OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment is 18. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	213
Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana	176
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	148
High frequency phone surveys for tracking food prices: Evidence from the KasuwaGo project	134
An analysis of the transformative potential of major food system report recommendations	125
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	111
Maximizing value of genetic sequence data requires an enabling environment and urgency	106
Towards improving food safety in Cambodia: Current status and emerging opportunities	106
Organic farming expansion and food security: A review of foresight modeling studies	101
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	95
Do international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transformation? A textual analysis of design documents	78
Unlocking the potential of aquatic foods in global food security and nutrition: A missing piece under the lens of seafood liking index	72
Helping feed the world with rice innovations: CGIAR research adoption and socioeconomic impact on farmers	70
Climate change and sex-specific labor intensity: An empirical analysis in Africa	63
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	56
What is wrong with biofortification	52
Continuity and change in the contemporary Pacific food system	51
Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise	50
Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture	48
Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil	45
Varietal turn-over and their effect on yield and food security – Evidence from 20 years of household surveys in Kenya	44
Potential and limitations of machine learning modeling for forecasting Acute Food Insecurity	43
Guiding sector transformation: Power strategies of a non-state actor in the centrally planned seed sector of Ethiopia	43
Does institutional quality affect the impact of public agricultural spending on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?	42
Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review	42

Revisiting the drought-food insecurity nexus: a social-ecological systems perspective	39
Price shocks and associated policy responses stemming from the Russia-Ukraine War and other global crises: Evidence from six African countries	39
How do food companies try to reach lower-income consumers, and do they succeed? Insights from a systematic review	39
Quantifying food consumption supply risk: An analysis across countries and agricultural products	37
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system	37
Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice	36
Consumer pesticide concerns and the choice of fruit and vegetable markets in five low- and middle-income countries	36
Maize yield forecasts for Sub-Saharan Africa using Earth Observation data and machine learning	36
Rural-urban transition and food security in India	35
Urbanization shapes West African diets throughout the rural-urban continuum	35
Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?	34
Understanding adolescents’ lived experience of food poverty. A multi-method study among food aid recipient families in Italy.	33
Actions in global nutrition initiatives to promote sustainable healthy diets	33
Natural resources management for resilient inclusive rural transformation	33
Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region	32
Pollinator-dependent crops in Brazil yield nearly half of nutrients for humans and livestock feed	32
Putting food systems thinking into practice: Integrating agricultural sectors into a multi-level analytical framework	31
Levelling the farm fields: A cross-country study of the determinants of gender-based yield gaps	31
A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food	31
Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A comparison across African countries	31
Are AgriFoodTech start-ups the new drivers of food systems transformation? An overview of the state of the art and a research agenda	30
Transforming food systems: Multi-stakeholder platforms driven by consumer concerns and public demands	30
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship	29
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals	29
Differences in the early impact of COVID-19 on food security and livelihoods in rural and urban areas in the Asia Pacific Region	27
Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability	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	27
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis	27
Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	26
The myth of the market queens: A case study of women and power in Ghanaian markets	26
Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens	26
Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts	26
The role of public-private partnerships in improving global food security	25
The role of trade in pacific food security and nutrition	25
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
It's time to consider global catastrophic food failures	23
Uncovering the gap: Assessing the compliance of the canadian food availability with dietary recommendations and its impact on the environment	23
Agricultural extension and food security – The case of Uganda	22
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	22
How have smallholder farmers used digital extension tools? Developer and user voices from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia	22
Current state of nutrition in West Africa and projections to 2030	20
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	20
Disability inclusion: A missing ingredient for food system equity	20
Capital constraints or biased norms? Tracing the root of gendered agricultural productivity in rural China	20
New insights into the measurement of household well-being for vulnerable economies: Evidence from Pakistan's labor and diet data	19
Change in dietary pattern of Agri commodities in the past six decades: Time-varying VAR approach	19
Grain legume production in Europe for food, feed and meat-substitution	19
Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex	19

Use of mobile financial services among farmers in Africa: Insights from Kenya	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
Gender dynamics in agrifood value chains: Advances in research and practice over the last decade	18
What do the 235 estimates from the literature tell us about the impact of weather on agricultural and food trade flows?	18
Global analysis of nitrogen fertilization effects on grain zinc and iron of major cereal crops.	18
Perspective: The gap between intent and climate action in agriculture	18