OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability is 9. 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
When local customs meet the market: an analysis of coffee value chain in Tebat Benawa customary community, Indonesia	46
Innovation systems for controlled-environment food production in urban contexts: a dynamic case study analysis of combined plant, fish and insect production in Berlin	38
Edible weeds and food and nutrition security in the face of the herbicide revolution. A case study from Zambia	36
Laws and regulations enabling and restricting Africa’s vegetable seed sector	28
Opportunities and limitations to social learning for sustainability: empirical insights from a participatory approach to community-based resource management in the Philippines	22
Evaluation of sustainability in strawberry crops production under greenhouse and open-field systems in the Andes	22
Food systems in transition: conceptualizing sustainable food entrepreneurship	22
Organizational innovations and access to sustainable finance in agriculture: the case of Shea farmers in Ghana	21
The politics of defining maladaptation: enduring contestations over three (mal)adaptive water projects in France, Spain and South Africa	20
Bridging the gap in agricultural innovation research: a systematic review of push–pull biocontrol technology in sub-Saharan Africa	19
Food loss and waste in community-supported agriculture in the region of Leipzig, Germany	18
Creole goats in Latin America and the Caribbean: a priceless resource to ensure the well-being of rural communities	18
Making decisions about agroecological innovations: perspectives from members of farmers’ organizations in Burkina Faso	18
The impact of farm size on sustainability of beef cattle farms: A case study of the Samsun province, Turkey	17
Necessity as a driver in bending agricultural gender norms in the Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia	17
Changes in crop mix and the effects on agricultural carbon emissions in China	16
Assessing the effectiveness of cover crops on ecosystem services: a review of the benefits, challenges, and trade-offs	16
Impact of weather index crop insurance on smallholder farmers’ multidimensional food security: evidence from Ethiopia	15
Farmers’ profiles and attitudes towards the implementation of rainwater harvesting systems in intensive agriculture	15
Farmers’ knowledge and practices on pollination and insecticide use in cocoa farming in Ghana	15
Green or roasted coffee? How a collective of organic producers challenges the quality construction by overseeing quality attributes, relational approaches and knowledge	15
Assessment of socioeconomic and ecological impacts on integrated rice cultivation in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Saffron growing in Italy: a sustainable secondary activity for farms in hilly and sub-mountain areas	14
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	14
Farmer research networks in principle and practice	14

The role of responsive heterogeneity in sub-Saharan smallholder farming sustainability: socio-economic and biophysical determinants of mineral and organic fertilizers used in South Western Burkina Fas	14
Local climate change policy and rural development in Colombia’s post-peace agreements context	13
Revealing the import dilemma and attributing factors to Indonesia’s inability to achieve soybean self-sufficiency: a bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review	13
Farmer experiences with goat raising in Lao PDR: implications for improving husbandry and sustaining viable systems	13
Mediterranean farmers’ understandings of ‘good soil management’ and ‘good farmer’ identity in the context of conservation agriculture	13
Spatial-temporal patterns of cultivated land expansion and intensification in Africa from 2000 to 2020	13
Motivations for women’s participation in urban agriculture: a multivariate probit model analysis	12
A systematic review on the impact of incentives on the adoption of conservation agriculture: new guidelines for policymakers and researchers	11
Environmental impact of agricultural sprayers used in Japanese rice farming	11
Measuring sustainability performance of rice cultivation in Thailand using Sustainable Rice Platform indicators	11
The implementation process of agriculture adaptation instruments to climate change. The invisibilization of European climate policy goals in French West indies’ banana Chain	11
Effects of land recuperation on farmers’ social capital: a Chinese field analysis	11
How channels of knowledge acquisition affect farmers’ adoption of green agricultural technologies: evidence from Hubei province, China	11
Predictable patterns of unsustainable intensification	11
Potential impact of scaling adaptation strategies for drought stress: a case of drought-tolerant maize varieties in Tanzania	11
Spatiotemporal analysis of rainfall and temperature variability and trends for climate resilient maize farming system in major agroecology zones of northwest Ethiopia	10
Sustainable performance of French bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivation, a livelihood component in Eastern Himalayan Region	10
Cambodian rice farmers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) regarding insect pest management and pesticide use	10
Eco-efficiency and technical efficiency of different integrated farming systems in eastern India	10
Trajectories of cropping system intensification under changing environment in south-west coastal Bangladesh	10
Who claims the rights to livestock? Gendered patterns of asset holdings in smallholder households in Uganda	10
The association of farmers’ cognition, intention and behaviour towards sustainable intensification of cultivated land use in Shandong Province, China	10
An optimization model minimizing costs of fertilizer application in Flemish horticulture	10
Multidimensional and multiscale assessment of agroecological transitions. A review	9
Sustainable intensification technologies and farm performance: evidence from smallholder sorghum farmers in Nigeria	9
Adaptive cycle and outcome response of farmers’ livelihoods under the background of rural transformation: a case study from the arid northwest region of China	9
Influence of fertilizer rates, planting density and light transmittance on yield and quality of P. cyrtonema	9
Indicator-based analysis of organic farming in Romania. Regional spatial patterns	9
Integrated emergy and economic evaluation of different planting systems in China: implications for coordinating poverty alleviation and rural revitalization	9