OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agriculture and Human Values is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Agriculture and human values at 40 years: reflections on its scale and scope	71
Organic as civic engagement revisited: civic codes and deliberative strategies in the debate about hydroponic certification	64
Fermenting value on Vietnamese coffee farms: working knowledge and the production of quality	61
Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana	58
“Lights out” poultry production and pandemic influenza	58
The old, the new, or the old made new? Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution	54
The roles and dynamics of transition intermediaries in enabling sustainable public food procurement: insights from Spain	48
NGOisation and food sovereignty: unearthing the intricacies of NGO-driven food sovereignty efforts. Insights from Uganda	41
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt: the role of one formal farmer network, Practical Farmers of Iowa	38
Books received	35
How digital communications contribute to shaping the career paths of youth: a review study focused on farming as a career option	35
Arts-based interventions as catalysts for strengthening human-nature connectedness: a case study on the Biellese landscape and its local food practices	34
Farm workers’ food security during food price hikes: a political economy of landless rice-wheat farm labourers in Pakistan’s Punjab	32
Sustainable farm work in agroecology: how do systemic factors matter?	32
Contribution of local knowledge in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) to the well‑being of cocoa families in Colombia: a response from the relationship	31
‘That’s the life of the poor’: governmentality, development discourses, and the production of precarious subjectivity in Rural Brazil	30
Toward digital community economies: California’s alternative food networks navigating market digitalization	30
Retirement income and savings behavior in farm households	30
Correction to: A troubling view of food: tensions across matters of fact, concern, and care through the case of raw milk	28
Grajales, Jacobo: Agrarian capitalism, war and peace in Colombia: beyond dispossession	27
Distance to commercial banks and farm household asset accumulation	26
Friends with benefits: What constitutes a ‘benefit’ in Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) for plant genetic resources?	25
Sympoietic growth: living and producing with fungi in times of ecological distress	25
Practicing sustainable eating: zooming in a civic food network	25
Multi-stakeholder governance and precarious labour: Rethinking worker participation in the Equitable Food Initiative	25

Constructing legitimacy for technologies developed in response to environmental regulation: the case of ammonia emission-reducing technology for the Flemish intensive livestock industry	25
Replacing humans with machines: a historical look at technology politics in California agriculture	25
Books received	23
Agroecological management of spontaneous vegetation in Bachajón’s Tseltal Maya milpa: a preventive focus	23
The ‘Good Farmer’ and nature conservation through the eyes of agricultural advisors: insights from Slovenia	23
The border pineapple plantation economy: labor and social reproduction in the North of Costa Rica	22
Constructing agri-food for finance: startups, venture capital and food future imaginaries	22
Beyond social embeddedness: probing the power relations of alternative food networks in China	21
Governing by data: metrics and sustainability in produce agriculture	21
Advancing basic income as a policy tool for food systems sustainability	21
Identifying deep leverage points to destabilize ‘lock-in’ and empower farmers in the Midwestern agrifood system	21
No farm is an island: constrained choice, landscape thinking, and ecological insect management among Wisconsin farmers	21
Navigating a gendered ecosystem: the role of entrepreneurial capital in the business strategies of single-owner women farmers	20
Neoliberal growth vs food system democratization: narrative analysis of Canadian federal and civil society agri-food policy	20
How agricultural extension responds to amplified agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia: experts’ reflections	20
“We need them to keep putting food on our tables”: critiquing legislative discourses of food insecurity in Alberta, Canada	19
Michael Carolan: The real cost of cheap food (third edition)	19
Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins: Urban food mapping: making visible the edible city	19
Correction: Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability	19
Migrants, farmers and farmworkers and the politics of land and labour: an introduction to the symposium	19
Baladi politics: the social life of an untranslatable agro-culinary category in Israel/Palestine	18
Reviving shekhawati food and local food system through commoning: a case from Nawalgarh, India	17
What are the ‘Values’ in alternative food systems? A systematic review	17
Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores	17
Intensified rice production negatively impacts plant biodiversity, diet, lifestyle and quality of life: transdisciplinary and gendered research in the Middle Senegal River Valley	16
Unequal access to justice: an evaluation of RSPO’s capacity to resolve palm oil conflicts in Indonesia	16
Growing behind and beyond bars: an examination of prison gardens and reentry green jobs programs	16
Books received	16
Garden as society: exploring the values embedded in community garden aesthetics	16
Xiao Han and Lei Wang: Organic agriculture and biodiversity in China	16
Farming futures: Perspectives of Irish agricultural stakeholders on data sharing and data governance	16
Something to eat: experiences of food insecurity on the farm	15
Social reproduction and agrarian change: gendered harms in Bangladesh’s vegetable transition	15
When the university meets the grassroots: participatory action research and just transitions in agriculture	15
Motivations, changes and challenges of participating in food-related social innovations and their transformative potential: three cases from Berlin (Germany)	15
The new achikumbe elite: food systems transformation in the context of digital platforms use in agriculture in Malawi	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	14
Responsible research and innovation in food systems: a critical review of the literature and future research avenues	14
Framing the CAP reform 2013 in Austria’s agricultural media	14
Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice	14
“Half a flood’s no good”: flooding, viticulture, and hydrosocial terroir in a South Australian wine region	13
Thick critiques, thin solutions: news media coverage of meatpacking plants in the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Food insecurity and the covid pandemic: uneven impacts for food bank systems in Europe	13
Rendering quality technical: modern quinoa, modern farmers, and the moral politics of quality standards	13
Climate protection or agricultural production site? How political actors frame the future use of German peatlands	13
Role of the neo-rural phenomenon and the new peasantry in agroecological transitions: a literature review	13
Glimpses of embodied utopias, why Moroccan and Swiss farmers engage in alternative agricultures	13
Perception and acceptance of robots in dairy farming—a cluster analysis of German citizens	13
Aaron Eddens: Seeding empire: American philanthrocapital and the roots of the green revolution in Africa	12

The rise of multi-stakeholderism, the power of ultra-processed food corporations, and the implications for global food governance: a network analysis	12
“Safer to plant corn and beans”? Navigating the challenges and opportunities of agricultural diversification in the U.S. Corn Belt	12
The art of Buddhist connectivity: Organic rice farming in Thailand	12
The seeds are coming home: a rising movement for Indigenous seed rematriation in the United States	12
(Un)intended lock-in: Chile’s organic agriculture law and the possibility of transformation towards more sustainable food systems	12
Public support for producer adoption of soil health practices	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
The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia	11
Outcomes of international travel on agriculture: agricultural leadership programs create transformative learning and behavior change in farmers and ranchers	11
Books received	11
Alternative Food Networks in Latin America—exploring PGS (Participatory Guarantee Systems) markets and their consumers: a cross-country comparison	11
Ashok Gulati, Kavery Ganguly, Harsh Wardhan, (Eds): Agricultural value chains in India: ensuring competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability, and improved finance	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	10
Labour relations and working conditions of workers on smallholder cocoa farms in Ghana	10
Uncomfortable trade-offs in plant protection – public perceptions of chemical and biotechnology options	10
Worldviews, values and perspectives towards the future of the livestock sector	10
The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity: lessons from mothers in Cap-Haitian, Haiti	10
“Eat Prairie Lobster”: the limitations of agrarian revival as a strategy of producing insect edibility and constructing future food imaginaries in the American Midwest	10
Operationalizing collective action for crop diversity in-situ management: insights from a decentralized collective design approach	10
Becoming agricultural extensionists: the social production of career aspirations among agricultural graduates in Northwest Cambodia	10
Engaging with food waste while avoiding stigma: How a consultancy shields hospitality organizations from dirty work associations	10
Food security systems change: a case study from rural, regional, and remote Australia	9
A preliminary assessment of food policy obstacles in California’s produce recovery networks	9
Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women’s autonomy?	9
Utah producers and soil health: digging deeper	9
Selective, reciprocal and quiet: lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture	9
Kumusha and masalads: (inter)generational foodways and urban food security in Zimbabwe	9
Ecological regulation for healthy and sustainable food systems: responding to the global rise of ultra-processed foods	9
Regulating antimicrobial resistance: market intermediaries, poultry and the audit lock-in	9
Dianna Smith and Claire Thompson: Food deserts and food insecurity in the UK: exploring social inequality	9
Neo-colonialism in the Polish rural world: CAP approach and the phenomenon of suitcase farmers	9
A typology of food assistance models	9
“No one is talking about food”: making agriculture a “business” in Ghana	9
A buzzword, a “win-win”, or a signal towards the future of agriculture? A critical analysis of regenerative agriculture	9
What does it mean to care in industrial agriculture?	9
Q fever as an anthropological prism for revealing how farmers live with microbes	9
When one crisis comes after another: successive shocks, food insecurity, and coastal precarity in the Philippines	9
Livelihood resilience in context of crop booms: insights from Southwest China	9
Evaluating efforts to promote food sovereignty among farmers and food access organizations in the Hudson Valley	9
Ben White: Agriculture and the generation problem	8
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	8
Farming with a mission: the case of nonprofit farms	8
Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events	8
Is gene editing natural and does it matter? A qualitative analysis of citizen-consumers’ and farmers’ views on the use of new genomic techniques in plants	8
Divergent knowledge and perceptions of insects by organic and non-organic farming in the Ecuadorian Andes	8
Smallholder decision-making and its misalignment with sustainable development goal 2 (Zero Hunger)	8
Consumer perception and understanding of the risks of antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in farming	8
Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized cropping systems in Georgia (U.S.)	8
Reconquer and divide: comparative standard-setting strategies among producer organizations	8
“Organic” rice: different implications from process and product environmental verification approaches in Laos and Thailand	8
From farm to table: uncovering narratives of agency and responsibility for change among actors along agri-food value chains in Germany	8
A digital environmental regulation in agriculture: satellite data, crop farming, and the Nitrate Directive in France	8
Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability	8
Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue	8
Vincanne Adams: Glyphosate and the swirl: An agro-industrial chemical on the move	8
Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: a case study of farmers in Québec, Canada	8
Farm households’ social and economic needs and the future of agriculture: introduction to the symposium	8
Books received	7
Annemarie Mol: Eating in theory	7
Correction: With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies	7
The effects of collective trauma on Iowa farmers, their communities, and sustainability outcomes	7
Restoring sense out of disorder? Farmers’ changing social identities under big data and algorithms	7
Books received	7
“More than bees and flowers”: understanding public perceptions of biodiversity in the context of food production and consumption	7
Chasing pigs, chasing profits: (De)territorializing organic and free-range pig farming in Norway	7
Colleen Hammelman, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristin Reynolds (eds.): Radical food geographies. Power, knowledge and resistance	7
Robert Zimdahl (ed.): Key issues in agricultural ethics	7
Beyond the productivist ideal: understanding the drivers of land stewardship among amenity migrants transforming agrifood systems in rangelands	7
Books received	7
Mixed method evaluation of factors influencing the adoption of organic participatory guarantee system certification among Vietnamese vegetable farmers	7
Books received	7
Understanding the influence of indigenous values on change in the dairy industry	7
How do coffee farmers engage with digital technologies? A capabilities perspective	7
Loss of seasonal ranges reshapes transhumant adaptive capacity: Thirty-five years at the US Sheep Experiment Station	7
Transitioning practices of vegetable small-scale actors in Vietnam: an interplay of food safety, labor demand, and soil environment	7
Books received	7
The bright and the dark side of commercial urban agriculture labeling	7