OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment is 17. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The nascent state of urban food policy action in Asian cities	282
High frequency phone surveys for tracking food prices: Evidence from the KasuwaGo project	182
Remittances, food insecurity, and coping strategies of West African migrants in Accra, Ghana	171
Do diverse crops or diverse market purchases matter more for women's diet quality in farm households of Mali?	153
Defining and measuring policy coherence for food system transformation: A scoping review	124
Climate change and sex-specific labor intensity: An empirical analysis in Africa	86
Do international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transformation? A textual analysis of design documents	67
Searching for the essential: Exploring practitioners’ views on actions for re-orienting food systems towards healthy diets	57
Feeding hope: Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa and the evolving landscape of cross-border remittances	57
What is wrong with biofortification	51
Why public wheat breeding needs patient capital: institutional erosion and the fragile foundation of global food security	51
Organic farming expansion and food security: A review of foresight modeling studies	49
Gender Inequalities in Agrifood Systems: An overview of the state of research	48
Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise	46
Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture	45
Consumer pesticide concerns and the choice of fruit and vegetable markets in five low- and middle-income countries	43
Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review	40
Guiding sector transformation: Power strategies of a non-state actor in the centrally planned seed sector of Ethiopia	39
How do food companies try to reach lower-income consumers, and do they succeed? Insights from a systematic review	39
Potential and limitations of machine learning modeling for forecasting Acute Food Insecurity	39
Maize varietal turnover in eastern Africa: Current challenges and future research directions	38
Rural-urban transition and food security in India	37
Varietal turn-over and their effect on yield and food security – Evidence from 20 years of household surveys in Kenya	36
Domestic and international impacts of rice export restrictions: The recent case of indian non-basmati rice	35
Measuring agricultural sustainability: Revisiting Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 2.4.1 and its proxy	35

Revisiting the drought-food insecurity nexus: a social-ecological systems perspective	33
Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil	33
Does institutional quality affect the impact of public agricultural spending on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?	32
Quantifying food consumption supply risk: An analysis across countries and agricultural products	32
Price shocks and associated policy responses stemming from the Russia-Ukraine War and other global crises: Evidence from six African countries	31
Urbanization shapes West African diets throughout the rural-urban continuum	31
Understanding adolescents’ lived experience of food poverty. A multi-method study among food aid recipient families in Italy.	31
Natural resources management for resilient inclusive rural transformation	30
Beyond the bin: demographic characteristics and attitudes associated with dumpster diving. The UK as a case study	30
Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?	30
A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food	29
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	28
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis	28
The myth of the market queens: A case study of women and power in Ghanaian markets	28
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship	28
Levelling the farm fields: A cross-country study of the determinants of gender-based yield gaps	28
Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region	28
Are AgriFoodTech start-ups the new drivers of food systems transformation? An overview of the state of the art and a research agenda	27
Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A comparison across African countries	27
Challenges and opportunities for building resilient agrifood systems in food crisis contexts	27
Land tenure for resilient and inclusive rural transformation	27
Revealing the power of green leafy vegetables: Cultivating diversity for health, environmental benefits, and sustainability	26
Approximating the global economic (market) value of farmed animals	26
The protein transition into context – the impact of dietary shifts in different countries on nutritional adequacy of diets	24
Uncovering the gap: Assessing the compliance of the canadian food availability with dietary recommendations and its impact on the environment	24
Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens	24
It's time to consider global catastrophic food failures	23
An evaluative framework for inclusive agricultural value chain policies and interventions – Case: Mali	23
The role of trade in pacific food security and nutrition	22
COVID-19 mobility restrictions and stay-at-home behaviour in 2020 were associated with higher retail food prices worldwide	21
Farming for the future: Understanding factors enabling the adoption of diversified farming systems	19
Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex	19
The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security	19
Multisectoral behavior change intervention improves diet quality, but not food security, in rural Uganda	19
Agricultural extension and food security – The case of Uganda	19
New insights into the measurement of household well-being for vulnerable economies: Evidence from Pakistan's labor and diet data	19
A global scoping review of alternative food movements calls for food justice and justice beyond individual humans	18
Change in dietary pattern of Agri commodities in the past six decades: Time-varying VAR approach	18
Capital constraints or biased norms? Tracing the root of gendered agricultural productivity in rural China	18
What do the 235 estimates from the literature tell us about the impact of weather on agricultural and food trade flows?	18
Grain legume production in Europe for food, feed and meat-substitution	18
Assessing the effectiveness of agricultural commercialization interventions in improving food security in developing countries: A meta review	18
Food System Policies: A global snapshot from the Food System Policy Database	18
Post-farmgate food businesses of India: The enterprises, the entrepreneurs, and the employees	17
Resilience of food supply systems to sudden shocks: A global review and narrative synthesis	17
Gender dynamics in agrifood value chains: Advances in research and practice over the last decade	17
Trade-offs for healthy and sustainable diets in Europe: Social-ecological dynamics in an intensive agricultural system	17
The CGIAR needs a revolution	17
Disparities and determinants of Somali refugee food security in Nairobi, Kenya	17