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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pastoral hazardscapes in Aotearoa New Zealand: gender, land dispossession, and dairying in a warming climate	65
Utah producers and soil health: digging deeper	65
Chicken from the soil: qualifying local chicken amidst food distrust in southwestern China	49
Q fever as an anthropological prism for revealing how farmers live with microbes	37
Contribution of local knowledge in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) to the well‑being of cocoa families in Colombia: a response from the relationship	37
Forms of autonomy and dependence in food aid: unravelling how they are related and perceived by recipients	31
“New food cultures” and the absent food citizen: immigrants in urban food policy discourse	30
Disaster response and sustainable transitions in agrifood systems	30
Muchtar Habibi: Capitalism and agrarian change—class, production, and reproduction in Indonesia	28
Precision agriculture and the future of agrarian labor in the US food system	28
Jérémie Forney, Dana Bentia and Angga Dwiartama: Everyday agri-environmental governance. The emergence of sustainability through assemblage thinking	26
When one crisis comes after another: successive shocks, food insecurity, and coastal precarity in the Philippines	26
Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro and George Martin: Urban food production for ecosocialism: cultivating the city	26
Dianna Smith and Claire Thompson: Food deserts and food insecurity in the UK: exploring social inequality	25
Books Received	24
Food systems narratives in Colombia: embracing diverse perspectives can enable hybrid innovation pathways that address food system challenges	24
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements	24
Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam, Eds.: Meat! A Transnational Analysis	21
How digital communications contribute to shaping the career paths of youth: a review study focused on farming as a career option	21
Books received	21
Does “better” mean “less”? Sustainable meat consumption in the context of natural pasture-raised beef	20
Livelihood resilience in context of crop booms: insights from Southwest China	20
Professional emotional neutrality and the role of background emotion work in the slaughterhouse	20
Medical economic vulnerability: a next step in expanding the farm resilience scholarship	19
Food sovereignty and sustainability mid-pandemic: how Michigan’s experience of Covid-19 highlights chasms in the food system	18

Between ambitions and actions: how citizens navigate the entrepreneurial process of co-producing sustainable urban food futures	18
Gardening practices in Alaska build on traditional food system foundations	18
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt: the role of one formal farmer network, Practical Farmers of Iowa	18
“Organic” rice: different implications from process and product environmental verification approaches in Laos and Thailand	18
Sustainable farm work in agroecology: how do systemic factors matter?	18
Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events	18
Divergent approaches to the ‘family farm’: celebrate, reform, or abolish?	18
Farm households’ social and economic needs and the future of agriculture: introduction to the symposium	17
Farm workers’ food security during food price hikes: a political economy of landless rice-wheat farm labourers in Pakistan’s Punjab	17
Unsettling wildness: seafood consumption in new materialism	17
Paul B. Thompson and Patricia E. Norris: sustainability–what everyone needs to know	16
Social finance for sustainable food systems: opportunities, tensions and ambiguities	16
New entrant farming policy as predatory inclusion: (Re)production of the farm through generational renewal policy programs in Scotland	16
Work-life balance on a farm with young children in Slovenia	15
The roles and dynamics of transition intermediaries in enabling sustainable public food procurement: insights from Spain	15
Landscape discourses and rural transformations: insights from the Dutch Dune and Flower Bulb Region	14
NGOisation and food sovereignty: unearthing the intricacies of NGO-driven food sovereignty efforts. Insights from Uganda	14
Organic as civic engagement revisited: civic codes and deliberative strategies in the debate about hydroponic certification	13
How do the people that feed Europe feed themselves? Exploring the (in)formal food practices of Almería’s migrant and seasonal food workers	13
"I wonder if I'm being [a] Karen”: Analyzing rural–urban farmer network building	13
Kumusha and masalads: (inter)generational foodways and urban food security in Zimbabwe	13
Understanding the challenges faced by Michigan’s family farmers: race/ethnicity and the impacts of a pandemic	13
Retirement income and savings behavior in farm households	13
Anitra Nelson and Ferne Edwards (Eds.): Food for degrowth: perspectives and practices	13
Moving beyond direct marketing with new mediated models: evolution of or departure from alternative food networks?	13
Children needs and childcare: an illustration of how underappreciated social and economic needs shape the farm enterprise	13
Observing farm plots to increase attentiveness and cooperation with nature: a case study in Belgium	13
Muhammad Khalid Bashir, Steven G.M. Schilizzi, and Ghaffar Ali: Food Security in the Developing World	12
Superweed amaranth: metaphor and the power of a threatening discourse	12
‘They call it progress, but we don’t see it as progress’: farm consolidation and land concentration in Saskatchewan, Canada	12
Selective, reciprocal and quiet: lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture	12
Male and stale? Questioning the role of “opinion leaders” in agricultural programs	12
Agriculture and human values at 40 years: reflections on its scale and scope	12
Just-in-case transitions and the pursuit of resilient food systems: enumerative politics and what it means to make care count	11
Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: a case study of farmers in Québec, Canada	11
Enhancing resilience through seed system plurality and diversity: challenges and barriers to seed sourcing during (and in spite of) a global pandemic	11
Tackling land’s ‘stubborn materiality’: the interplay of imaginaries, data and digital technologies within farmland assetization	11
Socioeconomic and political-cultural criteria for Agroecology: learnings from Participatory Guarantee Systems	11
Julie C. Keller: Milking in the shadows: migrants and mobility in America’s dairyland	11
The human being at the heart of agroecological transitions: insights from cognitive mapping of actors’ vision of change in Roquefort area	11
“No one is talking about food”: making agriculture a “business” in Ghana	11
Drought adaptation in Austrian agriculture: empirically based farmer types	11
Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana	11
Social solidarity, social infrastructure, and community food access	11
Behind the scenes of a learning agri-food value chain: lessons from action research	10
SNAP, campus food insecurity, and the politics of deservingness	10
Beyond a neoliberal critique of hunger: a genealogy of food charity in Aotearoa New Zealand	10
Reinventing the meal: a genealogy of plant-based alternative proteins	10
Work without workers: legal geographies of family farm exclusions from labour laws in Alberta, Canada	10
“Lights out” poultry production and pandemic influenza	9

Regenerative agriculture and a more-than-human ethic of care: a relational approach to understanding transformation	9
Lifestyle or profit? The complex decision-making criteria for local food entrepreneurs	9
Grajales, Jacobo: Agrarian capitalism, war and peace in Colombia: beyond dispossession	9
Rethinking gender mainstreaming in agricultural innovation policy in Nepal: a critical gender analysis	9
In the shadow of state-led agrarian reforms: smallholder pervasiveness in rural China	9
The old, the new, or the old made new? Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution	9
Food democracy: possibilities under the frame of the current food system	9
Neo-colonialism in the Polish rural world: CAP approach and the phenomenon of suitcase farmers	9
Return and repair: the rise of Jewish agrarian movements in North America	9
A review of megatrends in the global dairy sector: what are the socioecological implications?	9
Using fuzzy cognitive mapping and social capital to explain differences in sustainability perceptions between farmers in the northeast US and Denmark	9
Generations of ‘shock absorbers’: women caregivers of young children and their efforts to mitigate food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Glenn Davis Stone: The agricultural dilemma: how not to feed the world	8
How farmers’ self-identities affect agri-environmental transition in Grassland Use: a mixed method study in the Swiss Alpine Region	8
Migrant (farm)workers and farmers in China and Myanmar: a perspective from the sugarcane sector	8
Revealing agricultural land ownership concentration with cadastral and company network data	8
Cross-border seasonal migrant labour and agricultural commodity production in the Ethiopia–Sudan borderlands	8
Creating dialogues as a quiet revolution: exploring care with women in regenerative farming	8
Bipartisan creation of US Land Access Policy Incentives: states’ efforts to support beginning farmers and resist farm consolidation and loss	8
The emergence of microbiological inputs and the challenging laboratorisation of agriculture: lessons from Brazil and Mexico	8
The border pineapple plantation economy: labor and social reproduction in the North of Costa Rica	8
Unpacking “the surprise chain”: the governance of food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Melbourne, Australia	8
Harnessing the potential of public procurement for the protein transition – perceived barriers and facilitators	8
Motherhood, mothering and care among Mongolian herder women	8
Books received	8
Agroecological management of spontaneous vegetation in Bachajón’s Tseltal Maya milpa: a preventive focus	8
Seasonal migrant farm workers at the nexus of production and social reproduction in contemporary Turkey	8
Reuniting the Three Sisters: collaborative science with Native growers to improve soil and community health	7
Correction: Reconquer and divide: comparative standard-setting strategies among producer organizations	7
Rebecca de Souza: Feeding the other: Whiteness, privilege, and neoliberal stigma in food pantries	7
Josh Tickell: Kiss the ground: How the food you eat can reverse climate change, heal your body and ultimately save our world	7
Sociotechnical imaginaries for Canadian agri-food futures: a farmer survey	7
Liberation extension: building capacities for civilizational transition	7
Replacing humans with machines: a historical look at technology politics in California agriculture	7
Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized cropping systems in Georgia (U.S.)	7
Distance to commercial banks and farm household asset accumulation	7
Contemporary narratives about asymmetries in responsibility in global agri-food value chains: the case of the Ecuadorian stakeholders in the banana value chain	7
Ben White: Agriculture and the generation problem	7
Reconquer and divide: comparative standard-setting strategies among producer organizations	7
Hitting the target and missing the point? On the risks of measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development	6
Sympoietic growth: living and producing with fungi in times of ecological distress	6
Ruminant livestock and climate change: critical discourse moments in mainstream and farming sector news media	6
Seeing the workers for the trees: exalted and devalued manual labour in the Pacific Northwest craft cider industry	6
Harvesting connections: the role of stakeholders’ network structure, dynamics and actors’ influence in shaping farmers’ markets	6
Governing the soil: natural farming and bionationalism in India	6
What is a food system? Exploring enactments of the food system multiple	6
Negotiating agricultural change in the Midwestern US: seeking compatibility between farmer narratives of efficiency and legacy	6
‘Smallholding for Whom?’: The effect of human capital appropriation on smallholder palm farmers	6
Justin Sean Myers: Growing gardens, building power: food justice and urban agriculture in Brooklyn	6
Does adopting a nitrogen best management practice reduce nitrogen fertilizer rates?	6
Stuart McCook: Coffee is not forever: a global history of the coffee leaf rust	6
Urban food governance without local food: missing links between Czech post-socialist cities and urban food alternatives	6
Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability	6
Local food systems, citizen and public science, empowered communities, and democracy: hopes deserving to live	6