Agriculture & Food Security is a peer-reviewed open access journal that addresses the challenge of global food security. It publishes articles within the field of food security research, with a particular focus on research that may inform more sustainable agriculture and food systems that better address local, regional, national and/or global food and nutritional insecurity. The journal considers cutting-edge contributions across the breadth of relevant academic disciplines, including agricultural, ecological, environmental, nutritional, and socio-economic sciences, public health and policy.
The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to:
- &nsbp;Agricultural and environmental sciences, including genetics and systems ecology
- &nsbp;Animal husbandry, fisheries science and plant science
- &nsbp;Global change, biodiversity, climatology and abiotic stresses
- &nsbp;Food technology and balancing agricultural outputs across food, feed, fibre and fuel
- &nsbp;Economics, information sciences and decision theory
- &nsbp;Strategies for the implementation of new policies and practices
- &nsbp;Public health in relation to the condition of food and nutritional security
The pioneering advances in research reported in Agriculture & Food Security have far reaching implications both for the developing world and for sustainability in the developed world. The published articles are accessible not only to researchers, but are also of special interest to the wider community of farmers, development and public health workers, policy makers and the general public.
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Agriculture & Food Security is accepting submissions; please use the online submission system to submit your manuscript.
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Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
- Malcolm Elliott, The Norman Borlaug Institute for Global Food Security, UK
- Molly Jahn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- Magdy Madkour, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Advisory Board
- Arie Altman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Tim Benton, University of Leeds, UK
- Carlos Borroto Nordelo, Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cuba
- Tracey Brown, Sense About Science, UK
- Michael Carter, UC Davis, USA
- Ratana Chuenpagdee, Memorial University, Canada
- Claire Cockcroft, Babraham Institute, UK
- Edward Cocking, University of Nottingham, UK
- Swapan Datta, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
- Nina Fedoroff, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- Luis Herrera-Estrella, National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity, Mexico
- Gurdev Khush, UC Davis, USA
- Sir Peter Lachmann, University of Cambridge, UK
- Barbara Mazur, Du Pont Agricultural Biotechnology, USA
- Maurice Moloney, Rothamsted Research, UK
- Agnes Mwang'ombe, University of Nairobi, Kenya
- Ioan Negrutiu, ENS, France
- Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, USA
- Rafael Rangel-Aldao, Summum Net, Venezuela
- Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA
- Elibio Rech, EMBRAPA, Brazil
- Mark Rosegrant, IFPRI, USA
- Albert Sasson, BioEuroLatina, Morocco
- Robert Scholes, CSIR, South Africa
- Lord Dick Taverne QC, House of Lords, UK
- Peter Timmer, Harvard University (Emeritus), USA
- Bob Webb, University of Nottingham, UK
- Meryl Williams, ACIAR, Australia
- Zhi-hong Xu, Peking University, China
Editorial Board
- Naglaa Abdallah, Cairo University, Egypt
- Klaus Ammann, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Ademola Braimoh, The World Bank, USA
- Karabi Datta, University of Calcutta, India
- Jerry Nelson, IFPRI, USA
- Theib Oweis, ICARDA, Syria
- Biljana Papazova, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Latha Rangan, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
- Susan Schneider, University of Arkansas School of Law, USA
- Adrian Slater, De Montfort University, UK
- Berhanu Tameru, Tuskegee University, USA
Editors' profiles
Malcolm Elliott
Malcolm Elliott is the Founding Director of The Norman Borlaug Institute for Global Food Security.
"It is a pleasure and a privilege to be involved in the launch of the peer-reviewed journal Agriculture & Food Security which publishes cutting edge contributions to the body of knowledge in this vitally important field. The online systems of BioMed Central greatly enhances the creative opportunities for authors to include in their manuscripts large datasets, links to other web pages, unlimited colour illustrations and animations and movie clips. Open access means that high quality research on agriculture and food security will be freely available to all, without charge, worldwide."
Magdy Madkour
Magdy Madkour is Head of Biotechnology at the Arid Lands Agriculture Research Institute, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He is also the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Agricultural Research for Development Fund at the Ministry of Agriculture and Senior Advisor to Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
"I am delighted and privileged to be associated with BioMed Central's recent effort to launch this peer-reviewed journal aiming to shed light on the latest research developments in the field of agriculture and food security. I consider this online journal a unique opportunity for young researchers to publish manuscripts and share their findings via one of the most dynamic and exiting means of information and knowledge sharing in existence to date."
Molly Jahn
Molly Jahn is a Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics and Department of Agronomy at the University of Madison-Wisconsin with an adjunct faculty appointment at Seoul National University.
"It is past time for a major journal focused on a topic that is arguably among the most important for this century, Agriculture & Food Security, and I am deeply committed to ensuring the success of this endeavor. The journal will create a global forum with a focus on innovations in agricultural and food systems toward food security. This approach is both grounded and integrated, moving beyond agricultural strategies focused sharply on short-term yield maximization to address issues critical to the long-term sustainability of global food systems and improved human health outcomes. In this open access journal, research and user communities will find a forum for considering innovations in managing complex and diverse agricultural and economic systems to more fully meet the needs of the present while ensuring a productive and prosperous future."
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