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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Maximizing value of genetic sequence data requires an enabling environment and urgency	265
High frequency phone surveys for tracking food prices: Evidence from the KasuwaGo project	171
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	157
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	137
Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana	128
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	102
Unlocking the potential of aquatic foods in global food security and nutrition: A missing piece under the lens of seafood liking index	99
Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise	98
Climate change and sex-specific labor intensity: An empirical analysis in Africa	90
What is wrong with biofortification	72
Organic farming expansion and food security: A review of foresight modeling studies	58
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	51
Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture	50
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	48
Helping feed the world with rice innovations: CGIAR research adoption and socioeconomic impact on farmers	48
Gender Inequalities in Agrifood Systems: An overview of the state of research	45
Do international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transformation? A textual analysis of design documents	45
Measuring agricultural sustainability: Revisiting Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 2.4.1 and its proxy	44
Varietal turn-over and their effect on yield and food security – Evidence from 20 years of household surveys in Kenya	43
Guiding sector transformation: Power strategies of a non-state actor in the centrally planned seed sector of Ethiopia	43
Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil	42
Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice	42
Price shocks and associated policy responses stemming from the Russia-Ukraine War and other global crises: Evidence from six African countries	41
Rural-urban transition and food security in India	41
Revisiting the drought-food insecurity nexus: a social-ecological systems perspective	40

Maize yield forecasts for Sub-Saharan Africa using Earth Observation data and machine learning	39
Quantifying food consumption supply risk: An analysis across countries and agricultural products	39
Consumer pesticide concerns and the choice of fruit and vegetable markets in five low- and middle-income countries	38
Maize varietal turnover in eastern Africa: Current challenges and future research directions	38
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system	36
Potential and limitations of machine learning modeling for forecasting Acute Food Insecurity	36
Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review	34
Does institutional quality affect the impact of public agricultural spending on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?	34
How do food companies try to reach lower-income consumers, and do they succeed? Insights from a systematic review	33
Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?	32
Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region	32
Beyond the bin: demographic characteristics and attitudes associated with dumpster diving. The UK as a case study	32
Urbanization shapes West African diets throughout the rural-urban continuum	30
Natural resources management for resilient inclusive rural transformation	30
A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food	29
Understanding adolescents’ lived experience of food poverty. A multi-method study among food aid recipient families in Italy.	28
The myth of the market queens: A case study of women and power in Ghanaian markets	27
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis	27
Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts	27
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship	27
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	26
Levelling the farm fields: A cross-country study of the determinants of gender-based yield gaps	26
Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	26
Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability	26
Are AgriFoodTech start-ups the new drivers of food systems transformation? An overview of the state of the art and a research agenda	25
It's time to consider global catastrophic food failures	25
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals	25
Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A comparison across African countries	25
The protein transition into context – the impact of dietary shifts in different countries on nutritional adequacy of diets	24
Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens	24
COVID-19 mobility restrictions and stay-at-home behaviour in 2020 were associated with higher retail food prices worldwide	24
Farming for the future: Understanding factors enabling the adoption of diversified farming systems	24
An evaluative framework for inclusive agricultural value chain policies and interventions – Case: Mali	24
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	23
Uncovering the gap: Assessing the compliance of the canadian food availability with dietary recommendations and its impact on the environment	23
The role of trade in pacific food security and nutrition	23
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	23
Agricultural extension and food security – The case of Uganda	23
Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex	22
New insights into the measurement of household well-being for vulnerable economies: Evidence from Pakistan's labor and diet data	22
Capital constraints or biased norms? Tracing the root of gendered agricultural productivity in rural China	21
Grain legume production in Europe for food, feed and meat-substitution	21
Food System Policies: A global snapshot from the Food System Policy Database	20
Global analysis of nitrogen fertilization effects on grain zinc and iron of major cereal crops.	19
Resilience of food supply systems to sudden shocks: A global review and narrative synthesis	19
How to swarm? Organizing for sustainable and equitable food systems transformation in a time of crisis	18
Gender dynamics in agrifood value chains: Advances in research and practice over the last decade	18
Change in dietary pattern of Agri commodities in the past six decades: Time-varying VAR approach	18
A global scoping review of alternative food movements calls for food justice and justice beyond individual humans	18
Post-farmgate food businesses of India: The enterprises, the entrepreneurs, and the employees	17

The CGIAR needs a revolution	17
Disparities and determinants of Somali refugee food security in Nairobi, Kenya	17
What do the 235 estimates from the literature tell us about the impact of weather on agricultural and food trade flows?	17
A systematic review of review studies on women’s empowerment and food security literature	16
Trade-offs for healthy and sustainable diets in Europe: Social-ecological dynamics in an intensive agricultural system	16
Food security and the cultural heritage missing link	16
Food environment framework in low- and middle-income countries - An integrative review	16
Complex network analysis and health implications of nutrient trade	16
Food system games for sustainability transformation – A review	16
Unintended consequences of a financial incentive scheme for fruit and vegetable purchasing in an unorganised retail setting in rural India	16
The role of water in transforming food systems	16
Evidence supports the potential for climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania	16
Agricultural value chains and food security in the Pacific: Evidence from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands	16
Diet cost and affordability metrics, their application today and in the future	16
Food processing and sustainability: Exploring new multidisciplinary perspectives	15
Expanding the food environment framework to include family dynamics: A systematic synthesis of qualitative evidence using HIV as a case study	15
Halving nitrogen waste in the European Union food systems requires both dietary shifts and farm level actions	15
Knowledge gaps about micronutrient deficiencies in Tanzania and the effect of information interventions	15
Unpacking the role of neglected and underutilized plant species in smallholder diversification strategies for food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Senegal	15
The right to certify – Institutionalizing participatory guarantee systems (PGS): A Latin American cross-country comparison	14
Informal pandemic precarity and migrant food enterprise in South Africa during COVID-19	14
The power of on-farm data for improved agronomy	13
Resilient and inclusive rural transformation: Exploring pathways for sustainable development	13
Analyzing diet cost and affordability: A dataset from Fill the Nutrient Gap analyses (2015–2021)	13
Spatial variation in the cost and affordability of the global healthy diet basket: Evidence from household surveys in five African countries	13
The alienation of abundance: A resonance theory perspective on food waste	12
Ecological functional diversity predicts nutritional functional diversity in complex agroforests	12
Food sovereignty and autonomy for indigenous health as resistance to food globalization: Scoping review	12
Making better policies for food systems will require reducing evidence gaps	12
Food production as insurance against maize price volatility: Nutritional implications for children in Tanzania	12
Economic integration and food security – The case of the AfCFTA	12
Does dairy intensification threaten livelihood diversity in East Africa?	11
The benefits and trade-offs of agricultural diversity for food security in low- and middle-income countries: A review of existing knowledge and evidence	11
Iron biofortification and yield of wheat grain in response to Fe fertilization and its driving variables: A meta-analysis	11
Trade-offs associated with achieving food self-sufficiency: The underlying mechanisms	11
Protecting child nutrition and fishery ecosystems: A cluster controlled trial in coastal Kenya	11
Responsible plant nutrition: A new paradigm to support food system transformation	11
Potential impacts of Ukraine-Russia armed conflict on global wheat food security: A quantitative exploration	10
COVID-19 impact on food consumption of low-skilled employees in India	10
The role of social protection in achieving resilient and inclusive rural transformation	10
Response to letter to the editor from Boddupalli et al.	10
A systematic review of the evolution of food system resilience assessment	10
Toward Core Indicators for Resilience Analysis: A framework to promote harmonized metrics and empirical coherence	10
Meta-analysis of the impacts of digital information interventions on agricultural development	10
Assessing returns to research investments in rice varietal development: Evidence from the Philippines and Bangladesh	10
Change in the climate and other factors affecting agriculture, food or poverty: An opportunity, a threat or both? A personal perspective	10
This is our last goodbye	10
COVID-19: Solidarity initiatives for food security in the Mayan indigenous region of south-southeast Mexico	10
Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health	9
Inequality of opportunity in children's nutritional outcomes in China	9
The role of recall periods when predicting food insecurity: A machine learning application in Nigeria	9
Dietary inadequacy in Tanzania is linked to the rising cost of nutritious foods and consumption of food-away-from-home	9
Can we agree on a food loss and waste definition? An assessment of definitional elements for a globally applicable framework	9
The Nanjing model: Comprehensive food system governance, localization and urban food security in China	9
Poverty, price and preference barriers to improving diets in sub-Saharan Africa	9
Measuring food access using least-cost diets: Results for global monitoring and targeting of interventions to improve food security, nutrition and health	9
Resilient and inclusive rural transformation: Pathways towards improved nutrition	9
Validating the food insecurity experience scale for use in analyses of recent food insecurity	8
The role of genetically modified organisms in food, energy, and sustainability in developing countries	8
Fostering an enabling environment for equality and empowerment in agri-food systems: An assessment at multiple scales	8
Pathways to wheat self-sufficiency in Africa	8
Perspective paper: Framework to assess the potential of circular food system technologies	8
Narrowing the ecological yield gap to sustain crop yields with less inputs	8
Why do epidemics cause more hunger even when global food production is unaffected?	8
Refrigerator ownership and child health and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries	7
Myths about the feminization of agriculture: Implications for global food security	7
Flour blending can mitigate food insecurity and economic stress	7
The affordability gap for nutritious diets – How big is it and how to close it?	7
Time to transform? Sustainability narratives for European food systems	7
Entrepreneur-led food fortification: A complementary approach for nutritious diets in developing countries	7
Conceptualizing circularity in urban food systems: A scoping review	7
Letter to the editor of global food security	7
Water-cropland resources and agricultural management shape the main interactions with food self-sufficiency goals	7
Closing of the yield gap can be achieved without groundwater extraction in Chinese wheat production	7