	29
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	27
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	23
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	23
From classroom to field: Assessing the impact of gender-targeted farmer training on knowledge, attitudes and practices in Northern Laos	23
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
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	17
Agroecology: Searching in the wrong place	17
Monodominant natural vegetation provides models for nature-based cereal production	16
Our morality tells us what to eat – A systematic review on attitudes towards genetically modified foods	15
What does CGIAR do to address climate change? Perspectives from a decade of science on climate change adaptation and mitigation	14
Regenerative agriculture as a biomimetic technology	13
Participatory research at scale: A comparative analysis of four approaches to large-scale agricultural technology testing with farmers	13
Native grasses’ potential of providing ecological weed suppression in rangeland and natural areas: A scoping review	13
Shaping India's climate future: A perspective on harnessing carbon credits from agriculture	12
The use of epic narratives in promoting ‘natural agriculture’	12
Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis	12

Adoption and abandonment of hybrid rice technology: The case of Bangladesh	11
Agricultural skill development in neoliberal contexts: Upskilling, deskilling, or skills’ subsumption?	11
Understanding communication and stakeholder learning process affecting sustainability in multi-stakeholder platforms: The case of a Learning Alliance in Vietnam	11
The impact of policies on the diffusion of agricultural innovations: Systematic review on evaluation approaches	10
Productivity and constraints of small-scale crop farming in the summer rainfall region of South Africa	10
Are common bean traders efficient? An empirical evidence from Malawi	10
Gendered trait prioritization and motivations for crop varietal choice among smallholder farmers: The case of sweetpotato in Uganda	9
Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	9
Editorial: Why agroecology?	9
Banana seed exchange networks in Burundi – Linking formal and informal systems	9
Technology, infrastructure and enterprise trade-off: Strengthening smallholder farming systems in Tamil Nadu State of India for sustainable income and food security	8
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures	8
Does the accessibility of a farmer predict the delivery of extension services? Evidence from Rwanda	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	7
Options for a just transition for livestock under climate change	7
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	7
Technology, rurality and gender… false friends, but not enemies!	6
The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Corrigendum to “Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches”	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
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
Copy competitively-tested adaptations of wild species, maybe, but not natural ecosystems tested only by persistence	6
Because error has a price: A systematic review of the applications of DNA fingerprinting for crop varietal identification	6
Circular agriculture in Kenya: Livestock diets depend on food-competing feed ingredients and on external feed inputs	5
Support for “we” visions and for broadening the scope in the debate on alternative forms of agriculture	5
Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK	5
Contextualizing private sector-based seed system development: The case of sorghum in Eastern Africa	5
Motivation and opportunity may drive Tunisian farmers to reduce chemical pesticides in horticulture	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
Digitalization and skills in agriculture	5
Evolving meanings of ‘principles’ in agronomic discourse	5
A mixed-methods approach to examine farmers’ willingness to adopt protein crops	5
Problems in the linkage among agricultural research, rural extension and farmers: An international literature review	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
Assessing impacts of COVID-19 and their responses among smallholder farmers in Brazil, Madagascar and Tanzania	4
RETRACTED: Addressing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities of automation and robotics technologies adoption in agriculture: The case of Ontario, Canada	4
Gender dynamics in the biofortified bean value chain in Burundi	4
Future agricultures: The promise and pitfalls of a (re)turn to nature	4
UK agriculture at a crossroads	4
Options for diversifying agricultural systems to reduce pesticide use: Can we learn from nature?	3
Beef cattle production systems and constraints among subsistence farmers across the Fijian windward–leeward divide	3
What motivates young people in fragile contexts to participate in agriculture and food security programs? Insights from aspirations in Northern Benin	3
Has process hijacked purpose? Outlook on food systems transformation in the global climate change processes	3
The garden as resistance: Horticultural skill and human potential behind bars	3
High-yielding seeds in unyielding environments: Examining the learning process of maize and bean producers in eastern and midwestern Uganda	3

Transforming African agriculture, water, and climate resilience - the vision behind establishing UM6P's College of Agricultural and Environmental Science	3
Strengthening emergency pest prevention, preparedness and response: The potential role of the private sector	3
Intellectual property rights and plants made by new genomic techniques: Access to technology and gene-edited traits in plant breeding	3
Land and technology requirements for economically prosperous smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania	3
Transforming agriculture and the 70% myths	3
Rural development and transformation of the rice sector in Myanmar: Introduction of best management practices for sustainable rice agriculture	3
Editorial introduction: Design issues and practical questions for demand-oriented seed systems	3
Farm supply and grain marketing businesses: A mixed methods investigation of past and intended future strategies	3
Impact of agricultural extension services on rice productivity and profitability in Bangladesh	3
Maize seed aid and seed systems development: Opportunities for synergies in Uganda	3
Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration – Mango production in Malawi as a test case	3
Skill and deskilling in an uncertain agricultural world: Introduction to the special issue	3
Is agroecology a solution or an agenda?	3
Driving environmental sustainability in the EU specialized milk farms: Strategic CO2 emission reductions for a greener future	3