Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Papers
(The median citation count of Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
ICT4Agroecology part II: outcomes for maize production systems54
Soil hydraulic arrangement and agro-ecological practices in organic rotations: effects on crop performance, soil properties and carbon balance43
Socioeconomic sustainability of agroecological farming: a quantitative analysis of cucurbit crop production in Eastern Central Tanzania35
Manure contribution to rural livelihoods at farm and landscape levels: a systemic approach in semi-arid Central Tunisia26
From learner to leader: exploring learning, motivations, and roles of regenerative grazing mentors26
Ethnobiological survey to determine the link between health benefits and qualities of Maasai traditional food system in Monduli, Arusha, Tanzania21
Ecosystem services from smallholder dairy based integrated farming system vis-a-vis double cropping21
Optimizing a traditional practice of soil fertilization for cassava cultivation in the Brazilian Amazonia20
Which dimensions of livestock farming systems shape social interactions around a farm? The case of two farms valorizing animal domestic biodiversity16
What contribution of agroecology to job creation in sub-Saharan Africa? The case of horticulture in the Niayes, Senegal15
Knowledge of social technologies by rural extension workers in Brazil15
Resurrecting sustainable farming in India’s Granary: current practices, challenges and solutions14
Sustainable intensification through double-cropping and plant-based fertilization: production and plant-soil nitrogen interactions in a 5-year crop rotation of organic vegetables14
Comprehensive impacts of diversified cropping on soil health and sustainability14
From diverse foods to hybrid rice: Agroecology’s retreat in an Ifugao village13
Adaptive multi-paddock grazing and wellbeing: uptake, management practices and mindset among Canadian beef producers13
The incidence of cultural practices for managing Drosophila suzukii in raspberry farms: a case study from northwestern Patagonia13
Agroecology in the US Heartland12
Balancing nature and agriculture12
Food Systems and climate crisis on the table at the COP 28 negotiations, but substantive change is off the menu thus far12
The ‘inner’ dimension of Dutch farmers’ trajectories of change: drivers, triggers and turning points for sustained agroecological practices12
Assessing the contribution of spontaneous vegetation to carbon storage and biodiversity in a vineyard of Argentina11
Women’s associations in Cotopaxi, Ecuador: from rights to agroecological markets10
Spaces of sustainable transformation at territorial level: an analysis of biodistricts and their role for agroecological transitions10
Assessing what food policies lead to on the ground: exploring opportunities and challenges of the MUFPP indicator framework10
Exploring the role of a social carrier in advancing agroecology and territorial autonomy10
A review of theoretical frameworks of food system governance, and the search for food system sustainability10
Can public food procurement drive agroecological transitions? Pathways and barriers to sustainable food procurement in higher education institutions in Spain9
Codesigning sustainable land uses: framing participatory methods for research and development projects9
The political economy of contrasting agroecologies: agrarian movements and agricultural research institutions envisioning alternatives9
Advancing sustainable agriculture for goal 2: zero hunger - a comprehensive overview of practices, policies, and technologies9
Organizing sustainable and fair agri-food systems: exploring the role of north-north alternative food networks in the European Union9
Agricultural productivism, cosmopolitan plant-breeding, and the severed roots of agroecological thought9
Embedding global sustainable development goals in local agroecology initiatives: experiences from China9
Typology and social network of grassroots initiatives that promote agroecology in Mexico9
‘I lost my job suddenly, but I was prepared’: the significance of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Benin City, Nigeria8
Moving Africa from food security to food sovereignty8
Policies and development models for “sustainable” agriculture in Tunisia an “agroecological transition” in question8
Agroecological transitions during COVID-19: evidence from Kerala, India8
Participatory certifications for the sustainability transition of food systems in Costa Rica: barriers and opportunities for scaling out8
Agroecology and back-to-land migration in Turkey: asset or obstacle?8
Production autonomy and sustainability. On the conventionalization of Mediterranean organic livestock8
Changing the paradigm of science with agroecology7
Agricultural land and water are up for grabs7
Groundwater overdrafting: a looming crisis7
Cladosporium cladosporioides for disease control and defense response induction in upland rice grown under an agroecological system7
The community contributions of urban farms in Singapore7
Exploring the relationship between tree diversity and carbon storage in aboveground biomass of coffee agroforestry systems in southern Manabí, Ecuador7
Changing the food system narrative7
Participatory action research with wheat landrace producers and community supported agriculture groups; a case from Turkey6
Agroecological transitions to sustainability and biosphere reserves6
“This Feminism is Transformative, Rebellious and Autonomous”: inside struggles to shape the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment6
Campesino a Campesino (peasant to peasant) processes versus conventional extension: a comparative model to examine agroecological scaling6
Subtle agroecologies: farming with the hidden half of nature5
Agroecology in a changing climate5
Transitioning to agroecology promotes mutualistic fungi while reducing antagonists in lettuce roots5
Value created for small-scale farmers in an agroecology movement in the Eastern cape region of South Africa: an application of the value creation framework5
Identification of soil properties associated with the peasant perception of the suitability of the land for growing organic coffee: the case of traditional agriculture in the “Mixteca Alta” mountains 5
Understanding farmer knowledge of soil and soil management: a case study of 13 organic farms in an agricultural landscape of northern California5
The need for ground-up transitions: exploring the knowledge politics of agroecology in Gujarat, India5
Evolving local agrifood initiatives within a territorial agrifood system: the case of Prato Province, Italy5
On techno-fixes in the era of crises: genomic interventions in food crops5
Gender, agroecology and local markets at São José de Mipibu in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil5
Participatory future visions of collaborative agroecological farmer-pastoralist systems in Tanzania5
On-farm compost and parsley residues extract use on organic fennel crop to improve agronomic performance and environmental sustainability5
Are we listening to the bees?5
Atmospheric accumulation of methane from emissions by cattle and oil and gas production4
Ecological complexity and avoiding pest resurgence: intuitions from mathematical ecology4
Organic farmers face persistent barriers to adopting diversification practices in California’s Central Coast4
Crop diversification in southwest coastal Bangladesh: insights into farming adaptation4
Redesign the agroecosystem through biodiversity: revising concepts and integrating visions4
Better performance of organic than conventional tomato varieties in single and mixed cropping4
The role of home gardens in empowering minority women and improving food and nutrition insecurity: a case of Mbororo community in Cameroon’s Northwest region4
Soil quality and biological and economic efficiency of intercropping in the Brazilian semi-arid region4
Agroecology as a new frame of reference for French agricultural policy? Insights from a lexicometric analysis of policy documents4
Agroecological approach in organic greenhouse vegetable systems: weed communities and functional traits dynamics4
Managing agroforestry transitions in a rapidly changing climate4
Moving toward a decolonial and intersectional notion of justice for socio-ecological problems: the urban agroecology of the Buckets Revolution4
Co-creating a common language for an agroecological transition through local food governance: lessons learned from discussion and practice in Mashue, Los Ríos, Chile4
Exploring crop maturity times as a conservation tool for improving resilience to human-elephant conflict: elephant crop-raiding4
Estimating economic benefits of cover cropping on carbon and nitrogen storage on organic farms4
Unpacking the agroclimatic challenges and determinants of sweetpotato seed conservation and multiplication strategies by smallholder farmers in Southern Ethiopia4
Sustainable harvesting of medicinal plants: balancing therapeutic benefits with environmental conservation4
Ecosystem services related with Opuntia ficus-indica (prickly pear cactus): a review of challenges and opportunities4
The leafy greens of India - their diversity, pattern of consumption, and overriding implication on food and nutrition security4
Towards Sustainable Food Consumption: Emerging Tensions Behind the Plate in a Colombian University Community4
Can we feed the world without destroying it?4
Does cocoa certification influence vegetation cover and tree cover loss? A case study from Sulawesi, Indonesia3
Reviewers for Volume 48, 20243
Irrigation and agroecology: a scientific mismatch? A literature review3
‘With agroecology, we can defend ourselves’: examining campesino resilience and economic solidarity during pandemic-era economic shock in Guatemala3
Exploring opportunities and constraints of a certification scheme for regenerative agricultural practice3
Is transdisciplinarity an achievable ideal? Lessons from our experience3
The interdependence between collective practices and the green governance of an agroecology network3
Global challenges and local beekeeping practices: a case study of the beekeeping group “20 de noviembre” in the municipality of Emiliano Zapata, Chiapas3
Investigating soil health and resilience in small-scale agroecosystems of Mount-Lebanon3
Why is ecological diversity important?3
Looking beyond appearances: facing contradictions to “scale in” agroecology within social movements3
Why is there a food crisis?3
Mainstreaming gender in agroecology: coffee cropping systems in Veracruz, Mexico3
Rethinking alternative food networks: unpacking key attributes and overlapping concepts3
Key narratives around agroecological transitions. A systematic literature review of the current debate3
Reviewers for Volume 47, 20233
Exploring the combination of agroecological and conventional farming practices through the hybrid farming concept3
School canteens and public policies for the scaling up of agroecology (The experience of the Eco- School Canteen Programme in the Canary Islands)3
Strategies for feeding tilapia in smallholder aquaculture systems: a study of aquaculture feed access and availability in two districts of Northern Province, Zambia3
Understanding farmers’ adoption of diversified crop rotations in South Dakota, USA: an examination of the roles of sense of place and social responsibility3
New leadership for the agroecology movement3
Local food system resilience in the context of shocks and crises: vulnerabilities and responses of agroecology-based farmers in Peru, Germany, and the United States2
Teaching agroecology: preparing students for navigating uncharted territory2
How much fossil fuels are there in our food chains?2
The challenges for alternative food networks as markets grow2
Rethinking the liberation of China’s seed market: a comparative study of China’s regulatory frameworks with EU and US2
Agroecology-oriented food redistribution amid a pandemic: contested local governance arrangements for sustainable food security2
Incidence of agroecological-based practices in urban vegetable gardens: effect on crop diversity and production levels2
Farmer movement oversight of the Mexican Government’s scaled-up fertilizer program2
Agroecological farmer perceptions and opinions towards pest management and biodiversity in the Argentine Pampa region2
Correlates of yield, fecundity and survival of a wild harvested Cyclopia intermedia (honeybush) population2
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis2
Agroecology: the science and art of building sustainable agri-food systems. A case study from Costa Rica2
Productive efficiency of multiple cropping systems: further evidence of the effect of planting design2
Youth-led community supported agriculture in urban area: practice, challenges, and sustainability2
Building an agroecological model to understand the effects of agrochemical subsidies on farmer decisions2
Transdisciplinary and systemic construction of a framework for assessing the sustainability of alternative food networks in Mexico City2
Evidence of agroecology’s contribution to mitigation, adaptation, and resilience under climate variability and change in Latin America2
Evaluating agroforestry systems for sustainable land management and climate resilience in Siddipet District, central agroclimatic zone, Telangana, India2
Climate impact reduction potential of agroecology: a case study of traditional Andalusian recipes (Spain)2
Maize experiment in a traditional Zuni agroecosystem: nutrient composition2
Women in agroecology: inclusion, exclusion, and empowerment in Peru2
Is there an agroecology movement in the USA?2
Ecological-economics of agroecological systems in the Brazilian semiarid region2
ICT4Agroecology part I: outcomes for cassava production system2
Local is our future BR2
Optimization of hatchability and survivability traits of indigenous duck managed under backyard farming system2
Climate change and shifting land-use: Consequences for smallholder agroforestry systems and rural livelihoods in the southwest Ethiopian Highlands1
Multidimensional performance of periurban horticulture: assessing agroecological transition and soil health1
Systemic change or input substitution? The impact of the Healthy Soils Program on agroecological transitions within California food systems1
Public policies for the strengthening of urban and peri-urban agriculture in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)1
Agroecological transition and amplification in San Pablo Huitzo, Oaxaca: preliminary findings1
Gathering a bountiful harvest: the impacts of cultural ecosystem service experiences on management practices and agrobiodiversity in urban community gardens1
Reacting to rural problems or creating cognitive space? Knowledge production and the diffusion of the agroecology movement in Chiang Mai, Thailand1
Pollinating insects form different modules with Malvaceae crops in a global meta-network1
Crop diversification and its impact on income diversification and crop income in Bangladesh1
Agroecological Living Labs as entry points for transition towards sustainable food systems: a novel framework for the evaluation of living labs at different scales1
A scoping review of participatory research methods in agroecology studies conducted in South Asia1
“First we eat and then we sell”: participatory guarantee systems for alternative sustainability certification of Bolivian agri-food products1
The farmer’s lawyer: the North Dakota nine and the fight to save the family farm1
Integrating irrigation management and soil remediation practices for sustainable agricultural production: advances, challenges, and future directions1
Implications of biotechnology development for research and agriculture in China: neoliberalism, the state, and science1
Understanding farmers’ motivations to produce pulses and promote better agroecological practices1
A community-engaged tool for evaluating food sovereignty in Haiti and beyond1
Livestock production systems in wetlands of Argentina: assessing transition toward sustainable agroecological systems-1
Why and how do farmers’ organizations get involved in the promotion of agroecological techniques? Insights from Burkina Faso1
How transformative is agroecological knowledge co-creation? Insights from a systematic literature review1
On-farm conservation in Phaseolus lunatus L: an alternative for agricultural biodiversity1
The stories of seed sovereignty1
Underexploited tropical and subtropical vegetable crops for diversification and nutritional security: a review1
Agroecology from an island perspective1
The problem with food security assessments and a case for food sovereignty evaluative tools: comparing food security and food sovereignty assessments in Haiti1
Building a global network for agroecology at FAO1
In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California1
Agroecosystem-based agricultural genetic resources for balanced and diversified food, nutrition, health, business, geographical indication and environment1
Perspectives on agroecological transition: the case of Guachetá municipality, Colombia1
Terraces and ancestral knowledge in an Andean agroecosystem: a call for inclusiveness in planetary health action1
Genomics of a barley population evolved on-farm under different environmental conditions1
Factors affecting the net ecosystem productivity of agroecosystems on mineral soils: a meta-analysis1
The need for a unified agroecosystem concept1
Philanthropic Funding for Agroecology in Europe – Opening the (black) box of sustainable food system actors1
Agriculture against the wall: barriers and opportunities for agroecological transitions in California’s industrial agricultural landscapes1
Fostering the training of future agroecologists1
Transforming agroecology perceptions: enhancing awareness, knowledge and involvement through a multistakeholder forum1
Transitioning the agri-food system. Does closeness mean sustainability? how production and shipping strategies impact socially and environmentally. Comparing Spain, South Africa and U.S. citrus fruit 1
Smaller farms or factory farms?: An agroecological perspective1
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi community in coffee cultivation under different agroforestry management systems in the Maciço de Baturité region, Brazil1
Integrated analysis of agroecosystems with citrus orchards in organic, agroforestry, and conventional systems1
Preserving the wildness of crop wild relatives1
Sustainable management practices do not reduce oil palm yields on smallholder farms on Borneo1
Notes on autonomy as an agroecological principle1
Underutilized food plants and their potential contribution to food security: lessons learned from the local context1
Celebrating 10 Years of Agroecology1
Doing agroecology in the belly of the beast1
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