OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Food Security is 11. 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
Resilience of local food systems and links to food security – A review of some important concepts in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks	451
Home gardening and urban agriculture for advancing food and nutritional security in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	251
Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security	246
Global maize production, consumption and trade: trends and R&D implications	224
The future of farming: Who will produce our food?	175
Food system disruption: initial livelihood and dietary effects of COVID-19 on vegetable producers in India	150
Consumer food stockpiling behavior and willingness to pay for food reserves in COVID-19	141
Pollination ecosystem services: A comprehensive review of economic values, research funding and policy actions	117
The contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to the global protein supply	115
COVID-19 and Pacific food system resilience: opportunities to build a robust response	113
Mapping disruption and resilience mechanisms in food systems	107
The impact of COVID-19 related ‘stay-at-home’ restrictions on food prices in Europe: findings from a preliminary analysis	103
Key indicators for monitoring food system disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from Bangladesh towards effective response	86
Food waste in Italian households during the Covid-19 pandemic: a self-reporting approach	84
How Indian agriculture should change after COVID-19	77
Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options?	76
Food security vulnerability due to trade dependencies on Russia and Ukraine	70
Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India	69
“Informal” food traders and food security: experiences from the Covid-19 response in South Africa	67
Feeding the food insecure in Britain: learning from the 2020 COVID-19 crisis	55
Resilient agri-food systems for nutrition amidst COVID-19: evidence and lessons from food-based approaches to overcome micronutrient deficiency and rebuild livelihoods after crises	55
How food systems change (or not): governance implications for system transformation processes	51
Why food insecurity persists in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of existing evidence	50
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural production, livelihoods, and food security in India: baseline results of a phone survey	49
Pandemics and food systems - towards a proactive food safety approach to disease prevention & management	46

Nutrition transition in Vietnam: changing food supply, food prices, household expenditure, diet and nutrition outcomes	46
Urbanisation as driver of food system transformation and opportunities for rural livelihoods	44
Towards food systems transformation—five paradigm shifts for healthy, inclusive and sustainable food systems	43
Analysis and vulnerability of the international wheat trade network	40
Food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a survey of low-income Americans	38
Rapid tool based on a food environment typology framework for evaluating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on food system resilience	38
Adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices and differentiated nutritional outcome among rural households: a case of Punjab province, Pakistan	37
Informal food chains and agrobiodiversity need strengthening—not weakening—to address food security amidst the COVID-19 crisis in South America	35
Organic aquaculture productivity, environmental sustainability, and food security: insights from organic agriculture	33
Wither the self-sufficiency illusion? Food security in Arab Gulf States and the impact of COVID-19	32
Addressing the triple burden of malnutrition in the time of COVID-19 and climate change in Small Island Developing States: what role for improved local food production?	32
Reverse thinking: taking a healthy diet perspective towards food systems transformations	32
Farm production diversity and its association with dietary diversity in Kenya	29
Imperfect food markets in times of crisis: economic consequences of supply chain disruptions and fragmentation for local market power and urban vulnerability	29
Cross-national analysis of food security drivers: comparing results based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale and Global Food Security Index	28
Impacts of farmer field schools in the human, social, natural and financial domain: a qualitative review	28
Empirical studies of factors associated with child malnutrition: highlighting the evidence about climate and conflict shocks	28
Pathogens which threaten food security: Phytophthora infestans, the potato late blight pathogen	27
Salinity and food security in southwest coastal Bangladesh: impacts on household food production and strategies for adaptation	27
Quiet Revolution by SMEs in the midstream of value chains in developing regions: wholesale markets, wholesalers, logistics, and processing	26
Challenges and opportunities for enhancing food security and greenhouse gas mitigation in smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa. A review	25
The COVID19 pandemic crisis and the relevance of a farm-system-for-nutrition approach	24
Assuring food security in Singapore, a small island state facing COVID-19	24
The decreasing area of hybrid rice production in China: causes and potential effects on Chinese rice self-sufficiency	24
Fish as a source of (micro)nutrients to combat hidden hunger in Zambia	23
Contribution of traditional fermented foods to food systems transformation: value addition and inclusive entrepreneurship	23
Adaptive strategies enhance smallholders’ livelihood resilience in Bihar, India	23
COVID-19 and the food system: setback or opportunity for gender equality?	22
Transferring diversity of goat grass to farmers’ fields through the development of synthetic hexaploid wheat	22
“The street is ours”. A comparative analysis of street trading, Covid-19 and new street geographies in Harare, Zimbabwe and Kisumu, Kenya	22
Mapping the production-consumption gap of an urban food system: an empirical case study of food security and resilience	21
Food security and food quality among vanilla farmers in Madagascar: the role of contract farming and livestock keeping	21
COVID-19, food insecurity and dietary diversity of households: Survey evidence from Nigeria	21
Valuing genebanks	21
Do not transform food systems on the backs of the rural poor	21
Food systems and rural wellbeing: challenges and opportunities	20
How trade can drive inclusive and sustainable food system outcomes in food deficit low-income countries	19
Agricultural seasonality, market access, and food security in Sierra Leone	19
An evidence-based systematic review on farmers’ adaptation strategies in India	19
From garden to store: local perspectives of changing food and nutrition security in a Pacific Island country	19
Dietary agrobiodiversity for improved nutrition and health outcomes within a transitioning indigenous Solomon Island food system	18
Enabling trade across borders and food security in Africa	18
Impacts of China’s bioethanol policy on the global maize market: a partial equilibrium analysis to 2030	18
Explaining the impact of agroecology on farm-level transitions to food security in Malawi	18
COVID-19 in the Greater Mekong Subregion: how resilient are rural households?	18
Food insecurity related to agricultural practices and household characteristics in rural communities of northeast Madagascar	17
Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food Systems in low and Middle Income Countries	17
Farmed animal production in tropical circular food systems	17
Can household dietary diversity inform about nutrient adequacy? Lessons from a food systems analysis in Ethiopia	17
Conserving genetic resources for agriculture: economic implications of emerging science	17

Driving factors of food safety standards in India: learning from street-food vendors’ behaviour and attitude	17
10 recommendations for African governments to ensure food security for poor and vulnerable populations during COVID-19	16
Homegarden diversity and food security in southern Mexico	16
Fire lines as fault lines: increased trade barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic further shatter the global food system	16
A review of Ghana’s planting for food and jobs program: implementation, impacts, benefits, and costs	16
Climate change and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa: empirical evidence from Swaziland	16
The effect of large-scale agricultural investments on household food security in Madagascar	16
Africa’s evolving vegetable seed sector: status, policy options and lessons from Asia	16
Living income benchmarking of rural households in low-income countries	16
The tale of taro leaf blight: a global effort to safeguard the genetic diversity of taro in the Pacific	15
Measuring disaggregate level food insecurity via multivariate small area modelling: evidence from rural districts of Uttar Pradesh, India	15
Revisiting food security in 2021: an overview of the past year	15
Women’s empowerment and gender equality in agricultural value chains: evidence from four countries in Asia and Africa	14
Unpacking the value of traditional African vegetables for food and nutrition security	14
COVID-19 pandemic and agriculture in Romania: effects on agricultural systems, compliance with restrictions and relations with authorities	14
A consumption-oriented approach to measuring regional food self-sufficiency	13
Institutional approaches for plant health provision as a collective action problem	13
Linkages between dietary diversity and indicators of agricultural biodiversity in Burkina Faso	13
Multiple pathways towards achieving a living income for different types of smallholder tree-crop commodity farmers	12
Is food insecurity a problem among the elderly in Sharpeville, South Africa?	12
Intra-household decision-making, production diversity, and dietary quality: a panel data analysis of Ethiopian rural households	12
Changing rice cropping patterns and their impact on food security in southern China	12
A review of the effects of COVID-19 on food waste	12
Coping Behaviours and the concept of Time Poverty: a review of perceived social and health outcomes of food insecurity on women and children	12
Sustainable management of transboundary pests requires holistic and inclusive solutions	11
Does subsidizing fertilizer contribute to the diet quality of farm women? Evidence from rural Mali	11
Inequities in the urban food environment of a Brazilian city	11
Exploring climate change adaptation practices and household food security in the Middle Eastern context: a case of small family farms in Central Bekaa, Lebanon	11
Food security under water scarcity: a comparative analysis of Egypt and Jordan	11
Revisiting Rwanda’s agricultural intensification policy: benefits of embracing farmer heterogeneity and crop-livestock integration strategies	11
The effect of bureaucratic corruption on household food insecurity: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	11
Beyond subsistence: the aggregate contribution of campesinos to the supply and conservation of native maize across Mexico	11
Cocoa eats the food: expansion of cocoa into food croplands in the Juabeso District, Ghana	11
Disrupted food systems in the WHO European region – a threat or opportunity for healthy and sustainable food and nutrition?	11
One size doesn’t fit all: regional differences in priorities for food system transformation	11
The geography of agricultural input markets in rural Tanzania	11
Does irrigation improve household’s food security? The case of Koga irrigation development project in northern Ethiopia	11