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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	93
Strengthening grain legume production in Germany: What drives farmers to join a producer organisation?	54
Digital tool innovations for smallholder inclusion	40
Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements: Legume crops as a case study	29
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	23
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	20
From classroom to field: Assessing the impact of gender-targeted farmer training on knowledge, attitudes and practices in Northern Laos	19
Labor constraints and technological change: How labor shortages accelerate the adoption of labor-saving technologies among smallholder farmers	18
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	17
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	16
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	15
Agroecology: Searching in the wrong place	14
Native grasses’ potential of providing ecological weed suppression in rangeland and natural areas: A scoping review	13
What does CGIAR do to address climate change? Perspectives from a decade of science on climate change adaptation and mitigation	13
Participatory research at scale: A comparative analysis of four approaches to large-scale agricultural technology testing with farmers	12
Are common bean traders efficient? An empirical evidence from Malawi	12
Shaping India's climate future: A perspective on harnessing carbon credits from agriculture	12
From breeding trait to farm gate: Bean seed quality in Uganda	12
Our morality tells us what to eat – A systematic review on attitudes towards genetically modified foods	12
Farewell to Dr James (Jim) Sumberg	11
Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis	11
Understanding communication and stakeholder learning process affecting sustainability in multi-stakeholder platforms: The case of a Learning Alliance in Vietnam	11
Editorial: Why agroecology?	11
The impact of policies on the diffusion of agricultural innovations: Systematic review on evaluation approaches	10
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures	8

Banana seed exchange networks in Burundi – Linking formal and informal systems	8
Agricultural skill development in neoliberal contexts: Upskilling, deskilling, or skills’ subsumption?	8
Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	8
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	8
Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers	8
Adoption and abandonment of hybrid rice technology: The case of Bangladesh	8
Varieties on paper: Are varieties in national catalogs available to African farmers?	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
Smallholder farmers’ perception and adoption of digital agricultural technologies: An empirical evidence from Vietnam	7
Designing with farmers: Inclusive lessons from developing a phygital (in-person + mobile) extension platform in Zambia	7
An innovation systems approach to understanding forage adoption intensity in the dairy systems of Kenya and Ethiopia	7
Options for a just transition for livestock under climate change	7
Corrigendum to “Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches”	7
Less is more? The adoption and economic impact of agrochemical control on grain production in the North China Plain	7
Quantitative and qualitative food losses of African indigenous vegetables along the value chain: 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
Digitalization and skills in agriculture	6
Because error has a price: A systematic review of the applications of DNA fingerprinting for crop varietal identification	6
Land per capita, year-to-year variability and uncertainty of return on investment affect household income from crop production: Evidence from India	6
Evolving meanings of ‘principles’ in agronomic discourse	5
Motivations behind regenerative agriculture: A systematic literature review	5
Farmers’ perspectives on adopting hybrid maize over alternative crops in Bangladesh	5
Proper efficacy testing should be mandatory for registration of biostimulants	5
Motivation and opportunity may drive Tunisian farmers to reduce chemical pesticides in horticulture	4
Ethical crossroads in agricultural data: Perspectives on trust, equity and sustainability	4
A mixed-methods approach to examine farmers’ willingness to adopt protein crops	4
UK agriculture at a crossroads	4
“From farm to nowhere: The broken promise of Organic Agriculture for Philippine smallholders”	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
Food security, food insecurity, and Canada’s national food policy: Meaning, measures, and assessment	4
Circular agriculture in Kenya: Livestock diets depend on food-competing feed ingredients and on external feed inputs	4
From collection to control: Data governance, digital technologies, and the politics of inclusion in the digitalisation of smallholder agriculture	4
RETRACTED: Addressing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities of automation and robotics technologies adoption in agriculture: The case of Ontario, Canada	4
Support for “we” visions and for broadening the scope in the debate on alternative forms of agriculture	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
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
Strengthening emergency pest prevention, preparedness and response: The potential role of the private sector	3
Collaboration networks in agricultural research in Uruguay: An exploration based on social network analysis	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
Is agroecology a solution or an agenda?	3
How are Europe's small and family farmers doing? A literature review of economic and social factors	3
Gender dynamics in the biofortified bean value chain in Burundi	3
Does rural-to-urban migration reduce grain production? evidence from China	3
Problems in the linkage among agricultural research, rural extension and farmers: An international literature review	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
Livestock solutions to regenerate soils and landscapes for sustainable agri-food systems transformation in Africa	2
Beyond yields: Smallholders’ realities matter for biodiversity	2
National breeding programs and variety release processes: A systematic review of how the interactions shape diversity and adoption of dryland legumes and cereals in Africa	2
Transforming African agriculture, water, and climate resilience - the vision behind establishing UM6P's College of Agricultural and Environmental Science	2
Multiplier effects of some complementary agricultural practices: Evidence from rice in Ecuador	2
Carbon farming in Europe, policies of symbolic reassurance	2
Gender and access to complex and gender-biased agricultural technology information and knowledge: Evidence from smart-valleys in West Africa	2
From free to fee: Smallholders’ willingness to pay for agricultural extension and advisory services in northern Ghana	2
Youth engagement in livestock production and marketing in East Africa	2
Skill talk: The struggle over agricultural decision-making	2
Driving environmental sustainability in the EU specialized milk farms: Strategic CO2 emission reductions for a greener future	2
Introducing an ecologically-based pest management approach in Cambodia through adaptive learning networks	2
Transforming agriculture and the 70% myths	2
Has process hijacked purpose? Outlook on food systems transformation in the global climate change processes	2
Agricultural innovation targeting approaches: Review and evidence from Bangladesh	2
The role of small abattoirs in the delivery of the UK's new agricultural policy objectives	2
Are positive farmers more productive? Investigating the relationship between positivity ratio and agricultural productivity	2
Skill and deskilling in an uncertain agricultural world: Introduction to the special issue	2
The garden as resistance: Horticultural skill and human potential behind bars	2