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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Contribution of local knowledge in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) to the well‑being of cocoa families in Colombia: a response from the relationship	70
“Lights out” poultry production and pandemic influenza	67
Farm workers’ food security during food price hikes: a political economy of landless rice-wheat farm labourers in Pakistan’s Punjab	54
Agriculture and human values at 40 years: reflections on its scale and scope	43
Organic as civic engagement revisited: civic codes and deliberative strategies in the debate about hydroponic certification	38
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt: the role of one formal farmer network, Practical Farmers of Iowa	37
Using fuzzy cognitive mapping and social capital to explain differences in sustainability perceptions between farmers in the northeast US and Denmark	36
Behind the scenes of a learning agri-food value chain: lessons from action research	35
Sustainable farm work in agroecology: how do systemic factors matter?	32
The old, the new, or the old made new? Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution	30
SNAP, campus food insecurity, and the politics of deservingness	30
Retirement income and savings behavior in farm households	30
NGOisation and food sovereignty: unearthing the intricacies of NGO-driven food sovereignty efforts. Insights from Uganda	30
Books received	29
How digital communications contribute to shaping the career paths of youth: a review study focused on farming as a career option	29
Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana	29
The roles and dynamics of transition intermediaries in enabling sustainable public food procurement: insights from Spain	23
Constructing legitimacy for technologies developed in response to environmental regulation: the case of ammonia emission-reducing technology for the Flemish intensive livestock industry	23
Grajales, Jacobo: Agrarian capitalism, war and peace in Colombia: beyond dispossession	23
Agroecological management of spontaneous vegetation in Bachajón’s Tseltal Maya milpa: a preventive focus	22
Josh Tickell: Kiss the ground: How the food you eat can reverse climate change, heal your body and ultimately save our world	22
Practicing sustainable eating: zooming in a civic food network	22
The border pineapple plantation economy: labor and social reproduction in the North of Costa Rica	21
Distance to commercial banks and farm household asset accumulation	21
Replacing humans with machines: a historical look at technology politics in California agriculture	20

Constructing agri-food for finance: startups, venture capital and food future imaginaries	20
Producer organizations as transition intermediaries? Insights from organic and conventional vegetable systems in Uruguay	19
Sympoietic growth: living and producing with fungi in times of ecological distress	19
Garden as society: exploring the values embedded in community garden aesthetics	19
Cacao cultivation as a livelihood strategy: contributions to the well-being of Colombian rural households	19
Farming futures: Perspectives of Irish agricultural stakeholders on data sharing and data governance	19
No farm is an island: constrained choice, landscape thinking, and ecological insect management among Wisconsin farmers	17
Pedagogies for seed sovereignty in Colombia: epistemic, territorial, and gendered dimensions	17
Beyond social embeddedness: probing the power relations of alternative food networks in China	17
Unequal access to justice: an evaluation of RSPO’s capacity to resolve palm oil conflicts in Indonesia	17
How agricultural extension responds to amplified agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia: experts’ reflections	16
Neoliberal growth vs food system democratization: narrative analysis of Canadian federal and civil society agri-food policy	16
Correction: Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability	16
Reviving shekhawati food and local food system through commoning: a case from Nawalgarh, India	16
Community financing for sustainable food and farming: a proximity perspective	16
Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins: Urban food mapping: making visible the edible city	16
Advancing basic income as a policy tool for food systems sustainability	16
Navigating a gendered ecosystem: the role of entrepreneurial capital in the business strategies of single-owner women farmers	15
Governing by data: metrics and sustainability in produce agriculture	15
Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores	15
Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice	14
Xiao Han and Lei Wang: Organic agriculture and biodiversity in China	14
Books received	14
Something to eat: experiences of food insecurity on the farm	14
Framing the CAP reform 2013 in Austria’s agricultural media	14
Food insecurity and the covid pandemic: uneven impacts for food bank systems in Europe	14
Make the desert bloom—imaginaries, infrastructure, and water-land entanglement in desert agriculture in Israel	14
Producer and consumer perspectives on supporting and diversifying local food systems in central Iowa	13
Motivations, changes and challenges of participating in food-related social innovations and their transformative potential: three cases from Berlin (Germany)	13
Growing behind and beyond bars: an examination of prison gardens and reentry green jobs programs	13
Perception and acceptance of robots in dairy farming—a cluster analysis of German citizens	13
The new achikumbe elite: food systems transformation in the context of digital platforms use in agriculture in Malawi	13
Intensified rice production negatively impacts plant biodiversity, diet, lifestyle and quality of life: transdisciplinary and gendered research in the Middle Senegal River Valley	13
Responsible research and innovation in food systems: a critical review of the literature and future research avenues	13
Role of the neo-rural phenomenon and the new peasantry in agroecological transitions: a literature review	12
Hugh Campbell: Farming inside invisible worlds: modernist agriculture and its consequences	12
The seeds are coming home: a rising movement for Indigenous seed rematriation in the United States	12
Narrating agricultural resilience after Hurricane María: how smallholder farmers in Puerto Rico leverage self-sufficiency and collaborative agency in a climate-vulnerable food system	12
Alex Blanchette: Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm	12
Who is ruining farmers markets? Crowds, fraud, and the fantasy of “real food”	12
“Half a flood’s no good”: flooding, viticulture, and hydrosocial terroir in a South Australian wine region	12
Colin Ray Anderson, Janneke Bruil, M. Jahi Chappell, Csilla Kiss, Michel Patrick Pimbert: Agroecology now! Transformations towards more just and sustainable food systems	12
(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
The art of Buddhist connectivity: Organic rice farming in Thailand	11
Books received	11
Glimpses of embodied utopias, why Moroccan and Swiss farmers engage in alternative agricultures	11
Rendering quality technical: modern quinoa, modern farmers, and the moral politics of quality standards	11
“Safer to plant corn and beans”? Navigating the challenges and opportunities of agricultural diversification in the U.S. Corn Belt	11
Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture “frontiers”	11

Aaron Eddens: Seeding empire: American philanthrocapital and the roots of the green revolution in Africa	11
Thick critiques, thin solutions: news media coverage of meatpacking plants in the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Operationalizing collective action for crop diversity in-situ management: insights from a decentralized collective design approach	11
Timothy Lorek: Making the Green Revolution—agriculture and conflict in Colombia	11
The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity: lessons from mothers in Cap-Haitian, Haiti	10
Labour relations and working conditions of workers on smallholder cocoa farms in Ghana	10
Ashok Gulati, Kavery Ganguly, Harsh Wardhan, (Eds): Agricultural value chains in India: ensuring competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability, and improved finance	10
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	9
Regenerative food systems and the conservation of change	9
Outcomes of international travel on agriculture: agricultural leadership programs create transformative learning and behavior change in farmers and ranchers	9
What does it mean to care in industrial agriculture?	9
A buzzword, a “win-win”, or a signal towards the future of agriculture? A critical analysis of regenerative agriculture	9
Regulating antimicrobial resistance: market intermediaries, poultry and the audit lock-in	9
Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women’s autonomy?	9
Forging just dietary futures: bringing mainstream and critical nutrition into conversation	9
A preliminary assessment of food policy obstacles in California’s produce recovery networks	9
Understanding the values that inform regenerative ranching in the Northern U.S. Great Plains	9
Epic narratives of the Green Revolution in Brazil, China, and India	8
“Organic” rice: different implications from process and product environmental verification approaches in Laos and Thailand	8
Q fever as an anthropological prism for revealing how farmers live with microbes	8
Dianna Smith and Claire Thompson: Food deserts and food insecurity in the UK: exploring social inequality	8
Kumusha and masalads: (inter)generational foodways and urban food security in Zimbabwe	8
Selective, reciprocal and quiet: lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture	8
Anitra Nelson and Ferne Edwards (Eds.): Food for degrowth: perspectives and practices	8
Examining farmers’ adoption of nutrient management best management practices: a social cognitive framework	8
Ecological regulation for healthy and sustainable food systems: responding to the global rise of ultra-processed foods	8
Public support for producer adoption of soil health practices	8
When one crisis comes after another: successive shocks, food insecurity, and coastal precarity in the Philippines	8
Livelihood resilience in context of crop booms: insights from Southwest China	8
Worldviews, values and perspectives towards the future of the livestock sector	8
The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia	8
Alternative Food Networks in Latin America—exploring PGS (Participatory Guarantee Systems) markets and their consumers: a cross-country comparison	8
Utah producers and soil health: digging deeper	8
Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events	8
“No one is talking about food”: making agriculture a “business” in Ghana	8
Reconquer and divide: comparative standard-setting strategies among producer organizations	7
Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability	7
Vincanne Adams: Glyphosate and the swirl: An agro-industrial chemical on the move	7
Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized cropping systems in Georgia (U.S.)	7
Ben White: Agriculture and the generation problem	7
Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: a case study of farmers in Québec, Canada	7
Rebecca de Souza: Feeding the other: Whiteness, privilege, and neoliberal stigma in food pantries	7
Food sovereignty and sustainability mid-pandemic: how Michigan’s experience of Covid-19 highlights chasms in the food system	7
Consumer perception and understanding of the risks of antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in farming	7
Books received	7
Farm households’ social and economic needs and the future of agriculture: introduction to the symposium	7
Neo-colonialism in the Polish rural world: CAP approach and the phenomenon of suitcase farmers	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
Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue	7
Correction: With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies	7
From farm to table: uncovering narratives of agency and responsibility for change among actors along agri-food value chains in Germany	7
From evidence to value-based transition: the agroecological redesign of farming systems	6
Farming with a mission: the case of nonprofit farms	6
Understanding the influence of indigenous values on change in the dairy industry	6
Annemarie Mol: Eating in theory	6
Books received	6
Searching for the plot: narrative self-making and urban agriculture during the economic crisis in Slovenia	6
Restoring sense out of disorder? Farmers’ changing social identities under big data and algorithms	6
Books received	6
Seeking justice, eating toxics: overlooked contaminants in urban community gardens	6
Transitioning practices of vegetable small-scale actors in Vietnam: an interplay of food safety, labor demand, and soil environment	6
Restore politics in societal debates on new genomic techniques	6
Citizen views on genome editing: effects of species and purpose	6
How do coffee farmers engage with digital technologies? A capabilities perspective	6
Loss of seasonal ranges reshapes transhumant adaptive capacity: Thirty-five years at the US Sheep Experiment Station	6
The effects of collective trauma on Iowa farmers, their communities, and sustainability outcomes	6
Books received	6
Can agriculture and conservation be compatible in a coastal wetland? Balancing stakeholders’ narratives and interactions in the management of El Hondo Natural Park, Spain	6