Agriculture and Human Values

Papers
(The median citation count of Agriculture and Human Values is 2. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Agriculture and human values at 40 years: reflections on its scale and scope58
Organic as civic engagement revisited: civic codes and deliberative strategies in the debate about hydroponic certification55
Farm workers’ food security during food price hikes: a political economy of landless rice-wheat farm labourers in Pakistan’s Punjab53
Contribution of local knowledge in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) to the well‑being of cocoa families in Colombia: a response from the relationship49
Retirement income and savings behavior in farm households43
Books received41
The roles and dynamics of transition intermediaries in enabling sustainable public food procurement: insights from Spain38
NGOisation and food sovereignty: unearthing the intricacies of NGO-driven food sovereignty efforts. Insights from Uganda37
The old, the new, or the old made new? Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution37
How digital communications contribute to shaping the career paths of youth: a review study focused on farming as a career option34
Arts-based interventions as catalysts for strengthening human-nature connectedness: a case study on the Biellese landscape and its local food practices32
Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana32
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt: the role of one formal farmer network, Practical Farmers of Iowa31
“Lights out” poultry production and pandemic influenza30
Grajales, Jacobo: Agrarian capitalism, war and peace in Colombia: beyond dispossession29
Sustainable farm work in agroecology: how do systemic factors matter?29
Constructing legitimacy for technologies developed in response to environmental regulation: the case of ammonia emission-reducing technology for the Flemish intensive livestock industry28
Distance to commercial banks and farm household asset accumulation28
Agroecological management of spontaneous vegetation in Bachajón’s Tseltal Maya milpa: a preventive focus26
Sympoietic growth: living and producing with fungi in times of ecological distress26
Practicing sustainable eating: zooming in a civic food network26
The border pineapple plantation economy: labor and social reproduction in the North of Costa Rica25
Books received25
Identifying deep leverage points to destabilize ‘lock-in’ and empower farmers in the Midwestern agrifood system23
Replacing humans with machines: a historical look at technology politics in California agriculture22
Community financing for sustainable food and farming: a proximity perspective22
Constructing agri-food for finance: startups, venture capital and food future imaginaries22
Garden as society: exploring the values embedded in community garden aesthetics22
Governing by data: metrics and sustainability in produce agriculture21
Producer organizations as transition intermediaries? Insights from organic and conventional vegetable systems in Uruguay21
Farming futures: Perspectives of Irish agricultural stakeholders on data sharing and data governance21
Beyond social embeddedness: probing the power relations of alternative food networks in China20
Advancing basic income as a policy tool for food systems sustainability20
Neoliberal growth vs food system democratization: narrative analysis of Canadian federal and civil society agri-food policy20
Correction: Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability19
Reviving shekhawati food and local food system through commoning: a case from Nawalgarh, India19
Unequal access to justice: an evaluation of RSPO’s capacity to resolve palm oil conflicts in Indonesia18
Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins: Urban food mapping: making visible the edible city18
How agricultural extension responds to amplified agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia: experts’ reflections17
Migrants, farmers and farmworkers and the politics of land and labour: an introduction to the symposium17
Michael Carolan: The real cost of cheap food (third edition)17
“We need them to keep putting food on our tables”: critiquing legislative discourses of food insecurity in Alberta, Canada17
Pedagogies for seed sovereignty in Colombia: epistemic, territorial, and gendered dimensions16
Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores16
What are the ‘Values’ in alternative food systems? A systematic review16
No farm is an island: constrained choice, landscape thinking, and ecological insect management among Wisconsin farmers16
Books received16
Navigating a gendered ecosystem: the role of entrepreneurial capital in the business strategies of single-owner women farmers16
Framing the CAP reform 2013 in Austria’s agricultural media15
The new achikumbe elite: food systems transformation in the context of digital platforms use in agriculture in Malawi15
Intensified rice production negatively impacts plant biodiversity, diet, lifestyle and quality of life: transdisciplinary and gendered research in the Middle Senegal River Valley15
Make the desert bloom—imaginaries, infrastructure, and water-land entanglement in desert agriculture in Israel15
Growing behind and beyond bars: an examination of prison gardens and reentry green jobs programs15
Xiao Han and Lei Wang: Organic agriculture and biodiversity in China15
Role of the neo-rural phenomenon and the new peasantry in agroecological transitions: a literature review15
Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice14
Climate protection or agricultural production site? How political actors frame the future use of German peatlands14
Motivations, changes and challenges of participating in food-related social innovations and their transformative potential: three cases from Berlin (Germany)14
Producer and consumer perspectives on supporting and diversifying local food systems in central Iowa13
Perception and acceptance of robots in dairy farming—a cluster analysis of German citizens13
Responsible research and innovation in food systems: a critical review of the literature and future research avenues13
Food insecurity and the covid pandemic: uneven impacts for food bank systems in Europe13
Something to eat: experiences of food insecurity on the farm13
The rise of multi-stakeholderism, the power of ultra-processed food corporations, and the implications for global food governance: a network analysis12
Glimpses of embodied utopias, why Moroccan and Swiss farmers engage in alternative agricultures12
(Un)intended lock-in: Chile’s organic agriculture law and the possibility of transformation towards more sustainable food systems12
The seeds are coming home: a rising movement for Indigenous seed rematriation in the United States12
Aaron Eddens: Seeding empire: American philanthrocapital and the roots of the green revolution in Africa12
“Half a flood’s no good”: flooding, viticulture, and hydrosocial terroir in a South Australian wine region12
Thick critiques, thin solutions: news media coverage of meatpacking plants in the COVID-19 pandemic12
Colin Ray Anderson, Janneke Bruil, M. Jahi Chappell, Csilla Kiss, Michel Patrick Pimbert: Agroecology now! Transformations towards more just and sustainable food systems12
The art of Buddhist connectivity: Organic rice farming in Thailand12
Rendering quality technical: modern quinoa, modern farmers, and the moral politics of quality standards11
Books received11
Ashok Gulati, Kavery Ganguly, Harsh Wardhan, (Eds): Agricultural value chains in India: ensuring competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability, and improved finance11
All roads lead to the farmers market?: using network analysis to measure the orientation and central actors in a community food system through a case comparison of Yolo and Sacramento County, Californ11
“Safer to plant corn and beans”? Navigating the challenges and opportunities of agricultural diversification in the U.S. Corn Belt11
Operationalizing collective action for crop diversity in-situ management: insights from a decentralized collective design approach11
Outcomes of international travel on agriculture: agricultural leadership programs create transformative learning and behavior change in farmers and ranchers11
Public support for producer adoption of soil health practices11
Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture “frontiers”11
Timothy Lorek: Making the Green Revolution—agriculture and conflict in Colombia11
Engaging with food waste while avoiding stigma: How a consultancy shields hospitality organizations from dirty work associations11
The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia11
What does it mean to care in industrial agriculture?10
A buzzword, a “win-win”, or a signal towards the future of agriculture? A critical analysis of regenerative agriculture10
Food security systems change: a case study from rural, regional, and remote Australia10
Understanding the values that inform regenerative ranching in the Northern U.S. Great Plains10
Alternative Food Networks in Latin America—exploring PGS (Participatory Guarantee Systems) markets and their consumers: a cross-country comparison10
Worldviews, values and perspectives towards the future of the livestock sector10
Ecological regulation for healthy and sustainable food systems: responding to the global rise of ultra-processed foods9
From farm to table: uncovering narratives of agency and responsibility for change among actors along agri-food value chains in Germany9
Utah producers and soil health: digging deeper9
A preliminary assessment of food policy obstacles in California’s produce recovery networks9
Regulating antimicrobial resistance: market intermediaries, poultry and the audit lock-in9
Kumusha and masalads: (inter)generational foodways and urban food security in Zimbabwe9
“No one is talking about food”: making agriculture a “business” in Ghana9
The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity: lessons from mothers in Cap-Haitian, Haiti9
Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women’s autonomy?9
Q fever as an anthropological prism for revealing how farmers live with microbes9
Farm households’ social and economic needs and the future of agriculture: introduction to the symposium9
Dianna Smith and Claire Thompson: Food deserts and food insecurity in the UK: exploring social inequality9
Labour relations and working conditions of workers on smallholder cocoa farms in Ghana9
Neo-colonialism in the Polish rural world: CAP approach and the phenomenon of suitcase farmers8
Livelihood resilience in context of crop booms: insights from Southwest China8
Agroecological producers shortening food chains during Covid-19: opportunities and challenges in Costa Rica8
Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: a case study of farmers in Québec, Canada8
“Organic” rice: different implications from process and product environmental verification approaches in Laos and Thailand8
Selective, reciprocal and quiet: lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture8
Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized cropping systems in Georgia (U.S.)8
Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events8
When one crisis comes after another: successive shocks, food insecurity, and coastal precarity in the Philippines8
Vincanne Adams: Glyphosate and the swirl: An agro-industrial chemical on the move8
Reconquer and divide: comparative standard-setting strategies among producer organizations8
Divergent knowledge and perceptions of insects by organic and non-organic farming in the Ecuadorian Andes7
A digital environmental regulation in agriculture: satellite data, crop farming, and the Nitrate Directive in France7
Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue7
Books received7
Chasing pigs, chasing profits: (De)territorializing organic and free-range pig farming in Norway7
Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability7
Smallholder decision-making and its misalignment with sustainable development goal 2 (Zero Hunger)7
The resilience and viability of farmers markets in the United States as an alternative food network: case studies from Michigan during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Books received7
Correction: With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies7
Consumer perception and understanding of the risks of antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in farming7
Ben White: Agriculture and the generation problem7
Farming with a mission: the case of nonprofit farms7
Loss of seasonal ranges reshapes transhumant adaptive capacity: Thirty-five years at the US Sheep Experiment Station7
Transforming labour around food? the experience of community supported agriculture in Italy6
Colleen Hammelman, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristin Reynolds (eds.): Radical food geographies. Power, knowledge and resistance6
Annemarie Mol: Eating in theory6
Understanding the influence of indigenous values on change in the dairy industry6
Decolonizing agriculture in the United States: Centering the knowledges of women and people of color to support relational farming practices6
Who and what gets recognized in digital agriculture: agriculture 4.0 at the intersectionality of (Dis)Ableism, labor, and recognition justice6
From marginalized to miracle: critical bioregionalism, jungle farming and the move to millets in Karnataka, India6
Restoring sense out of disorder? Farmers’ changing social identities under big data and algorithms6
“More than bees and flowers”: understanding public perceptions of biodiversity in the context of food production and consumption6
The effects of collective trauma on Iowa farmers, their communities, and sustainability outcomes6
Books received6
Biocultural heritage of transhumant territories6
Work in progress: power in transformation to postcapitalist work relations in community–supported agriculture6
Books received6
How do coffee farmers engage with digital technologies? A capabilities perspective6
Books received6
Transitioning practices of vegetable small-scale actors in Vietnam: an interplay of food safety, labor demand, and soil environment6
The bright and the dark side of commercial urban agriculture labeling6
Relationships of regeneration in Great Plains commodity agriculture6
Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China5
Finding our way through the fog: embedding social infrastructure in food system resilience5
Farmer-farmworkers: cross-border wage labor in northeastern Vietnam-southwestern China region5
Equity and resilience in local urban food systems: a case study5
Everyday digitalization in food and agriculture: Introduction to the symposium5
What is the “small farm”? Terminological incoherence in the literature and possible paths forward5
Perceptions and sociocultural factors underlying adoption of conservation agriculture in the Mediterranean5
From awareness to action: building a community of practice for equity in food systems education5
Agroecology: advancing inclusive knowledge co-production with society5
Gender, women and agriculture in Agriculture and Human Values5
Illuminating the care/repair nexus in the ‘pandemic era’, and the potential for care beyond repair in Danish poultry production5
“How do we measure justice?”: missions and metrics in urban agriculture5
Sustainability assessment of short food supply chains (SFSC): developing and testing a rapid assessment tool in one African and three European city regions5
Agri-food related social innovations in sustainability transitions: a multiple case study of initiatives across Europe and Northern Africa engaged in change5
Mixed method evaluation of factors influencing the adoption of organic participatory guarantee system certification among Vietnamese vegetable farmers5
Restore politics in societal debates on new genomic techniques5
Charitable food provision as a strategic action field: introducing a meso-level perspective on food support organizing5
The transnational agricultural care chains of migrant farmworkers: land, livelihoods, and social reproduction5
What is culturally appropriate food consumption? A systematic literature review exploring six conceptual themes and their implications for sustainable food system transformation5
Transdisciplinary research for wicked problems5
Scaling up agroecology through new municipalism? Promises and pitfalls of experimentation in post-crisis Madrid5
From Big Ag to Big Finance: a market network approach to power in agriculture5
Food system shocks and food insecurity vulnerabilities: introduction to the symposium5
Understanding the challenges faced by Michigan’s family farmers: race/ethnicity and the impacts of a pandemic4
Books received4
Enhancing resilience through seed system plurality and diversity: challenges and barriers to seed sourcing during (and in spite of) a global pandemic4
Small farmers, big tech: agrarian commerce and knowledge on Myanmar Facebook4
“Taken-left” dynamics? Rethink the livelihood changes of affected villagers in the era of the global land rush4
Cross-border seasonal migrant labour and agricultural commodity production in the Ethiopia–Sudan borderlands4
Sociotechnical imaginaries for Canadian agri-food futures: a farmer survey4
Gerardo Otero and Efe Can Gürcan: Collective empowerment in Latin America: indigenous peasant movements and political transformation4
Precision agriculture and the future of agrarian labor in the US food system4
Hitting the target and missing the point? On the risks of measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development4
Adoption of smart farm networks: a translational process to inform digital agricultural technologies4
Books Received4
Disaster response and sustainable transitions in agrifood systems4
Chicken from the soil: qualifying local chicken amidst food distrust in southwestern China4
Committing to change? A case study on volunteer engagement at a New Zealand urban farm4
Co-designing policy mixes to overcome lock-ins towards sustainable agri-food systems: the case of the pig sector transformation in Brandenburg, Germany4
Power to the people? Food democracy initiatives’ contributions to democratic goods4
In the shadow of state-led agrarian reforms: smallholder pervasiveness in rural China4
Understanding food democracy through practitioner viewpoints: a Q-method study of local US food policy councils4
Creating dialogues as a quiet revolution: exploring care with women in regenerative farming4
Bipartisan creation of US Land Access Policy Incentives: states’ efforts to support beginning farmers and resist farm consolidation and loss4
Contexts of crop selection decisions shape changing agricultural landscape diversity in the United States4
“New food cultures” and the absent food citizen: immigrants in urban food policy discourse4
Muchtar Habibi: Capitalism and agrarian change—class, production, and reproduction in Indonesia4
Market approaches to sequester soil organic carbon on farms: justifications and suggested transformations from embedded market actors4
How the social dignity of recipients is violated and protected across various forms of food aid in high-income countries: a scoping review4
Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them4
Gardening practices in Alaska build on traditional food system foundations4
Rethinking gender mainstreaming in agricultural innovation policy in Nepal: a critical gender analysis4
Rachel Wynberg (Ed.): African perspectives on agroecology: Why farmer-led seed and knowledge systems matter4
Between ambitions and actions: how citizens navigate the entrepreneurial process of co-producing sustainable urban food futures4
Migrant (farm)workers and farmers in China and Myanmar: a perspective from the sugarcane sector4
Socioeconomic and political-cultural criteria for Agroecology: learnings from Participatory Guarantee Systems4
Urban food governance without local food: missing links between Czech post-socialist cities and urban food alternatives3
Rebalance power and strengthen farmers’ position in the EU food system? A CDA of the Farm to Fork Strategy3
The distinct drivers of diversification and job quality on BC organic vegetable farms3
Transformations in livestock systems: beyond ranching and pastoralism3
Power positions in the farm family, marrying in, and negative peer pressure: the social relations that impact agricultural practice3
When justifications are mistaken for motivations: COVID-related dietary changes at the food-health decision-making nexus3
William D. Schanbacher and Whitney Fung Uy: Food Insecurity3
Structured analysis of broader GMO impacts inspired by technology assessment to inform policy decisions3
Agriculture and environment: friends or foes? Conceptualising agri-environmental discourses under the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy3
Matthew C. Canfield: Translating food sovereignty: Cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance3
A one-sided love affair? On the potential for a coalition between degrowth and community-supported agriculture in Germany3
Bt cotton, pink bollworm, and the political economy of sociobiological obsolescence: insights from Telangana, India3
Bruce Scholten: Dairy farming in the 21st century: global ethics and politics3
Assessing the impacts of EU agricultural policies on the sustainability of the livestock sector: a review of the recent literature3
Fixing food with a limited menu: on (digital) solutionism in the agri-food tech sector3
A new food security approach? Continuity and novelty in the European Union’s turn to preparedness3
‘Smallholding for Whom?’: The effect of human capital appropriation on smallholder palm farmers3
Towards a theory of pastoralist and rancher identity: insights for understanding livestock systems in transformation3
Feminist agroecologies in Guatemala during economic shock3
Relational values in regenerative agriculture: a systematic review and checklist for transformative potential3
Identifying public trust building priorities of gene editing in agriculture and food3
From grains to berries: causes and consequences of crop portfolio changes in four mountain agroecosystems in the Iberian Peninsula3
Liz Carlisle: Healing grounds: Climate, justice, and the deep roots of regenerative farming3
Liberation extension: building capacities for civilizational transition3
The contestations of diversity, culture and commercialization: why tissue culture technology alone cannot solve the banana Xanthomonas wilt problem in central Uganda3
Books received3
Land access among immigrant Latinx workers and farmers in the United States: racialization, invisibility, and possibilities for reform3
Harnessing the potential of public procurement for the protein transition – perceived barriers and facilitators3
Are fencelines sites of engagement or avoidance in farmer adoption of alternative practices?3
(Alternative) food consumption practices in Central and Eastern Europe: an integrative critical literature review3
Conflicts between being a “Good Farmer” and freshwater policy: A New Zealand case study3
Farmers` agonistic conflict frames regarding river restoration disputes3
The framings of the coexistence of agrifood models: a computational analysis of French media3
An immersive, comparative approach to experiential learning in food studies education3
“Don’t mince words”: analysis of problematizations in Australian alternative protein regulatory debates3
Farmer satisfaction and short food supply chains3
Understanding the phases and tensions of regenerative agriculture for better health outcomes for farmers3
Communal resource management, morality, and economic development: a case of pastureland management in Mongolia3
L’Atelier Paysan: Reprendre la Terre aux Machines: Manifeste pour une Autonomie Paysanne et Alimentaire [taking back the land from the machines: a manifesto for peasant and food autonomy]3
Alternative visions of “ethical” dairying: changing entanglements with calves, cows and care3
The agrarian question in dairy farms: An analysis of dairy farms in the European Union countries3
LGBTQ+ food insufficiency in New England3
The role of intermediaries in transitions to agroecology in the Upper Midwest3
Motherhood, mothering and care among Mongolian herder women3
Transdisciplinary research for wicked problems: a transaction costs approach3
Generations of ‘shock absorbers’: women caregivers of young children and their efforts to mitigate food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic2
From rainforest to table: Lacandon Maya women are critical to diversify landscapes and diets in Lacanjá Chansayab, Mexico2
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