OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agriculture and Human Values 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Agriculture and human values at 40 years: reflections on its scale and scope	68
Organic as civic engagement revisited: civic codes and deliberative strategies in the debate about hydroponic certification	53
Sustainable farm work in agroecology: how do systemic factors matter?	53
Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana	51
Farm workers’ food security during food price hikes: a political economy of landless rice-wheat farm labourers in Pakistan’s Punjab	48
Arts-based interventions as catalysts for strengthening human-nature connectedness: a case study on the Biellese landscape and its local food practices	43
Contribution of local knowledge in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) to the well‑being of cocoa families in Colombia: a response from the relationship	38
NGOisation and food sovereignty: unearthing the intricacies of NGO-driven food sovereignty efforts. Insights from Uganda	36
Retirement income and savings behavior in farm households	35
Books received	34
The roles and dynamics of transition intermediaries in enabling sustainable public food procurement: insights from Spain	32
How digital communications contribute to shaping the career paths of youth: a review study focused on farming as a career option	32
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt: the role of one formal farmer network, Practical Farmers of Iowa	31
The old, the new, or the old made new? Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution	28
“Lights out” poultry production and pandemic influenza	28
Practicing sustainable eating: zooming in a civic food network	27
Grajales, Jacobo: Agrarian capitalism, war and peace in Colombia: beyond dispossession	27
Constructing legitimacy for technologies developed in response to environmental regulation: the case of ammonia emission-reducing technology for the Flemish intensive livestock industry	27
Distance to commercial banks and farm household asset accumulation	27
Agroecological management of spontaneous vegetation in Bachajón’s Tseltal Maya milpa: a preventive focus	26
Sympoietic growth: living and producing with fungi in times of ecological distress	26
Identifying deep leverage points to destabilize ‘lock-in’ and empower farmers in the Midwestern agrifood system	25
The border pineapple plantation economy: labor and social reproduction in the North of Costa Rica	24
Constructing agri-food for finance: startups, venture capital and food future imaginaries	22
Replacing humans with machines: a historical look at technology politics in California agriculture	22

Pedagogies for seed sovereignty in Colombia: epistemic, territorial, and gendered dimensions	21
Garden as society: exploring the values embedded in community garden aesthetics	21
“We need them to keep putting food on our tables”: critiquing legislative discourses of food insecurity in Alberta, Canada	21
What are the ‘Values’ in alternative food systems? A systematic review	21
Governing by data: metrics and sustainability in produce agriculture	20
Community financing for sustainable food and farming: a proximity perspective	20
Farming futures: Perspectives of Irish agricultural stakeholders on data sharing and data governance	20
Unequal access to justice: an evaluation of RSPO’s capacity to resolve palm oil conflicts in Indonesia	19
Michael Carolan: The real cost of cheap food (third edition)	19
Neoliberal growth vs food system democratization: narrative analysis of Canadian federal and civil society agri-food policy	19
Beyond social embeddedness: probing the power relations of alternative food networks in China	18
No farm is an island: constrained choice, landscape thinking, and ecological insect management among Wisconsin farmers	18
Correction: Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability	18
Advancing basic income as a policy tool for food systems sustainability	18
Reviving shekhawati food and local food system through commoning: a case from Nawalgarh, India	17
Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins: Urban food mapping: making visible the edible city	17
Producer organizations as transition intermediaries? Insights from organic and conventional vegetable systems in Uruguay	16
Navigating a gendered ecosystem: the role of entrepreneurial capital in the business strategies of single-owner women farmers	16
Migrants, farmers and farmworkers and the politics of land and labour: an introduction to the symposium	16
Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores	16
Intensified rice production negatively impacts plant biodiversity, diet, lifestyle and quality of life: transdisciplinary and gendered research in the Middle Senegal River Valley	15
How agricultural extension responds to amplified agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia: experts’ reflections	15
Climate protection or agricultural production site? How political actors frame the future use of German peatlands	15
Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice	15
Make the desert bloom—imaginaries, infrastructure, and water-land entanglement in desert agriculture in Israel	15
Books received	15
Framing the CAP reform 2013 in Austria’s agricultural media	14
Motivations, changes and challenges of participating in food-related social innovations and their transformative potential: three cases from Berlin (Germany)	14
Growing behind and beyond bars: an examination of prison gardens and reentry green jobs programs	14
Xiao Han and Lei Wang: Organic agriculture and biodiversity in China	14
Something to eat: experiences of food insecurity on the farm	14
The new achikumbe elite: food systems transformation in the context of digital platforms use in agriculture in Malawi	13
Perception and acceptance of robots in dairy farming—a cluster analysis of German citizens	13
Producer and consumer perspectives on supporting and diversifying local food systems in central Iowa	13
Responsible research and innovation in food systems: a critical review of the literature and future research avenues	13
Colin Ray Anderson, Janneke Bruil, M. Jahi Chappell, Csilla Kiss, Michel Patrick Pimbert: Agroecology now! Transformations towards more just and sustainable food systems	12
The seeds are coming home: a rising movement for Indigenous seed rematriation in the United States	12
Aaron Eddens: Seeding empire: American philanthrocapital and the roots of the green revolution in Africa	12
Food insecurity and the covid pandemic: uneven impacts for food bank systems in Europe	12
Thick critiques, thin solutions: news media coverage of meatpacking plants in the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Role of the neo-rural phenomenon and the new peasantry in agroecological transitions: a literature review	12
“Safer to plant corn and beans”? Navigating the challenges and opportunities of agricultural diversification in the U.S. Corn Belt	11
“Half a flood’s no good”: flooding, viticulture, and hydrosocial terroir in a South Australian wine region	11
Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture “frontiers”	11
Ashok Gulati, Kavery Ganguly, Harsh Wardhan, (Eds): Agricultural value chains in India: ensuring competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability, and improved finance	11
Engaging with food waste while avoiding stigma: How a consultancy shields hospitality organizations from dirty work associations	11
Rendering quality technical: modern quinoa, modern farmers, and the moral politics of quality standards	11
Glimpses of embodied utopias, why Moroccan and Swiss farmers engage in alternative agricultures	11
The art of Buddhist connectivity: Organic rice farming in Thailand	11
Books received	11

Worldviews, values and perspectives towards the future of the livestock sector	11
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, Californ	11
(Un)intended lock-in: Chile’s organic agriculture law and the possibility of transformation towards more sustainable food systems	11
The rise of multi-stakeholderism, the power of ultra-processed food corporations, and the implications for global food governance: a network analysis	11
Operationalizing collective action for crop diversity in-situ management: insights from a decentralized collective design approach	11
Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women’s autonomy?	11
Timothy Lorek: Making the Green Revolution—agriculture and conflict in Colombia	11
Understanding the values that inform regenerative ranching in the Northern U.S. Great Plains	11
The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity: lessons from mothers in Cap-Haitian, Haiti	10
What does it mean to care in industrial agriculture?	10
Outcomes of international travel on agriculture: agricultural leadership programs create transformative learning and behavior change in farmers and ranchers	10
A buzzword, a “win-win”, or a signal towards the future of agriculture? A critical analysis of regenerative agriculture	10
A preliminary assessment of food policy obstacles in California’s produce recovery networks	10
Public support for producer adoption of soil health practices	10
Ecological regulation for healthy and sustainable food systems: responding to the global rise of ultra-processed foods	10
Regulating antimicrobial resistance: market intermediaries, poultry and the audit lock-in	10
The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia	9
Regenerative food systems and the conservation of change	9
Farm households’ social and economic needs and the future of agriculture: introduction to the symposium	9
Labour relations and working conditions of workers on smallholder cocoa farms in Ghana	9
Q fever as an anthropological prism for revealing how farmers live with microbes	9
Selective, reciprocal and quiet: lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture	9
Utah producers and soil health: digging deeper	9
Alternative Food Networks in Latin America—exploring PGS (Participatory Guarantee Systems) markets and their consumers: a cross-country comparison	9
Dianna Smith and Claire Thompson: Food deserts and food insecurity in the UK: exploring social inequality	9
Livelihood resilience in context of crop booms: insights from Southwest China	9
Kumusha and masalads: (inter)generational foodways and urban food security in Zimbabwe	9
“No one is talking about food”: making agriculture a “business” in Ghana	8
“Organic” rice: different implications from process and product environmental verification approaches in Laos and Thailand	8
Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events	8
Consumer perception and understanding of the risks of antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in farming	8
Reconquer and divide: comparative standard-setting strategies among producer organizations	8
From farm to table: uncovering narratives of agency and responsibility for change among actors along agri-food value chains in Germany	8
Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: a case study of farmers in Québec, Canada	8
Vincanne Adams: Glyphosate and the swirl: An agro-industrial chemical on the move	8
Ben White: Agriculture and the generation problem	8
Neo-colonialism in the Polish rural world: CAP approach and the phenomenon of suitcase farmers	8
When one crisis comes after another: successive shocks, food insecurity, and coastal precarity in the Philippines	8
Smallholder decision-making and its misalignment with sustainable development goal 2 (Zero Hunger)	8
A digital environmental regulation in agriculture: satellite data, crop farming, and the Nitrate Directive in France	8
Books received	7
“More than bees and flowers”: understanding public perceptions of biodiversity in the context of food production and consumption	7
Agroecological producers shortening food chains during Covid-19: opportunities and challenges in Costa Rica	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 pandemic	7
Correction: With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies	7
Books received	7
Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized cropping systems in Georgia (U.S.)	7
Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue	7
Farming with a mission: the case of nonprofit farms	7
How do coffee farmers engage with digital technologies? A capabilities perspective	7
Divergent knowledge and perceptions of insects by organic and non-organic farming in the Ecuadorian Andes	7
Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability	7
Chasing pigs, chasing profits: (De)territorializing organic and free-range pig farming in Norway	6
The effects of collective trauma on Iowa farmers, their communities, and sustainability outcomes	6
Colleen Hammelman, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristin Reynolds (eds.): Radical food geographies. Power, knowledge and resistance	6
Agroecology: advancing inclusive knowledge co-production with society	6
Food system shocks and food insecurity vulnerabilities: introduction to the symposium	6
Transitioning practices of vegetable small-scale actors in Vietnam: an interplay of food safety, labor demand, and soil environment	6
Understanding the influence of indigenous values on change in the dairy industry	6
Annemarie Mol: Eating in theory	6
Books received	6
Finding our way through the fog: embedding social infrastructure in food system resilience	6
Books received	6
Loss of seasonal ranges reshapes transhumant adaptive capacity: Thirty-five years at the US Sheep Experiment Station	6
Books received	6
Restoring sense out of disorder? Farmers’ changing social identities under big data and algorithms	6
Books received	6
From marginalized to miracle: critical bioregionalism, jungle farming and the move to millets in Karnataka, India	6