OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Food Security is 8. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Food insecurity among parents of young children in the United States and Australia: focusing on etiology and outcomes	165
The role of mobile banking in coping with food insecurity in Burkina Faso	113
The relationship between accessibility of retail seeds and diet diversity: a multi-level structural equation model applied to ethnic minority farmers in northern Vietnam	63
A method for estimating physical and economic food access at high spatial resolution	55
Changes in school feeding operations during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 139 countries	51
Prediction of household food insecurity levels in Ethiopia: application of deep learning models	45
Food systems thinking unpacked: a scoping review on industrial diets among adolescents in Ghana	44
Fish consumption pathways and food security in an Indonesian fishing community	42
Required informational barriers to accessing groceries from food banks	34
Correction to: Regional heatwave variations in China pose a threat to summer grain yields	33
Understanding the global hunger index and its correlates across districts of india: a spatial analysis	31
The effect of extreme weather events on child nutrition and health	31
Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: how export influences households’ macronutrient consumption in Vietnam	30
It is beautiful: the uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Erik Nordman (2021) The uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Essential lessons for collective action	30
Do online agri-food sellers contribute to food security in Indonesia? A PCA-based composite index and a Tobit approach	29
Strengthening the millet economy: lessons from a South Indian case study	29
Large-scale agricultural investments and local food security – Evidence from a mixed-method case study in Benin	28
An everyday political economy of food insecurity in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone	28
Agricultural crime victimization and food security outcomes among smallholder farmers in rural Tanzania	28
Adoption and disadoption of the improved clay granary for maize storage: evidence from the northern and central regions of Benin	27
E-grocery as a new site of financialization? Financial drivers of the rise and fall of China’s E-grocery sector	27
The unbalanced development among legume species regarding sustainable and healthy agrifood systems in North-America and Europe: focus on food product innovations	27
Combining market and nonmarket food sources provides rural households with more options to achieve better diets in Southern Benin	24
A whole system approach to childhood obesity: how a supportive environment was created in the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom	24
Science for Africa’s future food security: rethinking breeding to adapt to diversified cropping systems	23

A review of the effects of COVID-19 on food waste	23
Patterns of research on food security, 2020–2022	23
Urban agriculture in São Paulo: an analysis from the sociology of public action	22
Retrofitting food and nutrition programmes to curb the global syndemic of undernutrition, obesity and climate change	21
Psychometric evaluation of a modified food security survey scale in the economically deprived population of Hong Kong	20
Pulse consumption patterns, protein intake, and child nutrition outcomes in Central Madagascar	19
Community-based food sovereignty assessments (FSAs): A review	19
Placing resilient local food systems on the municipal agenda: insights from Sweden	18
Complexities of food insecurity and quality of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban, moving towards integrated approaches and well-being enhancement	17
Usefulness and misrepresentation of phone surveys on COVID-19 and food security in Africa	17
The role of farm production diversity in enhancing dietary diversity and food security in Southern Bangladesh	17
Changes and correlates of household food insecurity during COVID-19: a repeated cross-sectional survey of low-income households in peri-urban Peru	17
Effect of use of tsetse repellant collar technology on the farm performance and household welfare of small-scale livestock farmers in Kenya	17
Science for Africa’s future food security: the future of PhD graduates in food security-related research in Africa	17
Effects of conservation farming practices on agro-ecosystem services for sustainable food security in Bangladesh	16
Changes in Nigeria’s enabling environment for nutrition from 2008 to 2019 and challenges for reducing malnutrition	16
A more plant-based diet can boost public health and reduce environmental impact in China	16
Effects of an intervention for a liquefied petroleum gas cook-stove with free fuel on food insecurity and dietary diversity among women and infants: a multi-country randomized controlled trial	16
Women’s empowerment, crop productivity, and food security: Nationally representative panel data analysis in Malawi	15
Triple duty actions to address the global syndemic of undernutrition, obesity and environmental sustainability: a scoping review	15
Food system resilience measurement: principles, framework and caveats	15
Does participation in on-farm demonstrations improve aspirations formation and food security? Evidence from Ghana	15
Food security vulnerability due to trade dependencies on Russia and Ukraine	15
Mapping food accessibility and examining drivers of staple food sources and household food security: insights from Bia West district, Ghana	14
Sustainability challenges in small-scale freshwater catfish (Clarias gariepinus) farming in northern Thailand: profitability, economy of scale, and hedging	14
Vulnerability and resilience among farmers and market actors in local agri-food value chains in the face of COVID-19 disruptions: findings from Uganda and Kenya	14
A Knowledge Agenda for food systems resilience in protracted crisis in the Horn of Africa	14
Navigating food environments for complementary feeding in the drylands of northern Kenya	13
A novel approach to assessing food insecurity for small geographic areas using household living budgets	13
Putting small fish on the table: the underutilized potential of small indigenous fish to improve food and nutrition security in East Africa	13
Too poor to choose? Analyzing food agency in food insecure households in rural Burundi	13
Food insecurity among immigrant populations in the United States	13
Impact of a homegardening intervention on crop diversity: results from a cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh	12
Cultivating prosperity in Rwanda: the impact of high-yield biofortified bean seeds on farmers’ yield and income	12
How does the improvement of farmers' financial literacy affect food production? Analysis of behavior and constraints based on element substitution and planting structure adjustment	12
Food security and livelihoods in protracted crisis: the experience of rural residents in Syria’s war zones	12
Obituary: Peter Scott 1942–2025 co-founder, Food Security	12
Land degradation, fertilizer use, and grazing pressure as determinants of food security in Nigeria	12
Disentangling the Channels of Impact of the Ukraine War on Global Food Markets: An Integrated Scenario Approach	12
The association between crop diversity and children’s dietary diversity: multi-scalar and cross-national comparisons	12
Application of item response theory modelling to measure an aggregate food security access score	11
Fiscal policies alone may be insufficient to reach healthy, sustainable and culturally acceptable diets in Mexico	11
Agricultural commercialisation and food consumption: pathways and trade-offs across four African contexts	11
Wholesalers and the transformation of the “hidden middle” of the aquaculture value chain in Bangladesh	11
Risk attitudes towards climate variation and food crop diversification, and their implications for food security among farm households in Central Region, Ghana	11
Food and nutrition security merits of intercropping maize, sorghum and millet with legumes on small farms in Southern Africa	11
Stories of change in nutrition: lessons from a new generation of studies from Africa, Asia and Europe	10
Local tastes and global flavors: food choice in the context of the nutrition transition in South India	10
Correction to: Consequences of increased farm resilience on food security in Tajikistan	10
Assessing global wheat supply security based on a cascading failure model in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict	10

U.S. Federal Reserve Policies can cause Political instability by raising bread prices*	10
Consequences of increased farm resilience on food security in Tajikistan	10
Correction to: Food choice responses to changes in the price of a staple crop: a discrete choice experiment of maize in rural Malawi	10
Maize storage losses, climate, and climate change in Zambia	10
COVID-19, labor markets and household food security in Egypt: evidence from a generalized structural equation model	10
Contrasting responses of spatiotemporal patterns of cropland to climate change in Northeast China	10
Social and ethnic-racial inequities in the occurrence of food deserts in a Brazilian state capital	10
Applying the ‘Candidacy’ Model to understand access to key nutrition, food & health services in LMIC contexts: a qualitative study in Odisha, India	10
Climate change-driven vulnerability of Mexico regions toward food insecurity	10
COVID-19, food insecurity and dietary diversity of households: Survey evidence from Nigeria	9
Stories of Challenge in South Africa: changes in the enabling environment for nutrition among young children (1994–2021)	9
From subsistence to market-oriented farming: The role of groundwater irrigation in smallholder agriculture in eastern India	9
Food poisoning in a Colombian population: A geospatial analysis	9
Gender dynamics in seed systems: an integrative review of seed promotion interventions in Africa	9
Biofortification versus diversification to fight micronutrient deficiencies: an interdisciplinary review	9
Do social safety net programs enhance household resilience through improved food security and child nutrition in Malawi?	9
Evaluating rational and healthy use options for small pelagic fish species in sub-Saharan Africa	9
Illuminating the global maize trade network: structure, resilience and supply chain security	8
How are higher rice yields associated with dietary outcomes of smallholder farm households of Madagascar?	8
Food systems modelling to evaluate interventions for food and nutrition security in an African urban context	8
Reconciling grain production and environmental costs during rural livelihood transitions: a simulation-based approach in southern China	8
Is there unrecognized potential in neglected livestock species in Sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review of four selected species	8
Correction to: Navigating the humanitarian-development nexus in resilience programming: lessons from escalating crisis in Sahelian West Africa (2017–2020)	8
Climate-conflict dynamics and food insecurity in Niger: the role of income diversification and external support	8
Hierarchical assessment of the environmental trade-offs in global agricultural trade	8
Linking food security, food sovereignty and foodways in urban Southeast Asia: cases from Indonesia and Thailand	8
Where supply and demand meet: how consumer and vendor interactions create a market, a Nigerian example	8