OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	234
Maximizing value of genetic sequence data requires an enabling environment and urgency	161
Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana	152
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	146
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	122
High frequency phone surveys for tracking food prices: Evidence from the KasuwaGo project	113
An analysis of the transformative potential of major food system report recommendations	113
Climate change and sex-specific labor intensity: An empirical analysis in Africa	105
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	84
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	84
Do international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transformation? A textual analysis of design documents	81
Gender Inequalities in Agrifood Systems: An overview of the state of research	76
Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture	74
Organic farming expansion and food security: A review of foresight modeling studies	58
What is wrong with biofortification	54
Unlocking the potential of aquatic foods in global food security and nutrition: A missing piece under the lens of seafood liking index	54
Continuity and change in the contemporary Pacific food system	53
Helping feed the world with rice innovations: CGIAR research adoption and socioeconomic impact on farmers	53
Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise	48
Maize varietal turnover in eastern Africa: Current challenges and future research directions	47
Measuring agricultural sustainability: Revisiting Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 2.4.1 and its proxy	43
Does institutional quality affect the impact of public agricultural spending on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?	42
Varietal turn-over and their effect on yield and food security – Evidence from 20 years of household surveys in Kenya	41
Price shocks and associated policy responses stemming from the Russia-Ukraine War and other global crises: Evidence from six African countries	41
Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice	41

How do food companies try to reach lower-income consumers, and do they succeed? Insights from a systematic review	40
Potential and limitations of machine learning modeling for forecasting Acute Food Insecurity	39
Consumer pesticide concerns and the choice of fruit and vegetable markets in five low- and middle-income countries	39
Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil	39
Maize yield forecasts for Sub-Saharan Africa using Earth Observation data and machine learning	38
Guiding sector transformation: Power strategies of a non-state actor in the centrally planned seed sector of Ethiopia	38
Quantifying food consumption supply risk: An analysis across countries and agricultural products	38
Rural-urban transition and food security in India	38
Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review	38
Revisiting the drought-food insecurity nexus: a social-ecological systems perspective	38
Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region	37
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system	37
Understanding adolescents’ lived experience of food poverty. A multi-method study among food aid recipient families in Italy.	36
Urbanization shapes West African diets throughout the rural-urban continuum	34
Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?	34
Natural resources management for resilient inclusive rural transformation	34
A risk governance approach to mitigating food system risks in a crisis: Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic in five low- and middle-income countries	33
A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food	33
Levelling the farm fields: A cross-country study of the determinants of gender-based yield gaps	33
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship	32
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis	31
Are AgriFoodTech start-ups the new drivers of food systems transformation? An overview of the state of the art and a research agenda	29
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals	29
Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	29
Transforming food systems: Multi-stakeholder platforms driven by consumer concerns and public demands	27
Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts	27
Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A comparison across African countries	27
Putting food systems thinking into practice: Integrating agricultural sectors into a multi-level analytical framework	27
Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability	27
The myth of the market queens: A case study of women and power in Ghanaian markets	26
Farming for the future: Understanding factors enabling the adoption of diversified farming systems	25
Uncovering the gap: Assessing the compliance of the canadian food availability with dietary recommendations and its impact on the environment	25
The protein transition into context – the impact of dietary shifts in different countries on nutritional adequacy of diets	25
It's time to consider global catastrophic food failures	25
How have smallholder farmers used digital extension tools? Developer and user voices from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia	24
An evaluative framework for inclusive agricultural value chain policies and interventions – Case: Mali	24
Agricultural extension and food security – The case of Uganda	24
The role of trade in pacific food security and nutrition	24
Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens	23
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	23
COVID-19 mobility restrictions and stay-at-home behaviour in 2020 were associated with higher retail food prices worldwide	23
Current state of nutrition in West Africa and projections to 2030	22
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	22
Food System Policies: A global snapshot from the Food System Policy Database	21
Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex	21
New insights into the measurement of household well-being for vulnerable economies: Evidence from Pakistan's labor and diet data	21
How to swarm? Organizing for sustainable and equitable food systems transformation in a time of crisis	20
Grain legume production in Europe for food, feed and meat-substitution	20
Capital constraints or biased norms? Tracing the root of gendered agricultural productivity in rural China	20
Use of mobile financial services among farmers in Africa: Insights from Kenya	19

A global scoping review of alternative food movements calls for food justice and justice beyond individual humans	19
Change in dietary pattern of Agri commodities in the past six decades: Time-varying VAR approach	19
What do the 235 estimates from the literature tell us about the impact of weather on agricultural and food trade flows?	19
Implementation and scale-up of nutrition-sensitive agriculture in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of what works, what doesn't work and why	18
Global analysis of nitrogen fertilization effects on grain zinc and iron of major cereal crops.	18
Gender dynamics in agrifood value chains: Advances in research and practice over the last decade	18
Resilience of food supply systems to sudden shocks: A global review and narrative synthesis	18
Perspective: The gap between intent and climate action in agriculture	18
Agricultural value chains and food security in the Pacific: Evidence from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands	17
Complex network analysis and health implications of nutrient trade	17
The role of water in transforming food systems	16
Food environment framework in low- and middle-income countries - An integrative review	16
Post-farmgate food businesses of India: The enterprises, the entrepreneurs, and the employees	15
Evidence supports the potential for climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania	15
Food system games for sustainability transformation – A review	15
Disparities and determinants of Somali refugee food security in Nairobi, Kenya	15
Trade-offs for healthy and sustainable diets in Europe: Social-ecological dynamics in an intensive agricultural system	15
The CGIAR needs a revolution	15
Halving nitrogen waste in the European Union food systems requires both dietary shifts and farm level actions	14
The right to certify – Institutionalizing participatory guarantee systems (PGS): A Latin American cross-country comparison	14
Holding no-one back: The Nutrition Equity Framework in theory and practice	14
Food processing and sustainability: Exploring new multidisciplinary perspectives	14
Food security and the cultural heritage missing link	14
Unintended consequences of a financial incentive scheme for fruit and vegetable purchasing in an unorganised retail setting in rural India	14
Diet cost and affordability metrics, their application today and in the future	14
Knowledge gaps about micronutrient deficiencies in Tanzania and the effect of information interventions	14
A systematic review of review studies on women’s empowerment and food security literature	14
Gender-based differentials in food insecurity and wellbeing in Arab countries	13
Expanding the food environment framework to include family dynamics: A systematic synthesis of qualitative evidence using HIV as a case study	13
Informal pandemic precarity and migrant food enterprise in South Africa during COVID-19	13
Analyzing diet cost and affordability: A dataset from Fill the Nutrient Gap analyses (2015–2021)	12
Ecological functional diversity predicts nutritional functional diversity in complex agroforests	12
Carbon mapping frameworks for the distribution of fresh fruit: A systematic review	12
Resilient and inclusive rural transformation: Exploring pathways for sustainable development	12
The power of on-farm data for improved agronomy	12
Spatial variation in the cost and affordability of the global healthy diet basket: Evidence from household surveys in five African countries	12
Iron biofortification and yield of wheat grain in response to Fe fertilization and its driving variables: A meta-analysis	11
Making better policies for food systems will require reducing evidence gaps	11
Food sovereignty and autonomy for indigenous health as resistance to food globalization: Scoping review	11
Meta-analysis of the impacts of digital information interventions on agricultural development	10
Protecting child nutrition and fishery ecosystems: A cluster controlled trial in coastal Kenya	10
Response to letter to the editor from Boddupalli et al.	10
Economic integration and food security – The case of the AfCFTA	10
Does dairy intensification threaten livelihood diversity in East Africa?	10
The role of social protection in achieving resilient and inclusive rural transformation	9
Mechanization, digitalization, and rural youth - Stakeholder perceptions on three mega-topics for agricultural transformation in four African countries	9
Can we agree on a food loss and waste definition? An assessment of definitional elements for a globally applicable framework	9
The benefits and trade-offs of agricultural diversity for food security in low- and middle-income countries: A review of existing knowledge and evidence	9
COVID-19 impact on food consumption of low-skilled employees in India	9
Potential impacts of Ukraine-Russia armed conflict on global wheat food security: A quantitative exploration	9
COVID-19: Solidarity initiatives for food security in the Mayan indigenous region of south-southeast Mexico	9
Responsible plant nutrition: A new paradigm to support food system transformation	9
Assessing returns to research investments in rice varietal development: Evidence from the Philippines and Bangladesh	9
This is our last goodbye	9
Poverty, price and preference barriers to improving diets in sub-Saharan Africa	8
Change in the climate and other factors affecting agriculture, food or poverty: An opportunity, a threat or both? A personal perspective	8
Dietary inadequacy in Tanzania is linked to the rising cost of nutritious foods and consumption of food-away-from-home	8
Inequality of opportunity in children's nutritional outcomes in China	8
Why do epidemics cause more hunger even when global food production is unaffected?	8
Validity and cross-context equivalence of experience-based measures of food insecurity	8
A systematic review of the evolution of food system resilience assessment	8
Resilient and inclusive rural transformation: Pathways towards improved nutrition	8
The Nanjing model: Comprehensive food system governance, localization and urban food security in China	8
The role of recall periods when predicting food insecurity: A machine learning application in Nigeria	8
Toward Core Indicators for Resilience Analysis: A framework to promote harmonized metrics and empirical coherence	8
Measuring food access using least-cost diets: Results for global monitoring and targeting of interventions to improve food security, nutrition and health	8
Digital trust substitution technologies to support smallholder livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa	8
Narrowing the ecological yield gap to sustain crop yields with less inputs	8
Letter to the editor of global food security	7
Fostering an enabling environment for equality and empowerment in agri-food systems: An assessment at multiple scales	7
Time to transform? Sustainability narratives for European food systems	7
Conceptualizing circularity in urban food systems: A scoping review	7
Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health	7
The role of genetically modified organisms in food, energy, and sustainability in developing countries	7
Validating the food insecurity experience scale for use in analyses of recent food insecurity	7
The affordability gap for nutritious diets – How big is it and how to close it?	7
Perspective paper: Framework to assess the potential of circular food system technologies	7
Refrigerator ownership and child health and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries	7
Flour blending can mitigate food insecurity and economic stress	7