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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Heterogenous correlates of mechanization use and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe: A quantile regression analysis	325
An emerging food policy domain: The effects of autonomous transport technologies on food access and consumption	165
Viewpoint: The uptake of new crop science: Explaining success, and failure	130
Can we improve the healthiness of online food purchases through the Nutri-Score and site design?	88
Regulating menu information: What do consumers care and not care about at casual and fine dining restaurants for seafood consumption?	83
Technological innovation and agricultural performance in the ASEAN region: The role of digitalization	74
Public transfers, food consumption and dietary diversity. The case of Tarjeta Uruguay Social	67
The organizational challenge of international agricultural research: The fifty-year odyssey of the CGIAR	66
Time use and eating patterns of SNAP participants over the benefit month	64
Migration, gender labor division and food insecurity in Tajikistan	64
Food industry influence in collaborative governance: The case of the Dutch prevention agreement on overweight	64
Methane from cattle: facing realities in the global south	63
Corporate concentration and power matter for agency in food systems	63
Flood-tolerant rice improves climate resilience, profitability, and household consumption in Bangladesh	59
Deconstructing fertilizer price spikes: Evidence from Chinese urea fertilizer market	59
Use of recycled phosphorus products in organic farming in EU member states: Theoretically supported but practically restricted	58
Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost-effective addition to high-frequency food security monitoring	58
Food choices at a client choice food pantry: Do low-income pantry users respond to changed opportunity costs?	49
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	49
Animal disease outbreaks and upstream soybean trade	48
Review: untangling the complex economics of the local food retail environment	47
Fighting inflation through VAT reductions	46
Consumer preference for food products addressing multiple dimensions of poverty: Evidence from China	45
The role of pesticides and fertilizers in Czech cereal output and TFP growth: A flexible production function with endogenous inputs	43
Does subsidizing legume seeds improve farm productivity and nutrition in Malawi?	43

The unmet financial needs of intermediary firms within agri-food value chains in Uganda and Bangladesh	42
Can changing the meal sequence in school canteens reduce vegetable food waste? A cluster randomized control trial	40
Can government investment in food pantries decrease food insecurity?	40
Appealing to generosity to reduce food calorie intake: A natural field experiment	39
Managing across boundaries for coordinated local and regional food system policy	39
How can public policy encourage private investments in Indian agriculture? Input subsidies vs. public investment	38
The international trade impacts of Geographical Indications: Hype or hope?	37
Small wins in practice: Learnings from 16 European initiatives working towards the transformation of urban food systems	37
The impact of pre-empting dual food quality regulation on product reformulation and packaging	36
Editorial Board	36
Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security	36
Effects of school meals on nutrition: Evidence from the start of the school year	35
Multi-scalar policy uptake of the six-dimensional food security framework	35
Landscape heterogeneity, basis risk and the feasibility of index insurance: An analysis of rice in upland regions of Southeast Asia	34
Editorial Board	33
Regional and plant-size impacts of COVID-19 on beef processing	31
Impact of community development initiatives and access to community markets on household food security and nutrition in Ghana	31
Does agricultural intensification pay in the context of structural transformation?	31
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	29
Editorial Board	29
Fertilizer, soil health, and economic shocks: A synthesis of recent evidence	29
Climate and household food waste in China	29
Extreme weather events cause significant crop yield losses at the farm level in German agriculture	28
Composite effects of human, natural and social capitals on sustainable food-crop farming in Sub-Saharan Africa	28
Who values urban community gardens and how much?	28
Impact of crop commercialization on smallholder farmers’ resilience to shocks: Evidence from panel data for rural Southeast Asia	28
Introducing quality certification in staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Four conditions for successful implementation	28
Equity-Driven fiscal Policies: Taxing Ultra-Processed products and subsidizing minimally processed foods	27
Editorial Board	27
Putting your money where your mouth is: Accelerating investment action for healthy and sustainable food systems in Australia	27
A trade-off between lives and the economy? Subsidizing dining out under the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	27
Rural Economy-wide Impacts of Kenya’s Home-Grown School Meals Program	26
The transition incentive program and women farmers in the USA	26
The Information Value of Geographical Indications	26
How responsive are nutrients in India? Some recent evidence	26
Technical efficiency and technological gaps correcting for selectivity bias: Insights from a value chain project in Nepal	25
Unravelling the provisioning system of a strategic food commodity to minimise import dependency: A study of garlic in Indonesia	25
Food for thought: Assessing the consumer welfare impacts of deploying irreversible, landscape-scale biotechnologies	24
Corrigendum to “Financing agricultural innovation: challenges and alternatives to venture capital in the AgTech sector”. [Food Policy 136 (2025) 102967]	24
Internalizing the external costs to achieve environmental and economic Goals: A Case study of rice production in China	24
Mediation analysis of the impact of the Zimbabwe Harmonized Social Cash Transfer Programme on food security and nutrition	24
Disasters, population trends, and their impact on the U.S. pork packing sector	23
Associations of a national tax on non-essential high calorie foods with changes in consumer prices	23
A comment on USDA Food Business Centers: Collaborations to nurture innovation in the food system	23
Farm size and the quality and quantity of jobs—Insights from Nigeria	23
Trends and evolution of global value chains in food and agriculture: Implications for food security and nutrition	23
Consumer preferences for sugar-sweetened beverages: Evidence from online surveys and laboratory eye-tracking choice experiments	23
The impact of CAP subsidies on the productivity of cereal farms in six European countries: A historical perspective (2008–2018)	23
Editorial Board	22
Does food quality certification improve eco-efficiency? Empirical evidence from Chinese vegetable production	22

Place matters: Out-of-home demand for food and beverages in Great Britain	22
Food security and poverty reduction effects of agricultural technologies adoption − a multinomial endogenous switching regression application in rural Zimbabwe	22
Insurance subsidies, climate change, and innovation: Implications for crop yield resiliency	22
Voluntary sustainability standards and farmer welfare: The pathways to success?	22
Has COVID-19 accelerated the E-commerce of agricultural products? Evidence from sales data of E-stores in China	21
Editorial Board	21
Assessing benefits of crop insurance vis-a-vis irrigation in Indian agriculture	21
Impact of global value chains on tariffs and non-tariff measures in agriculture and food	21
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	20
Demand effects of unilateral versus industry-wide sugar reduction scenarios	20
Food politics in China: How strengthened accountability enhances food security	20
Green identity labeling, environmental information, and pro-environmental food choices	20
Farmland Leasing, misallocation Reduction, and agricultural total factor Productivity: Insights from rice production in China	19
Where is the value? The impacts of sow gestation crate laws on pork supply and consumer value perceptions	19
Promises and uncertainties in the cultivated proteins market: Perspectives from Germany and Brazil	19
Consumer-related antecedents of food provisioning behaviors that promote food waste	19
Integrating system dynamics to value chain analysis to address price volatility in the Indonesian chilli value chain	19
Do government zoning policies improve buyer-farmer relationships? Evidence from Rwanda’s coffee sector	19
The impact of policy design on payment concentration in Ad-hoc disaster Relief: Lessons from the Market Facilitation and Coronavirus food Assistance programs	19
Women improving nutrition through self-help groups in India: Does nutrition information help?	19
Measuring the impact of food rescue: A social return on investment analysis	19
Indigenous bone fertilizer for growth and food security: A local solution to a global challenge	19
Dollar store impact on local labor markets and retail activity	19
Information effects on consumer preferences for alternative animal feedstuffs	19
The policy relevance of maximum residue limits analyses	18
Editorial Board	18
Near-real-time welfare and livelihood impacts of an active war: Evidence from Ethiopia	18
How does global agricultural research and innovation cooperation influence agricultural R&I system transformation in the South? Evidence from UK-China cooperation	18
Tariffs and U.S. beer demand: How protectionist policies could impact market shares and consumer welfare	18
Beyond information: The power of personalized nudges in promoting vegetable purchases	18
Can unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) adoption reduce pesticide use and enhance yields? Evidence from mountainous rice farming in Yunnan, China	18
Do color-coded Nutrition Facts Panels nudge the use of nutrition information?	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
Mobile money, transaction costs, and market participation: evidence from Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania	17
The role of poultry transfers in diet diversity: A cluster randomized intent to treat analysis	17
Do the benefits of improved management practices to nutritional outcomes “dry up” in the presence of drought? Evidence from East Africa	17
Impact of agricultural commercialization on child nutrition in Ethiopia	17
Estimating the market effect of a trade war: The case of soybean tariffs	16
Can differentiated value-added tax rates promote healthier diets? The case of Costa Rica	16
Integrating social vulnerability into food fraud vulnerability assessment: policy implications for authenticity in Spanish honey	16
Value of certification in collective reputation crises: Evidence from Chinese dairy firms	16
Aggregation models and small farm commercialization – A scoping review of the global literature	16
Submitted and Denied: Understanding variation in case status across Supplemental Nutrition assistance program (SNAP) applications	16
Impact of food hubs on food security and sustainability: Food hubs perspectives from Leeds, UK	16
Gender and food systems: Are global recommendations for sustainable food systems transformation also gender transformative?	16
Trade effects of voluntary sustainability standards in tropical commodity sectors	15
Editorial Board	15
Understanding SNAP: An overview of recent research	15
Nudging greater vegetable intake and less food waste: A field experiment	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
Factors associated with harvest and postharvest loss among soybean farmers in Western Paraná State, Brazil	15
Would you buy vegan meatballs? The policy issues around vegan and meat-sounding labelling of plant-based meat alternatives	15
Trade-related food policies in a more volatile climate and trade environment	15
Public agriculture investment and food security in ECOWAS	15
Citizen voice and state response in the context of food system transformations	15
Public support for food subsidy and tax scenarios to promote healthy and sustainable diets: Evidence from deliberative forums in two UK locations	14
Evaluating cereal market (dis)integration in less developed and fragile markets: The case of Sudan	14
Experience-based food insecurity and agricultural productivity in Nigeria	14
COVID-19 risk perception and restaurant utilization after easing in-person restrictions	14
Editorial Board	14
Wine: The punching bag in trade retaliation	14
Editorial: Introducing Policy Comments	14
Do taxes on groceries increase body weight and restaurant food expenditures? Theory and evidence from the PSID data	14
Climate change and child malnutrition: A Nigerian perspective	13
Comparative resilience of US and EU meat processing to the Covid19 pandemic	13
Global poverty and the cost of a healthy diet	13
When increasing vegetable production may worsen food availability gaps: A simulation model in India	13
Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh	13
Viewpoint: Aligning vision and reality in publicly funded agricultural research for development: A case study of CGIAR	13
Earn a living? What the Côte d’Ivoire–Ghana cocoa living income differential might deliver on its promise	13
Shocked into side-selling? Production shocks and organic coffee farmers’ marketing decisions	13
Viewpoint: The case for a six-dimensional food security framework	13
Viewpoint: Finance needs of the agricultural midstream	13