OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Outlook on Agriculture is 7. 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
Changing gender role declines maize yield, but remittances offset: Findings from migrant households in the central Himalayas, Nepal	26
Progress Towards Perennial Grains for Prairies and Plains	26
Soil biodiversity and nature-mimicry in agriculture; the power of metaphor?	26
Local business capacity to scale new hybrid maize seeds: Insights from a decade of tracking sales in Mexico	24
Digital tool innovations for smallholder inclusion	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
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	16
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	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
Our morality tells us what to eat – A systematic review on attitudes towards genetically modified foods	12
Regenerative agriculture as a biomimetic technology	12
Native grasses’ potential of providing ecological weed suppression in rangeland and natural areas: A scoping review	12
Editorial: Why agroecology?	11
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

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?	9
Adoption and abandonment of hybrid rice technology: The case of Bangladesh	9
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
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
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
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
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