Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems is a subscription-based, peer-reviewed journal from Taylor & Francis, founded in 1990 as the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and renamed in 2013, devoted to agroecology as the foundation for transformative food system change. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4 and its CiteScore is 5.2.《农业生态学与可持续食物系统》是 Taylor & Francis 出版的订阅制同行评审期刊，1990 年以 Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 之名创刊，2013 年改为现名，把农业生态学视为整个食物系统变革的基础。2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，CiteScore 为 5.2。

Scope

• Agroecology here means more than new or improved farming practices and the on-farm management of natural resources. The journal defines it as the ecology of the entire food system.本刊所说的农业生态学不止于新的或改良的耕作方式与农场内自然资源管理，被定义为整个食物系统的生态学。
• That definition runs along paired scales, from the field to the table, from growers and processors to consumers, from urban to rural, from farm policy to food policy, and from local to global.这一定义沿着成对的尺度展开，从田间到餐桌，从种植者与加工者到消费者，从城市到乡村，从农场政策到食物政策，从地方到全球。
• Agroecology has grown into a broad transdisciplinary field that joins science, practice and the movements driving change in every part of the food system.农业生态学已演变为宽泛的跨学科领域，把科学、实践与推动食物系统各环节变革的运动结合起来。
• The scope is food-system wide, bridging farm to global and production to consumption, and it takes in the communities, institutions and knowledge systems the food system holds.范围覆盖整个食物系统，连接农场与全球、生产与消费，也把这一系统所容纳的社群、机构与知识体系纳入其中。
• Work may come from the biophysical, social or inter- and transdisciplinary areas, and co-created or community-led research that embodies agroecological tenets is prioritized.来稿可以出自生物物理、社会或交叉与跨学科方向，体现农业生态学要义的共创研究与社区主导研究获得优先考虑。
• The editors particularly welcome writing from Indigenous scholars and organizers, laborers across the food system, civil society groups and activist communities of scholarship.编辑部尤其欢迎原住民学者与组织者来稿，食物系统各环节的劳动者、公民社会组织与学术行动社群同样在欢迎之列。
• Approaches not labelled agroecology still qualify when they are on-farm, participatory, change-oriented and critical, provided the manuscript shows how farmers took part or why participation was not reasonable.未以农业生态学自称的研究同样可以投来，前提是研究扎根农场、采用参与式方法并面向变革，同时带有批判性，稿件须说明农民如何参与，或解释参与为何不可行。
• Work built mainly on surveys, modelling, laboratory or experiment station studies is seldom published, nor is indicator or species-distribution research that stays non-participatory or adds nothing beyond the system studied.主要依靠问卷与模型的研究很少发表，依托实验室与试验站的研究同样少见。不具参与性且对所研究系统之外提不出新见的指标与物种分布研究，也不在收录之列。
• Papers on sustainable or organic agriculture, resource efficiency or input substitution are not published unless they explicitly engage agroecological principles and design, since many other venues exist for that work.只谈可持续农业或有机农业、资源效率与投入替代的论文不予发表，除非明确处理农业生态学原理与设计，这类工作另有大量发表渠道。
• Reviews and meta-analyses are accepted only when they offer a novel synthesis that supports agroecological transformation, and each must state an explicit hypothesis, question or objective.综述与元分析只有在提供支持农业生态转型的新综合时才被接受，且须写明明确的研究假设、问题或目标。
• Indigenous research must set out in its methods section the principles and protocols agreed with communities, whether a memorandum of understanding, a co-created protocol or the CARE principles for data sovereignty.原住民研究须在方法部分交代与社区商定的原则与协议，可以是一份谅解备忘录、共同制定的研究规程，也可以采用 CARE 原则处理数据主权。
• Four of the eight themes cover agroecosystem design and evaluation, Indigenous knowledge and practice, organic and alternative systems, and the economic, social and philosophical aspects of agroecology, including multifunctional landscapes and ecological function.所列八个主题里有四个分别涉及农业生态系统设计与评价，原住民知识与实践，有机农业等替代系统与农业生态学的关系，以及农业生态学的经济、社会与哲学面向，兼及多功能景观与生态功能。
• The other four are agriculture and global climate change, future projections and policy options, critical engagement with technology and technological change, and racial and socioeconomic justice in food systems.其余四个主题是农业与全球气候变化，未来情景与政策选项，对技术与技术变革的批判性审视，以及食物系统中的种族与社会经济正义。
• Readers include scientists at international, national and state research stations, educators and students, farmers and food workers, planners, policymakers, community organizations, social movements and the concerned public.读者包括国际、国家与州级农业试验站的科研人员，教育工作者与学生，农民与食品从业者，规划者与政策制定者，社区组织与社会运动，以及关心食物系统的公众。
• Five article types are accepted: research articles and review articles of up to 10,000 words, commentaries of 3,500 words, book reviews of 2,000 words and editorials by the editors.可投的稿件类型有五种，研究论文与综述各以 10000 词为上限，评论 3500 词，书评 2000 词，社论由本刊编辑撰写。
• Special issues gather six to ten articles in one issue with a framing introduction, while collections draw on an open call and publish on a rolling basis, and dialogue pieces run alongside the articles.专号把 6 至 10 篇文章集中在同一期并配一篇定调导论，专题集则从公开征稿中汇集稿件，以仅在线形式滚动发表，对话类稿件与常规文章并行刊出。

History

• The title began in 1990 as the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, a name it kept for 36 volumes, and its first volume carries the dates 1990-1991 on the cover.本刊 1990 年以 Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 之名创办，这个名字沿用了 36 卷，第 1 卷的封面年份写作 1990 至 1991 年。
• It took its present name in 2013, when volume 37 opened under Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, a change the issues page records as publication history.2013 年刊物改用现名，第 37 卷起以《农业生态学与可持续食物系统》出版，卷期页把这处变动记入出版沿革。
• Volume numbering has run without a break from the first issue, so volume 36 covers 2012 and volume 50 covers 2026, which places the title in its fourth decade.卷号自创刊以来连续不断，2012 年对应第 36 卷，2026 年出到第 50 卷，本刊由此进入第四个十年。
• Early volumes often straddled two calendar years, among them volume 1 for 1990-1991, volume 2 for 1992-1993, volume 21 for 2002-2003 and volume 35 for 2010-2011.早期卷常跨两个日历年，第 1 卷为 1990 至 1991 年，第 2 卷为 1992 至 1993 年，第 21 卷为 2002 至 2003 年，第 35 卷为 2010 至 2011 年。
• Some years produced two volumes, as in 2005, when volumes 25 and 26 both carry that date, and in 2006, when volumes 27 and 28 do, though the schedule later returned to one volume a year.有些年份一年出两卷，2005 年的第 25 卷与第 26 卷都标这一年，2006 年的第 27 卷与第 28 卷同样如此，此后的安排回到一年一卷。
• Since 2012 the journal has settled into one volume a year, and the 2025 volume, the 49th, ran to issue 10, which gives ten issues a year.2012 年起改为一年一卷，2025 年的第 49 卷出到第 10 期，可见每年出版 10 期。
• Taylor & Francis publishes the title, the copyright line names Informa UK Limited, the publication office sits in Philadelphia, and the identifiers are 2168-3565 in print and 2168-3573 online.刊物由 Taylor & Francis 出版，版权登记在 Informa UK Limited 名下，出版办公室设在费城，印刷版 ISSN 为 2168-3565，电子版为 2168-3573。
• The journal follows a subscription route with Open Select as an option, so authors who stay with the subscription model pay nothing, and every accepted paper earns 50 free eprints.刊物走订阅路线并开放 Open Select 选项，选择订阅模式发表的作者不承担费用，每篇录用文章的作者可获得 50 份免费电子抽印本。
• The Journal Impact Factor moved from 2.615 in 2022 to 2.4 in 2023, 2.6 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025, while the five-year figure stands at 3.0 and the Journal Citation Indicator at 0.45.期刊影响因子从 2022 年的 2.615 变为 2023 年的 2.4，2024 年回升到 2.6，2025 年为 2.4，五年影响因子为 3.0，期刊引文指标为 0.45。
• The two JCR categories diverge: in the agriculture, multidisciplinary category the title sits 31st of 95 in Q2, while green and sustainable science and technology places it 96th of 114 in Q4.两个 JCR 类目的位置差别明显，农业综合类把本刊排在第 31 位（共 95 种），属 Q2，绿色与可持续科学与技术类排在第 96 位（共 114 种），属 Q4。
• Scopus gives it a CiteScore of 5.2 and a Q1 place, with SNIP at 1.031 and SJR at 0.678, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports put its percentile at 67.9.Scopus 给出的 CiteScore 为 5.2，处于 Q1，SNIP 为 1.031，SJR 为 0.678，2025 年期刊引证报告给出的百分位为 67.9。
• The review clock runs long: 183 days on average to a first decision, 206 days to a first post-review decision, and 12 days from acceptance to online publication.审稿周期较长，投稿到首次决定平均 183 天，到首轮审后决定平均 206 天，录用后 12 天上线。
• About 98 articles appear each year, the citation base is 2,276 and the cited half-life is 6.2 years, with 258,000 downloads and an acceptance rate of 11 per cent.每年发文约 98 篇，总被引 2276 次，被引半衰期 6.2 年，年下载量 25.8 万次，录用率为 11%。

Editors

• Stephen R. Gliessman, professor emeritus at the University of California Santa Cruz, is the editor, and the masthead lists him alone at the top rather than a group of co-editors.主编为 Stephen R. Gliessman，他是加州大学圣克鲁兹分校（University of California Santa Cruz）荣休教授，刊头顶端只列他一人，不设联席主编。
• Five associate editors assist him. Debal Deb works at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Kolkata, and Bruce Ferguson at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in Chiapas, Mexico.副编辑共五位，Debal Deb 任职于加尔各答的跨学科研究中心（Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies），Bruce Ferguson 任职于墨西哥恰帕斯的边境学院（El Colegio de la Frontera Sur）。
• The other three are Estelí Jiménez-Soto of the University of South Florida, Maywa Montenegro of the University of California Santa Cruz and Theresa Ong of Dartmouth College.另外三位是南佛罗里达大学的 Estelí Jiménez-Soto、加州大学圣克鲁兹分校的 Maywa Montenegro 与达特茅斯学院的 Theresa Ong。
• The Board of Editors runs to about 130 names arranged by country, from Argentina and Australia through Cuba, Ethiopia and Iran to Uganda and Venezuela, and the largest national groups are those of the United States, Mexico and England.编委会约 130 人，按国别编排，从阿根廷与澳大利亚起，经古巴与埃塞俄比亚，一直排到乌干达与委内瑞拉，美国、墨西哥与英格兰三组人数最多。
• China is represented by Xin Chen of Zhejiang University, Tang Huajun of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Feng-Min Li of Lanzhou University and Lou Shiming of South China Agricultural University.中国编委包括浙江大学的 Xin Chen 与中国农业科学院的 Tang Huajun，兰州大学的 Feng-Min Li 和华南农业大学的 Lou Shiming 也在名单上。
• Brazil supplies four names, among them Paulo Petersen of the Brazilian Agroecology Association, Ricardo H.S. Santos of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa and Ilyas Siddique of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.巴西编委有四位，其中包括巴西农业生态学会的 Paulo Petersen 与维索萨联邦大学的 Ricardo H.S. Santos，圣卡塔琳娜联邦大学的 Ilyas Siddique 也在其中。
• Mexico carries a large delegation, among them Peter M. Rosset of the Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico, Marta Astier Calderón of UNAM and Bruce Ferguson.墨西哥编委人数较多，墨西哥农村变化研究中心的 Peter M. Rosset 与墨西哥国立自治大学的 Marta Astier Calderón 在列，Bruce Ferguson 同样属于墨西哥组。
• Italy adds six, including Paola Migliorini of the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Paolo Benincasa of Perugia and Pierre Ferrand of the Food and Agriculture Organization.意大利编委有六位，其中包括美食科学大学的 Paola Migliorini 与佩鲁贾大学的 Paolo Benincasa，联合国粮农组织的 Pierre Ferrand 也在其中。
• The United States contributes the largest group, among them Miguel Altieri of Berkeley, Ivette Perfecto of Michigan, John Vandermeer, Timothy Crews of the Land Institute and Stacy Philpott of Santa Cruz.美国编委人数最多，其中有伯克利的 Miguel Altieri 与密歇根大学的 Ivette Perfecto，John Vandermeer 与土地研究所的 Timothy Crews 也在列，圣克鲁兹的 Stacy Philpott 同样在内。
• Every manuscript gets an initial appraisal from the editor before it goes to independent anonymous referees, and the journal states that all peer review is anonymized.每篇稿件先由编辑作初步评估，通过后送交独立匿名评审人，本刊声明所有同行评审均匿名进行。
• Submissions run through ScholarOne Manuscripts and are screened with Crossref for unoriginal material, and the publisher belongs to COPE.投稿经 ScholarOne Manuscripts 提交，并由 Crossref 筛查重复内容，出版方为 COPE 成员。
• Papers may carry Sustainable Development Goal keywords that the journal uses for tagging, and authors submit CRediT roles, which are printed with the article.论文可以带上可持续发展目标关键词，本刊据此给文章打标，作者提交的 CRediT 贡献角色随文章一同刊出。
• Beyond research and review articles, the journal runs book reviews that are usually invited, a news watch, announcements, topical reviews and a dialogue section for positions, opinions, commentary and letters.除研究论文与综述外，本刊还设书评、新闻观察、公告与专题综述，另有一个对话栏目，容纳立场、观点、评论与来信，书评多由编辑约稿。
• Generative AI is restricted to language improvement, and any such use must be acknowledged, a rule the editors tie to the intellectual labour that scholarship requires.生成式 AI 只允许用于语言润色，任何此类使用都须声明，编辑把这条规定与学术工作所需的智识劳动联系在一起。