OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Outlook on Agriculture is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Perils of production with perennial polycultures	69
Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics	69
Women in agricultural marketing: A systematic review of motivations, opportunities, and challenges	42
Digital tool innovations for smallholder inclusion	34
Changing gender role declines maize yield, but remittances offset: Findings from migrant households in the central Himalayas, Nepal	34
Soil biodiversity and nature-mimicry in agriculture; the power of metaphor?	27
Strengthening grain legume production in Germany: What drives farmers to join a producer organisation?	23
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	19
From classroom to field: Assessing the impact of gender-targeted farmer training on knowledge, attitudes and practices in Northern Laos	18
Conservation agriculture practices improve crop productivity and farm profitability when adopted by Bangladeshi smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain	17
Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study	17
Farmers’ perception of consumer information and adoption intention towards organic rice farming: Evidence from community enterprise in rural Thailand	16
Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements: Legume crops as a case study	15
Why current agroecology rhetoric stands to protract farmer poverty in the developing world	14
Monodominant natural vegetation provides models for nature-based cereal production	13
Agroecology: Searching in the wrong place	13
Our morality tells us what to eat – A systematic review on attitudes towards genetically modified foods	12
Native grasses’ potential of providing ecological weed suppression in rangeland and natural areas: A scoping review	12
Regenerative agriculture as a biomimetic technology	12
What does CGIAR do to address climate change? Perspectives from a decade of science on climate change adaptation and mitigation	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	10
Agricultural skill development in neoliberal contexts: Upskilling, deskilling, or skills’ subsumption?	10

Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis	10
Adoption and abandonment of hybrid rice technology: The case of Bangladesh	9
Farewell to Dr James (Jim) Sumberg	9
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
Editorial: Why agroecology?	8
Are common bean traders efficient? An empirical evidence from Malawi	8
Gendered trait prioritization and motivations for crop varietal choice among smallholder farmers: The case of sweetpotato in Uganda	8
The impact of policies on the diffusion of agricultural innovations: Systematic review on evaluation approaches	8
Assessing German farmers’ trade-offs between disease resistance and yield in winter wheat varieties	7
Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers	7
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	6
Because error has a price: A systematic review of the applications of DNA fingerprinting for crop varietal identification	6
Corrigendum to “Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches”	6
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures	6
Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China	6
Less is more? The adoption and economic impact of agrochemical control on grain production in the North China Plain	6
Designing with farmers: Inclusive lessons from developing a phygital (in-person + mobile) extension platform in Zambia	6
Technology, infrastructure and enterprise trade-off: Strengthening smallholder farming systems in Tamil Nadu State of India for sustainable income and food security	6
Options for a just transition for livestock under climate change	6
An innovation systems approach to understanding forage adoption intensity in the dairy systems of Kenya and Ethiopia	6