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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Agriculture and human values at 40 years: reflections on its scale and scope	58
Organic as civic engagement revisited: civic codes and deliberative strategies in the debate about hydroponic certification	55
Farm workers’ food security during food price hikes: a political economy of landless rice-wheat farm labourers in Pakistan’s Punjab	53
Contribution of local knowledge in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) to the well‑being of cocoa families in Colombia: a response from the relationship	49
Retirement income and savings behavior in farm households	43
Books received	41
The roles and dynamics of transition intermediaries in enabling sustainable public food procurement: insights from Spain	38
NGOisation and food sovereignty: unearthing the intricacies of NGO-driven food sovereignty efforts. Insights from Uganda	37
The old, the new, or the old made new? Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution	37
How digital communications contribute to shaping the career paths of youth: a review study focused on farming as a career option	34
Arts-based interventions as catalysts for strengthening human-nature connectedness: a case study on the Biellese landscape and its local food practices	32
Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana	32
The adoption of conservation practices in the Corn Belt: the role of one formal farmer network, Practical Farmers of Iowa	31
“Lights out” poultry production and pandemic influenza	30
Sustainable farm work in agroecology: how do systemic factors matter?	29
Grajales, Jacobo: Agrarian capitalism, war and peace in Colombia: beyond dispossession	29
Constructing legitimacy for technologies developed in response to environmental regulation: the case of ammonia emission-reducing technology for the Flemish intensive livestock industry	28
Distance to commercial banks and farm household asset accumulation	28
Practicing sustainable eating: zooming in a civic food network	26
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
Books received	25
The border pineapple plantation economy: labor and social reproduction in the North of Costa Rica	25
Identifying deep leverage points to destabilize ‘lock-in’ and empower farmers in the Midwestern agrifood system	23
Community financing for sustainable food and farming: a proximity perspective	22

Constructing agri-food for finance: startups, venture capital and food future imaginaries	22
Garden as society: exploring the values embedded in community garden aesthetics	22
Replacing humans with machines: a historical look at technology politics in California agriculture	22
Producer organizations as transition intermediaries? Insights from organic and conventional vegetable systems in Uruguay	21
Farming futures: Perspectives of Irish agricultural stakeholders on data sharing and data governance	21
Governing by data: metrics and sustainability in produce agriculture	21
Advancing basic income as a policy tool for food systems sustainability	20
Neoliberal growth vs food system democratization: narrative analysis of Canadian federal and civil society agri-food policy	20
Beyond social embeddedness: probing the power relations of alternative food networks in China	20
Reviving shekhawati food and local food system through commoning: a case from Nawalgarh, India	19
Correction: Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability	19
Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins: Urban food mapping: making visible the edible city	18
Unequal access to justice: an evaluation of RSPO’s capacity to resolve palm oil conflicts in Indonesia	18
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, Canada	17
How agricultural extension responds to amplified agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia: experts’ reflections	17
Migrants, farmers and farmworkers and the politics of land and labour: an introduction to the symposium	17
Books received	16
Navigating a gendered ecosystem: the role of entrepreneurial capital in the business strategies of single-owner women farmers	16
Pedagogies for seed sovereignty in Colombia: epistemic, territorial, and gendered dimensions	16
Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores	16
What are the ‘Values’ in alternative food systems? A systematic review	16
No farm is an island: constrained choice, landscape thinking, and ecological insect management among Wisconsin farmers	16
Xiao Han and Lei Wang: Organic agriculture and biodiversity in China	15
Role of the neo-rural phenomenon and the new peasantry in agroecological transitions: a literature review	15
Framing the CAP reform 2013 in Austria’s agricultural media	15
The new achikumbe elite: food systems transformation in the context of digital platforms use in agriculture in Malawi	15
Intensified rice production negatively impacts plant biodiversity, diet, lifestyle and quality of life: transdisciplinary and gendered research in the Middle Senegal River Valley	15
Make the desert bloom—imaginaries, infrastructure, and water-land entanglement in desert agriculture in Israel	15
Growing behind and beyond bars: an examination of prison gardens and reentry green jobs programs	15
Climate protection or agricultural production site? How political actors frame the future use of German peatlands	14
Motivations, changes and challenges of participating in food-related social innovations and their transformative potential: three cases from Berlin (Germany)	14
Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice	14
Perception and acceptance of robots in dairy farming—a cluster analysis of German citizens	13
Responsible research and innovation in food systems: a critical review of the literature and future research avenues	13
Food insecurity and the covid pandemic: uneven impacts for food bank systems in Europe	13
Something to eat: experiences of food insecurity on the farm	13
Producer and consumer perspectives on supporting and diversifying local food systems in central Iowa	13
Aaron Eddens: Seeding empire: American philanthrocapital and the roots of the green revolution in Africa	12
“Half a flood’s no good”: flooding, viticulture, and hydrosocial terroir in a South Australian wine region	12
Thick critiques, thin solutions: news media coverage of meatpacking plants in the COVID-19 pandemic	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
The art of Buddhist connectivity: Organic rice farming in Thailand	12
The rise of multi-stakeholderism, the power of ultra-processed food corporations, and the implications for global food governance: a network analysis	12
Glimpses of embodied utopias, why Moroccan and Swiss farmers engage in alternative agricultures	12
(Un)intended lock-in: Chile’s organic agriculture law and the possibility of transformation towards more sustainable food systems	12
The seeds are coming home: a rising movement for Indigenous seed rematriation in the United States	12
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 Colombia	11
Engaging with food waste while avoiding stigma: How a consultancy shields hospitality organizations from dirty work associations	11

The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia	11
Rendering quality technical: modern quinoa, modern farmers, and the moral politics of quality standards	11
Books received	11
Ashok Gulati, Kavery Ganguly, Harsh Wardhan, (Eds): Agricultural value chains in India: ensuring competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability, and improved finance	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
“Safer to plant corn and beans”? Navigating the challenges and opportunities of agricultural diversification in the U.S. Corn Belt	11
Operationalizing collective action for crop diversity in-situ management: insights from a decentralized collective design approach	11
Outcomes of international travel on agriculture: agricultural leadership programs create transformative learning and behavior change in farmers and ranchers	11
Public support for producer adoption of soil health practices	11
A buzzword, a “win-win”, or a signal towards the future of agriculture? A critical analysis of regenerative agriculture	10
Alternative Food Networks in Latin America—exploring PGS (Participatory Guarantee Systems) markets and their consumers: a cross-country comparison	10
Worldviews, values and perspectives towards the future of the livestock sector	10
Understanding the values that inform regenerative ranching in the Northern U.S. Great Plains	10
What does it mean to care in industrial agriculture?	10
Food security systems change: a case study from rural, regional, and remote Australia	10
Labour relations and working conditions of workers on smallholder cocoa farms in Ghana	9
Ecological regulation for healthy and sustainable food systems: responding to the global rise of ultra-processed foods	9
From farm to table: uncovering narratives of agency and responsibility for change among actors along agri-food value chains in Germany	9
Utah producers and soil health: digging deeper	9
A preliminary assessment of food policy obstacles in California’s produce recovery networks	9
Regulating antimicrobial resistance: market intermediaries, poultry and the audit lock-in	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	9
The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity: lessons from mothers in Cap-Haitian, Haiti	9
Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women’s autonomy?	9
Q fever as an anthropological prism for revealing how farmers live with microbes	9
Farm households’ social and economic needs and the future of agriculture: introduction to the symposium	9
Dianna Smith and Claire Thompson: Food deserts and food insecurity in the UK: exploring social inequality	9
Reconquer and divide: comparative standard-setting strategies among producer organizations	8
Neo-colonialism in the Polish rural world: CAP approach and the phenomenon of suitcase farmers	8
Livelihood resilience in context of crop booms: insights from Southwest China	8
Agroecological producers shortening food chains during Covid-19: opportunities and challenges in Costa Rica	8
Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: a case study of farmers in Québec, Canada	8
“Organic” rice: different implications from process and product environmental verification approaches in Laos and Thailand	8
Selective, reciprocal and quiet: lessons from rural queer empowerment in community-supported agriculture	8
Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized cropping systems in Georgia (U.S.)	8
Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events	8
When one crisis comes after another: successive shocks, food insecurity, and coastal precarity in the Philippines	8
Vincanne Adams: Glyphosate and the swirl: An agro-industrial chemical on the move	8
Divergent knowledge and perceptions of insects by organic and non-organic farming in the Ecuadorian Andes	7
A digital environmental regulation in agriculture: satellite data, crop farming, and the Nitrate Directive in France	7
Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue	7
Books received	7
Chasing pigs, chasing profits: (De)territorializing organic and free-range pig farming in Norway	7
Exploring diverse food system actor perspectives on gene editing: a systematic review of socio-cultural factors influencing acceptability	7
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 pandemic	7
Books received	7
Correction: With great power comes great responsibility: why ‘safe enough’ is not good enough in debates on new gene technologies	7
Consumer perception and understanding of the risks of antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in farming	7
Ben White: Agriculture and the generation problem	7
Farming with a mission: the case of nonprofit farms	7
Loss of seasonal ranges reshapes transhumant adaptive capacity: Thirty-five years at the US Sheep Experiment Station	7
The bright and the dark side of commercial urban agriculture labeling	6
Relationships of regeneration in Great Plains commodity agriculture	6
Transforming labour around food? the experience of community supported agriculture in Italy	6
Colleen Hammelman, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristin Reynolds (eds.): Radical food geographies. Power, knowledge and resistance	6
Annemarie Mol: Eating in theory	6
Understanding the influence of indigenous values on change in the dairy industry	6
Decolonizing agriculture in the United States: Centering the knowledges of women and people of color to support relational farming practices	6
Who and what gets recognized in digital agriculture: agriculture 4.0 at the intersectionality of (Dis)Ableism, labor, and recognition justice	6
From marginalized to miracle: critical bioregionalism, jungle farming and the move to millets in Karnataka, India	6
Restoring sense out of disorder? Farmers’ changing social identities under big data and algorithms	6
“More than bees and flowers”: understanding public perceptions of biodiversity in the context of food production and consumption	6
The effects of collective trauma on Iowa farmers, their communities, and sustainability outcomes	6
Books received	6
Biocultural heritage of transhumant territories	6
Work in progress: power in transformation to postcapitalist work relations in community–supported agriculture	6
Books received	6
How do coffee farmers engage with digital technologies? A capabilities perspective	6
Books received	6
Transitioning practices of vegetable small-scale actors in Vietnam: an interplay of food safety, labor demand, and soil environment	6