OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agrekon is 4. 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
The impact of tenure security and agricultural diversity on food security	22
Taking stock of gender gaps in crop production technology adoption and technical efficiency in Ghana	19
District-level agricultural total factor productivity for the Karoo, South Africa: 1952–2002	14
The financial burden of African Horse Sickness: a case of the European Union trade ban on South Africa’s horse industry	12
Structure and entry barriers to access groundnut markets for intermediary traders in central and northern Malawi	12
Assessing the crop productivity and household welfare effects of adopting certified seeds of improved cassava varieties in Uganda	11
Producer prices, carcass classification and consumers’ willingness to pay for different sheep meat grades: an experimental auction approach	11
Foreign direct investment into agriculture: does it crowd-out domestic investment?	10
Potential improvement in the performance of dairy farms in South Africa	8
Total factor productivity growth in livestock production in Botswana: what is the role of scale and mix efficiency change in beef production?	8
Intolerance, xenophobia and cross-border supermarket groups’ operations in South Africa	8
How do we secure a future for the youth in South African agriculture?	7
Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for access to agricultural market information in Tanzania	7
Identifying possible misspecification in South African soybean oil futures contracts	7
Social protection policy and agricultural labour outcome in West Africa	6
Preferences for index-based pasture insurance: a choice experiment in Limpopo Province, South Africa	6
A sector-wide review of the COVID-19 impact on the South African agricultural sector during 2020–21	6
Farm- and community-level factors underlying the profitability of fertiliser usage for Ethiopian smallholder farmers	6
Determinants of crop abandonment by smallholder maize farmers in Zambia	6
Resilience and food security in a food systems context	5
Changing income portfolios and household welfare in rural Uganda	5
Rainfall variability and alternative technology adoption: evidence from Ethiopia	5
Identifying clusters of innovation barriers in farming enterprises: a K-modes clustering approach	4
Hotspots of vulnerability and disruption in food value chains during COVID-19 in South Africa: industry- and firm-level “pivoting” in response	4
Investigating the motivations driving meat analogue purchase among middle-income consumers in Mbombela, South Africa	4

Analysis of intra-region market integration and spatial price transmission in groundnut markets in Malawi	4
The effect of agricultural technology transfer on Zimbabwe’s economic development: a dynamic global trade analysis project approach	4
Factors affecting adoption of technical, organisational and institutional dairy innovations in selected milksheds in Kenya	4
The measurement of agricultural productivity in Africa	4
Productive efficiency and farm size in East Africa	4