OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability is 3. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Food security and climate-smart agriculture in the lower Mekong basin of Southeast Asia: evaluating impacts of system of rice intensification with special reference to rainfed agriculture	33
Embedding digital agriculture into sustainable Australian food systems: pathways and pitfalls to value creation	33
Conservation Agriculture: factors and drivers of adoption and scalable innovative practices in Indo-Gangetic plains of India– a review	30
Adoption by adaptation: moving from Conservation Agriculture to conservation practices	30
Do farmers care about pollinators? A cross-site comparison of farmers’ perceptions, knowledge, and management practices for pollinator-dependent crops	28
The effects of agroecological farming systems on smallholder livelihoods: a case study on push–pull system from Western Kenya	25
Zero-tillage wheat provides stable yield and economic benefits under diverse growing season climates in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains	24
Changing agricultural stubble burning practices in the Indo-Gangetic plains: is the Happy Seeder a profitable alternative?	23
Supporting smallholders’ decision making: managing trade-offs and synergies for sustainable agricultural intensification	22
Do voluntary certification standards improve yields and wellbeing? Evidence from oil palm and cocoa smallholders in Ghana	22
Farmers’ Organizations as innovation intermediaries for agroecological innovations in Burkina Faso	22
Four critical conditions for agroecological transitions in Europe	17
Sustainable agricultural intensification and gender-biased land tenure systems: an exploration and conceptualization of interactions	16
Scalability of Adaptation strategies to drought stress: the case of drought tolerant maize varieties in Kenya	15
Understanding and informing decisions on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa	15
No-till agriculture and the deception of sustainability in Brazil	14
The benefits and challenges of participating in Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) initiatives following institutional formalization in Chile	14
Rice farmers adapting to drought in the Philippines	14
How agroecological rice intensification can assist in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals	14
Amaranth production and consumption in South Africa: the challenges of sustainability for food and nutrition security	14
Forget opinion leaders: the role of social network brokers in the adoption of innovative farming practices in North-western Cambodia	14
Does mixing livestock farming enterprises improve farm and product sustainability?	13
Growing maize landraces in industrialized countries: from the search for seeds to the emergence of new practices and values	13
Adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies for vegetable production in rural Tanzania: trade-offs, complementarities and diffusion	13
Farmer research networks in principle and practice	12

Tailoring legume seed markets for smallholder farmers in Africa	12
Participatory system of guarantees – PSG of the Red de Mercados Agroecológicos de Bogotá Región RMABR. A contribution to the sustainability of agroecological producers and markets	12
Trade-offs, synergies and acceptability of climate smart agricultural practices by smallholder farmers in rural Ghana	12
Two enabling factors for farmer-driven pollinator protection in low- and middle-income countries	12
Strengthening Conservation Agriculture innovation systems in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from a stakeholder analysis	12
Research perspectives on paddy field systems: ecological functions and environmental impacts	12
Theory, Practice and Challenges of Agroecology in India	12
Farmers’ attitudes vs. government supervision: which one has a more significant impact on farmers’ pesticide use in China?	11
Trajectories of cropping system intensification under changing environment in south-west coastal Bangladesh	11
Social dimensions of multifunctional agriculture in Europe - towards an interdisciplinary framework	11
Sustainability of agroecological interventions in small scale farming systems in the Western Highlands of Guatemala	11
Assessing the sustainability of agricultural production - a cross-sectoral comparison of the blackberry, tomato and tree tomato sectors in Ecuador	11
Factors affecting smallholder adoption of adaptation and coping measures to deal with rainfall variability	10
Sustainable farmers, deficient State? Self-reported agricultural sustainability in the Argentine Chaco region	10
Seeds of resilience: the contribution of commons-based plant breeding and seed production to the social-ecological resilience of the agricultural sector	10
Food systems in transition: conceptualizing sustainable food entrepreneurship	10
Farmers’ knowledge and perceptions on fruit flies and willingness to pay for a fruit fly integrated pest management strategy in Gamo Gofa zone, Ethiopia	10
The effects of combined digital and human advisory services on reducing nitrogen fertilizer use: lessons from China’s national research programs on low carbon agriculture	9
COVID 19: Lets act now: the urgent need for upscaling agroecology in Uganda (2020)	9
Impacts of non-agricultural livelihood transformation of smallholder farmers on agricultural system in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	9
Competing fields in sustainable agriculture: on farmer-expert understandings of good farming, good farmers and organic farming	9
Temperature effect on Brazilian soybean yields, and farmers’ responses	9
Participatory seed projects and agroecological landscape knowledge in Central America	9
Effect of agricultural extension services in the post-reform era since the mid-2000s on pesticide use in China: evidence from rice production	9
Impact of human capital on technical efficiency in sustainable food crop production: a meta-analysis	9
Assessment of sustainable land use: linking land management practices to sustainable land use indicators	9
Barriers to sustainable intensification: overlooked disconnects between agricultural extension and farmer practice in maize-legume cropping systems in Tanzania	9
Looking into the future of organic tea production and sustainable farming: a systematic review	9
Measuring sustainability performance of rice cultivation in Thailand using Sustainable Rice Platform indicators	9
Can traders help farmers transition towards more sustainable maize based farming systems? Evidence from the Lao-Vietnamese border	9
Hand weeding tools in vegetable production systems: an agronomic, ergonomic and economic evaluation	8
Interactions between food and nutrition security and the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability in small-scale farms: evidence from a simultaneous confirmatory factor analysis i	8
The coffee value chain and its transition to sustainability in Brazil and Colombia from innovation system approach	8
Enhancing wheat production and food security in Sudan through scaling up improved technologies using innovation platforms	8
Bringing sustainable agricultural intensification practices and technologies to scale through campaign-based extension approaches: lessons from Africa Soil Health Consortium	8
Economics of alternative models of organic farming: empirical evidences from zero budget natural farming and scientific organic farming in West Bengal, India	8
A gendered ecosystem services approach to identify novel and locally-relevant strategies for jointly improving food security, nutrition, and conservation in the Barotse Floodplain	8
Sustainable rice production in Myanmar impacts on food security and livelihood changes	8
Gender- and youth-sensitive data collection tools to support decision making for inclusive sustainable agricultural intensification	8
Soil health and gender: why and how to identify the linkages	7
Strategies for expansive learning in sustainable farming initiatives: a CHAT analysis of a Dutch case	7
Integrated crop-livestock farming offers a solution to soil fertility mining in semi-arid Kenya: evidence from Marsabit County	7
Are farmer producer companies ready to behave as business entities? Insights from the vegetable-based farmer companies in West Bengal, India	7
The design and implementation of a distributed agricultural service system for smallholder farmers in China	7
Farmer collectives for more effective agri-environmental schemes? An assessment framework based on the concept of ‘professionalization’	7
Opportunities and constraints for adoption of maize-legume mixed cropping systems in Laos	7
Beyond diffusion to sustained adoption of innovation: A case of smallholder poultry development in sub-Saharan Africa	7
Predictable patterns of unsustainable intensification	6
Bringing evidence to bear for negotiating tradeoffs in sustainable agricultural intensification using a structured stakeholder engagement process	6
More than meat: the role of pigs in Timorese culture and the household economy	6

Soil nutrient management: fueling agroecosystem sustainability	6
Interactive tool for farmers to diversify high-latitude cereal-dominated crop rotations	6
Factors affecting sustainable agricultural intensification in Burkina Faso	6
Contribution, prospects and trends of livestock production in sub-Saharan Africa: a review	6
Farmers’ intention towards intercropping adoption: the role of socioeconomic and behavioural drivers	5
Agriculture extensification and associated socio-ecological trade-offs in smallholder farming systems of Zambia	5
Continuing cereals research for sustainable health and well-being	5
Participatory multicriteria assessment of maize cropping systems in the context of family farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado	5
Overcoming agricultural sustainability challenges in water-limited environments through soil health and water conservation: insights from the Ogallala Aquifer Region, USA	5
Farmers’ profiles and attitudes towards the implementation of rainwater harvesting systems in intensive agriculture	5
Measuring household legume cultivation intensity in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Cambodian rice farmers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) regarding insect pest management and pesticide use	5
The Top 100 questions for the sustainable intensification of agriculture in India’s rainfed drylands	5
Enterprise mix diversification: an option for ecologically sustainable food and nutritional security of small holders in Indo-Gangetic plains	5
Production efficiency and the role of collective actions among irrigated rice farms in Northern Thailand.	5
Drivers and barriers in farmers’ adoption of vermicomposting as keys for sustainable agricultural waste management	5
Smallholder commercialization and climate change: a simulation game for teff in South Wollo, Ethiopia	5
A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil	5
Designing sustainable pathways for the livestock sector: the example of Atsbi, Ethiopia and Bama, Burkina Faso	5
Perception of the impacts of climate and environmental variability on water availability, irrigation and farming systems: a study in rural households of Awash River Basin, Ethiopia	4
Improving sustainable agriculture promotion: an explorative analysis of NRCS assistance programs and farmer perspectives	4
Strengthening decision-making on sustainable agricultural intensification through multi-stakeholder social learning in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Water and economic productivity using different planting and irrigation methods under dry and wet seasons for wheat	4
Risk sharing, benefit distribution and cooperation longevity: sustainable development of dairy farmer cooperatives in China	4
Looking backward to find a path forward for the sustainable flow of suitable potato varieties to Eritrean potato farmers	4
Sweet chestnut and agricultural development: a farmers’ perspective for Northern Greece	4
Capacity building towards agricultural sustainability in the Maldives: does the voice of the Maldivian farmer need to be amplified in planning agricultural interventions?	4
Manure matters: prospects for regional banana-livestock integration for sustainable intensification in South-West Uganda	4
Farmers’ knowledge and practices on pollination and insecticide use in cocoa farming in Ghana	4
Lessons on enabling African smallholder farmers, especially women and youth, to benefit from sustainable agricultural intensification	4
Cosmetic pesticide use: quantifying use and its policy implications in California, USA	4
The implementation process of agriculture adaptation instruments to climate change. The invisibilization of European climate policy goals in French West indies’ banana Chain	4
Can mechanized pesticide application help reduce pesticide use and increase crop yield? Evidence from rice farmers in Jiangsu province, China	4
Application of innovation platforms to catalyse adoption of conservation agriculture practices in South Asia	4
Social categories and agency within a Conservation Agriculture framework in Laikipia, Kenya	4
How agro-environmental and climate measures are affecting farming system performances in Guadeloupe?: Lessons for the design of effective climate change policies	4
Vegetable cultivation as a diversification option for fruit farmers in the Goulburn Valley, Australia	4
Sustainable farmer-to-farmer extension – the experiences of private service providers in Zambia	4
Exchange and experimentation: community seed banks strengthen farmers’ seed systems in Northern Malawi	4
Climate smart crop-livestock integrated farming as a sustainable agricultural strategy for humid tropical islands	3
Drivers and challenges of large-scale conversion policies to organic and agro-chemical free agriculture in South Asia	3
Indicator-based analysis of organic farming in Romania. Regional spatial patterns	3
Multidimensional and multiscale assessment of agroecological transitions. A review	3
Innovation systems for controlled-environment food production in urban contexts: a dynamic case study analysis of combined plant, fish and insect production in Berlin	3
Rising labour costs and the future of rubber intercropping in China	3
The use of pre-crop values to improve farm performance: the case of dairy farms in southwest Finland	3
Creole goats in Latin America and the Caribbean: a priceless resource to ensure the well-being of rural communities	3
Agro-food quality certification, agricultural organizations, and farm performance: evidence from vegetable farmers in China	3
Laws and regulations enabling and restricting Africa’s vegetable seed sector	3
Transition towards sustainable yak farming in Bhutan: stakeholders’ viewpoints and recommendations for future steps	3
Farmers’ adaptation to climate change and crop yield: a case of Amuru and Apac districts of Northern Uganda	3
Making decisions about agroecological innovations: perspectives from members of farmers’ organizations in Burkina Faso	3
Do attributes of happy seeder technology influence its adoption speed? An investigation using duration analysis in Northern India	3
Challenges of the Participatory Guarantee System of the network of agroecological markets of Bogota-Region, as a strategy for certification and promotion of agroecology	3