OUTLOOK ON AGRICULTURE
Scope & Guideline
Empowering Research for Global Agricultural Solutions
Introduction
Aims and Scopes
- Sustainable Agricultural Practices:
This area includes research on techniques and strategies that promote long-term agricultural sustainability, focusing on environmental stewardship, resource conservation, and resilience to climate change. - Socio-economic Dynamics in Agriculture:
Investigates the social and economic factors affecting agricultural practices, including farmer behavior, market access, and the role of cooperatives in enhancing productivity. - Gender and Agriculture:
Explores the role of gender in agricultural systems, addressing issues such as gendered access to resources, decision-making processes, and empowerment within agricultural value chains. - Technological Innovations in Agriculture:
Focuses on the adoption and impact of new technologies, including precision agriculture, digital tools, and genetic improvements, on agricultural productivity and sustainability. - Food Security and Policy Analysis:
Examines the relationship between agricultural practices, food security, and policy frameworks, assessing how policies can support sustainable agricultural development. - Agroecological Approaches:
Promotes research on agroecological practices that integrate ecological principles into agricultural systems, highlighting their potential for improving productivity while maintaining ecological balance.
Trending and Emerging
- Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience:
There is an increasing focus on how agricultural systems can adapt to climate change, including research on adaptive practices, policies, and technologies that enhance resilience among farmers. - Digital Agriculture and Technology Adoption:
Emerging themes around the role of digital tools and technologies in agriculture, particularly their impact on smallholder farmers' productivity and access to markets, are gaining traction. - Multi-Stakeholder Approaches:
Research exploring collaboration among various stakeholders, including farmers, NGOs, and policymakers, is becoming more prominent, reflecting the need for integrated solutions to complex agricultural challenges. - Food Systems Transformation:
An emerging trend is the examination of holistic food systems transformation, addressing the interconnectedness of production, consumption, and sustainability in agricultural practices. - Social Equity and Empowerment in Agriculture:
There is a growing emphasis on social equity, particularly regarding gender dynamics and the empowerment of marginalized groups within agricultural value chains, highlighting the importance of inclusive practices.
Declining or Waning
- Traditional Agricultural Practices:
Research focusing solely on conventional farming methods is becoming less frequent, as there is a growing emphasis on innovative, sustainable, and agroecological practices that address modern challenges. - Single Crop Focus:
Studies that concentrate exclusively on single crops are declining. The journal is increasingly favoring research that examines diversified agricultural systems and their benefits for sustainability and resilience. - Static Policy Analysis:
Traditional policy analysis that does not consider the dynamic and evolving nature of agricultural challenges and opportunities is waning. There is a shift towards more adaptive and integrated policy frameworks that respond to changing conditions. - Historical Agricultural Practices:
Research focusing on historical perspectives without connections to current agricultural challenges and innovations is decreasing, as the journal seeks to maintain relevance in contemporary discourse. - Overly Technical Studies:
Papers that are too technical and lack practical implications or applicability in real-world settings are being published less frequently, as the journal aims to bridge the gap between research and practice.
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