OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment is 21. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Maximizing value of genetic sequence data requires an enabling environment and urgency	165
Community-led food resilience:A decolonizing autographic learning from an Inuit community	158
COVID-19: Solidarity initiatives for food security in the Mayan indigenous region of south-southeast Mexico	152
Sustainable intensification and food security: A panel data assessment of the smallholder maize farmers in Uganda	116
Response to letter to the editor from Boddupalli et al.	111
Food insecurity erodes trust	98
How country policy actors understand sustainability of food and nutrition security policy	90
Does dairy intensification threaten livelihood diversity in East Africa?	88
Urban food (In)security and the role of migrant informal food waste recyclers in Delhi	88
Food and nutrition security under changing climate and socioeconomic conditions	82
Small-scale farming and food security – Policy perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe	78
Linking armed conflict to malnutrition during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and childhood	76
Factors influencing household pulse consumption in India: A multilevel model analysis	74
The effects of food export restrictions on the domestic economy of exporting countries: A review	74
Local communities’ perceptions of wild edible plant and mushroom change: A systematic review	74
Disability inclusion: A missing ingredient for food system equity	72
Current state of nutrition in West Africa and projections to 2030	72
Towards improving food safety in Cambodia: Current status and emerging opportunities	65
How online food delivery platforms contributed to the resilience of the urban food system in China during the COVID-19 pandemic	63
Methodological approaches to assess food systems sustainability: A literature review	61
The importance of assets for coping with COVID-19 and other shocks	56
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	55
Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex	54
Food system adaptation and maintaining trade could mitigate global famine in abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios	51
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	47

How to monitor the ‘success’ of agricultural sustainability: A perspective	46
How sustainable is sustainable intensification? Assessing yield gaps at field and farm level across the globe	45
Is land nationalization more conducive to sustainable development of cultivated land and food security than land privatization in post-socialist Central Asia?	44
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	43
Protecting child nutrition and fishery ecosystems: A cluster controlled trial in coastal Kenya	38
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	38
Top-down vs bottom-up processes: A systematic review clarifying roles and patterns of interactions in food system transformation	38
Innovation and technology for achieving resilient and inclusive rural transformation	37
The role of social protection in achieving resilient and inclusive rural transformation	37
All hat and no cattle: Accountability following the UN food systems summit	36
CGIAR genebank viability data reveal inconsistencies in seed collection management	35
Gendered pathways for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	35
The benefits and trade-offs of agricultural diversity for food security in low- and middle-income countries: A review of existing knowledge and evidence	35
Can healthy diets be achieved worldwide in 2050 without farmland expansion?	34
Mechanization, digitalization, and rural youth - Stakeholder perceptions on three mega-topics for agricultural transformation in four African countries	34
Responsible plant nutrition: A new paradigm to support food system transformation	32
What does the agri-food systems transformation agenda mean for agricultural research organisations? Exploring organisational prototypes for uncertain futures	32
An analysis of the transformative potential of major food system report recommendations	32
The whole grain manifesto: From Green Revolution to Grain Evolution	31
Consumer experiences of food environments during the Covid-19 pandemic: Global insights from a rapid online survey of individuals from 119 countries	31
The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: Implications for food security strategies	30
Grain legume production in Europe for food, feed and meat-substitution	30
The Russia-Ukraine war: Implications for global and regional food security and potential policy responses	30
Addressing gender inequalities and strengthening women's agency to create more climate-resilient and sustainable food systems	29
What is ‘conventional’ agriculture?	29
Understanding drivers of food choice in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic mapping study	29
Resilience of food supply systems to sudden shocks: A global review and narrative synthesis	29
The shift to plant-based diets: are we missing the point?	29
Severe food insecurity among middle-aged and older adults in India: Insights from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India	29
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	28
Change in dietary pattern of Agri commodities in the past six decades: Time-varying VAR approach	28
Aquaculture: The missing contributor in the food security agenda	28
Gender-responsiveness of agricultural policy: An analysis in low-and middle-income countries	28
Insights from systems thinking and complexity science to strengthen food systems frameworks	27
Gender dynamics in agrifood value chains: Advances in research and practice over the last decade	27
Perspective: The gap between intent and climate action in agriculture	27
Will the protein transition lead to sustainable food systems?	26
A review of satellite-based global agricultural monitoring systems available for Africa	26
Change in the climate and other factors affecting agriculture, food or poverty: An opportunity, a threat or both? A personal perspective	24
A modelled estimate of food access within countries shows that inequality within countries has increased despite rising equality between countries	24
COVID-19 impact on food consumption of low-skilled employees in India	24
Seaweed's contribution to food security in low- and middle-income countries: Benefits from production, processing and trade	24
Fortified whole grains and whole blends: A timely food systems shift	24
Assessing returns to research investments in rice varietal development: Evidence from the Philippines and Bangladesh	23
Toward Core Indicators for Resilience Analysis: A framework to promote harmonized metrics and empirical coherence	23
This is our last goodbye	23
Gender research in the CGIAR: The revolution is far from over	23
How to swarm? Organizing for sustainable and equitable food systems transformation in a time of crisis	23
What do the 235 estimates from the literature tell us about the impact of weather on agricultural and food trade flows?	23
Advancing knowledge about stakeholder engagement in multisectoral nutrition research	22

Using crowd-sourced data for real-time monitoring of food prices during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from a pilot project in northern Nigeria	22
Monitoring and projecting global hunger: Are we on track?	22
Highly variable performance of sustainable intensification on smallholder farms: A systematic review	22
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	21
Unseen food: The importance of extra-market small farm's production for rural households in Europe	21