OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Food Policy is 13. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Heterogenous correlates of mechanization use and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe: A quantile regression analysis	346
Use of recycled phosphorus products in organic farming in EU member states: Theoretically supported but practically restricted	175
Public transfers, food consumption and dietary diversity. The case of Tarjeta Uruguay Social	151
Deconstructing fertilizer price spikes: Evidence from Chinese urea fertilizer market	84
Regulating menu information: What do consumers care and not care about at casual and fine dining restaurants for seafood consumption?	80
Migration, gender labor division and food insecurity in Tajikistan	71
Methane from cattle: facing realities in the global south	71
Technological innovation and agricultural performance in the ASEAN region: The role of digitalization	70
Time use and eating patterns of SNAP participants over the benefit month	70
An emerging food policy domain: The effects of autonomous transport technologies on food access and consumption	68
Food industry influence in collaborative governance: The case of the Dutch prevention agreement on overweight	64
Viewpoint: The uptake of new crop science: Explaining success, and failure	62
Can we improve the healthiness of online food purchases through the Nutri-Score and site design?	61
Corporate concentration and power matter for agency in food systems	59
The organizational challenge of international agricultural research: The fifty-year odyssey of the CGIAR	57
Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost-effective addition to high-frequency food security monitoring	53
The international trade impacts of Geographical Indications: Hype or hope?	53
Consumer preference for food products addressing multiple dimensions of poverty: Evidence from China	52
Managing across boundaries for coordinated local and regional food system policy	51
Animal disease outbreaks and upstream soybean trade	50
Appealing to generosity to reduce food calorie intake: A natural field experiment	49
Small wins in practice: Learnings from 16 European initiatives working towards the transformation of urban food systems	44
Can changing the meal sequence in school canteens reduce vegetable food waste? A cluster randomized control trial	43
The role of pesticides and fertilizers in Czech cereal output and TFP growth: A flexible production function with endogenous inputs	43
Can government investment in food pantries decrease food insecurity?	43

Review: untangling the complex economics of the local food retail environment	42
Food choices at a client choice food pantry: Do low-income pantry users respond to changed opportunity costs?	42
Fighting inflation through VAT reductions	41
The unmet financial needs of intermediary firms within agri-food value chains in Uganda and Bangladesh	41
How can public policy encourage private investments in Indian agriculture? Input subsidies vs. public investment	40
Influencing the nutritional quality of grocery purchases: A randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a social norm-based behavioral intervention with and without a loss-framed financial incentive	40
Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security	40
Effects of school meals on nutrition: Evidence from the start of the school year	39
Does subsidizing legume seeds improve farm productivity and nutrition in Malawi?	39
Editorial Board	38
Editorial Board	38
Who values urban community gardens and how much?	35
Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria	34
Impact of crop commercialization on smallholder farmers’ resilience to shocks: Evidence from panel data for rural Southeast Asia	34
Climate and household food waste in China	33
Impact of community development initiatives and access to community markets on household food security and nutrition in Ghana	32
Does agricultural intensification pay in the context of structural transformation?	32
Fertilizer, soil health, and economic shocks: A synthesis of recent evidence	32
Landscape heterogeneity, basis risk and the feasibility of index insurance: An analysis of rice in upland regions of Southeast Asia	32
Multi-scalar policy uptake of the six-dimensional food security framework	31
Regional and plant-size impacts of COVID-19 on beef processing	31
Editorial Board	30
Composite effects of human, natural and social capitals on sustainable food-crop farming in Sub-Saharan Africa	30
The impact of pre-empting dual food quality regulation on product reformulation and packaging	30
Subsidizing improved legume seeds for increased household dietary diversity: Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme with implications for addressing malnutrition in all its forms	30
Extreme weather events cause significant crop yield losses at the farm level in German agriculture	29
The Information Value of Geographical Indications	29
A trade-off between lives and the economy? Subsidizing dining out under the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	29
Editorial Board	29
Farm size and the quality and quantity of jobs—Insights from Nigeria	29
Mediation analysis of the impact of the Zimbabwe Harmonized Social Cash Transfer Programme on food security and nutrition	27
Technical efficiency and technological gaps correcting for selectivity bias: Insights from a value chain project in Nepal	27
How responsive are nutrients in India? Some recent evidence	27
Rural Economy-wide Impacts of Kenya’s Home-Grown School Meals Program	27
Corrigendum to “Financing agricultural innovation: challenges and alternatives to venture capital in the AgTech sector”. [Food Policy 136 (2025) 102967]	27
Consumer preferences for sugar-sweetened beverages: Evidence from online surveys and laboratory eye-tracking choice experiments	27
Disasters, population trends, and their impact on the U.S. pork packing sector	27
Food for thought: Assessing the consumer welfare impacts of deploying irreversible, landscape-scale biotechnologies	26
Putting your money where your mouth is: Accelerating investment action for healthy and sustainable food systems in Australia	26
Associations of a national tax on non-essential high calorie foods with changes in consumer prices	25
Internalizing the external costs to achieve environmental and economic Goals: A Case study of rice production in China	25
Marketing strategies used in retail food environments in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and North Macedonia	25
The transition incentive program and women farmers in the USA	25
Equity-Driven fiscal Policies: Taxing Ultra-Processed products and subsidizing minimally processed foods	25
Unravelling the provisioning system of a strategic food commodity to minimise import dependency: A study of garlic in Indonesia	25
Editorial Board	24
Impact of global value chains on tariffs and non-tariff measures in agriculture and food	24
Editorial Board	24
A comment on USDA Food Business Centers: Collaborations to nurture innovation in the food system	24
Demand effects of unilateral versus industry-wide sugar reduction scenarios	23

Measuring changes in pork demand, welfare effects, and the role of information sources in the event of an African swine fever outbreak in the United States	23
Toward local nutritious foods for a healthy food environment for children: A community-led food innovation in Benin’s drylands	22
The impact of CAP subsidies on the productivity of cereal farms in six European countries: A historical perspective (2008–2018)	22
Has COVID-19 accelerated the E-commerce of agricultural products? Evidence from sales data of E-stores in China	22
Green identity labeling, environmental information, and pro-environmental food choices	22
Trends and evolution of global value chains in food and agriculture: Implications for food security and nutrition	21
Food politics in China: How strengthened accountability enhances food security	21
Does food quality certification improve eco-efficiency? Empirical evidence from Chinese vegetable production	21
Assessing benefits of crop insurance vis-a-vis irrigation in Indian agriculture	21
Insurance subsidies, climate change, and innovation: Implications for crop yield resiliency	21
Place matters: Out-of-home demand for food and beverages in Great Britain	21
Voluntary sustainability standards and farmer welfare: The pathways to success?	21
Food security and poverty reduction effects of agricultural technologies adoption − a multinomial endogenous switching regression application in rural Zimbabwe	21
The impact of policy design on payment concentration in Ad-hoc disaster Relief: Lessons from the Market Facilitation and Coronavirus food Assistance programs	20
Dollar store impact on local labor markets and retail activity	20
Indigenous bone fertilizer for growth and food security: A local solution to a global challenge	20
Women improving nutrition through self-help groups in India: Does nutrition information help?	20
Where is the value? The impacts of sow gestation crate laws on pork supply and consumer value perceptions	20
Farmland Leasing, misallocation Reduction, and agricultural total factor Productivity: Insights from rice production in China	20
Tariffs and U.S. beer demand: How protectionist policies could impact market shares and consumer welfare	20
Near-real-time welfare and livelihood impacts of an active war: Evidence from Ethiopia	20
Editorial Board	19
Promises and uncertainties in the cultivated proteins market: Perspectives from Germany and Brazil	19
Do food safety certifications improve the safety of our food system? evidence from the U.S. Meat, Poultry, and egg industry	19
Consumer-related antecedents of food provisioning behaviors that promote food waste	19
Can unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) adoption reduce pesticide use and enhance yields? Evidence from mountainous rice farming in Yunnan, China	19
Integrating system dynamics to value chain analysis to address price volatility in the Indonesian chilli value chain	19
Information effects on consumer preferences for alternative animal feedstuffs	19
Measuring the impact of food rescue: A social return on investment analysis	19
Do government zoning policies improve buyer-farmer relationships? Evidence from Rwanda’s coffee sector	19
Would you buy vegan meatballs? The policy issues around vegan and meat-sounding labelling of plant-based meat alternatives	18
Impact of agricultural commercialization on child nutrition in Ethiopia	18
Do color-coded Nutrition Facts Panels nudge the use of nutrition information?	18
Nudging greater vegetable intake and less food waste: A field experiment	18
Value of certification in collective reputation crises: Evidence from Chinese dairy firms	17
Gender and food systems: Are global recommendations for sustainable food systems transformation also gender transformative?	17
Do the benefits of improved management practices to nutritional outcomes “dry up” in the presence of drought? Evidence from East Africa	17
Employment and wage effects of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and front-of-package warning label regulations on the food and beverage industry: Evidence from Peru	17
Integrating social vulnerability into food fraud vulnerability assessment: policy implications for authenticity in Spanish honey	17
The policy relevance of maximum residue limits analyses	17
Submitted and Denied: Understanding variation in case status across Supplemental Nutrition assistance program (SNAP) applications	17
The role of poultry transfers in diet diversity: A cluster randomized intent to treat analysis	16
Mobile money, transaction costs, and market participation: evidence from Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania	16
How does global agricultural research and innovation cooperation influence agricultural R&I system transformation in the South? Evidence from UK-China cooperation	16
Aggregation models and small farm commercialization – A scoping review of the global literature	16
Impact of food hubs on food security and sustainability: Food hubs perspectives from Leeds, UK	16
Can differentiated value-added tax rates promote healthier diets? The case of Costa Rica	16
Beyond information: The power of personalized nudges in promoting vegetable purchases	16
COVID-19 risk perception and restaurant utilization after easing in-person restrictions	15
Evaluating cereal market (dis)integration in less developed and fragile markets: The case of Sudan	15
Public agriculture investment and food security in ECOWAS	15
Wine: The punching bag in trade retaliation	15
Trade effects of voluntary sustainability standards in tropical commodity sectors	15
Public support for food subsidy and tax scenarios to promote healthy and sustainable diets: Evidence from deliberative forums in two UK locations	15
Editorial Board	15
Food safety, sampling inspection and optimization of regulatory resource allocation: Evidence from China’s aquatic food inspection	15
Food price stabilization: theory and lessons from experience	15
‘Because of its size, it’s not worth it!’: The viability of small-scale geographical indication schemes	15
Understanding SNAP: An overview of recent research	15
Citizen voice and state response in the context of food system transformations	15
Legal responsibility and regulatory compliance with food information on e-grocery platforms: an Italian case study offering insights for future policies and consumer protection in the European context	15
Ethnicity, information and cooperation: Evidence from a group-based nutrition intervention	14
Editorial Board	14
Earn a living? What the Côte d’Ivoire–Ghana cocoa living income differential might deliver on its promise	14
Editorial: Introducing Policy Comments	14
Comparative resilience of US and EU meat processing to the Covid19 pandemic	14
Factors associated with harvest and postharvest loss among soybean farmers in Western Paraná State, Brazil	14
Viewpoint: Finance needs of the agricultural midstream	14
Experience-based food insecurity and agricultural productivity in Nigeria	14
Trade-related food policies in a more volatile climate and trade environment	14
Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh	14
Shocked into side-selling? Production shocks and organic coffee farmers’ marketing decisions	14
When increasing vegetable production may worsen food availability gaps: A simulation model in India	13
Viewpoint: Aligning vision and reality in publicly funded agricultural research for development: A case study of CGIAR	13
Viewpoint: The case for a six-dimensional food security framework	13
Do taxes on groceries increase body weight and restaurant food expenditures? Theory and evidence from the PSID data	13
Climate change and child malnutrition: A Nigerian perspective	13
Global poverty and the cost of a healthy diet	13
Higher temperatures and household nutrition: Evidence from India	13