Agriculture & Food Security

Agriculture & Food Security is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by BioMed Central, established in 2012, addressing global food security through sustainable agriculture and food systems, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.1《农业与粮食安全》（Agriculture and Food Security）由（BioMed Central）出版，2012 年创刊，是一份同行评审开放获取期刊，通过可持续农业与食物系统研究应对全球粮食安全挑战，2025 年影响因子为 6.1

Scope

• The journal addresses the challenge of food security and publishes research with a particular focus on more sustainable agriculture and food systems期刊聚焦粮食安全挑战，重点发表有助于建设更可持续农业与食物系统的研究
• It serves the international agriculture community, from developing-world smallholders to biotechnological innovation服务对象涵盖国际农业界，既包括发展中国家的小农户，也包括生物技术创新
• Agricultural and environmental sciences, including genetics and systems ecology, are covered收录农业与环境科学，包括遗传学与系统生态学
• Global change, biodiversity and sustainability feature among its subject areas全球变化、生物多样性与可持续性是其报道领域之一
• Agricultural and food economics, policy, and food technology and innovation are included农业与食物经济、政策以及食品技术与创新均在范围之内
• Information sciences and decision theory, and health economics and policy for food and nutrition, are within scope信息科学与决策论，以及面向食物与营养的卫生经济与政策亦予收录
• Research that conveys policy implications and economic analysis is particularly encouraged特别鼓励能够提出政策含义与经济分析的研究

History

• The journal was launched in 2012 by BioMed Central, with the first articles announced in May 2012 and submissions opening in late 2011该刊由（BioMed Central）于 2012 年创办，首批论文于 2012 年 5 月公布，2011 年底开始接受投稿
• Its founding Editors-in-Chief were Malcolm Elliott, Molly Jahn and Magdy Madkour创刊主编为（Malcolm Elliott）、（Molly Jahn）与（Magdy Madkour）
• The journal launched as an open access title and publishes under Creative Commons licences, with an article publishing charge payable on acceptance期刊自创刊起即采用开放获取模式，论文依知识共享许可协议发布，录用后须缴纳文章出版费
• It publishes continuously rather than in fixed issues, and the median time from submission to first decision is nine days期刊采用连续出版而非固定期次，投稿至首次决定的中位时间为 9 天
• From 2025 the title sits within a new agriculture and livestock journal family alongside companion journals from the same publisher自 2025 年起，该刊与同一出版方的姊妹刊共同组成新的农业与畜牧期刊系列
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 5.4 in 2024 and 6.1 in 2025影响因子 2024 年为 5.4，2025 年为 6.1

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Fabio Santeramo of the University of Foggia in Italy现任主编为（Fabio Santeramo），任职于意大利福贾大学
• The senior editors are Raghavendra Bhatta of the National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology in India and Johann Kirsten of the University of Pretoria in South Africa资深编辑为印度国家动物营养与生理研究所的（Raghavendra Bhatta）与南非比勒陀利亚大学的（Johann Kirsten）
• Associate editors come from Israel, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa, Italy, China, Canada and Senegal, among other countries副编辑来自以色列、瑞士、英国、美国、南非、意大利、中国、加拿大与塞内加尔等国家
• Editorial board members work across agricultural economics, agronomy, genetics, nutrition and food policy编委的研究领域涵盖农业经济、农学、遗传学、营养学与食物政策
• Special collections are organised around themes such as building resilience through sustainable food environments and diets期刊围绕可持续食物环境与膳食的韧性建设等主题组织专题合集
• Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's online system and reviewed by independent experts稿件经出版方在线系统提交，由独立专家评审