Journals

*The following list contains examples of journals where you can find agriculture, nutrition and health interdisciplinary papers, however it is by no means exhaustive.

Agriculture & Food Security
  • ​​​​Publisher: BMC part of Springer Nature
  • Description: 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.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Some articles open access
  • Themes: Environment, ecology, fisheries, animal husbandry, sustainability, food technology, food systems, agriculture, economics, information sciences, policy and practice, public health, nutrition, food security
Agricultural Economics
  • Publisher: Wiley Online Library
  • Description: Agricultural Economics is the journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.  The journal serves the IAAE by disseminating some of the most important research results and policy analyses in our discipline from around the world.  We aim to cover the economics of agriculture in its broadest sense, from food consumption and nutrition to land use and the environment, at every scale of analysis from households to markets and the macro-economy.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Some articles open access
  • Themes: Agricultural economics, food systems, nutrition, land use, environment
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Publisher: Oxford Academic
  • Description: The most highly rated peer-reviewed, primary research journal in nutrition and dietetics, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) publishes the latest research on topics in nutrition, such as obesity, vitamins and minerals, nutrition and disease, and energy metabolism.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Some articles are open access
  • Themes: Nutrition, dietetics, public health, epidemiology, genomics
Food Policy
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • Description: Food Policy is a multidisciplinary journal publishing original research and novel evidence on issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies for the food sector in developing, transition, and advanced economies. Our main focus is on the economic and social aspect of food policy, and we prioritize empirical studies informing international food policy debates. 
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open access
  • Themes: Food policy, food systems, nutrition, food security, humanitarian aid, food safety, food technology, environment, sustainability
Food Security
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Description: Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Some articles are open access
  • Themes: Food security, nutrition, environment, ecology, food systems, sustainability, food safety, food policy, fragile contexts
Global Food Security
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • Description: Global Food Security aims to publish papers that contribute to better understanding of economic, social, biophysical, technological, and institutional drivers of current and future global food security, nutrition and food systems. It aims to stimulate debate that is rooted in strong science, has strong interdisciplinary connections, and recognizes trade-offs that often occur as a result of reconciling competing objectives and outcomes that may differ depending on spatial and temporal scale.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Some articles are open access
  • Themes: Food security, nutrition, environment, ecology, food systems, sustainability, food safety, food policy, fragile contexts
Journal of Nutrition
  • Publisher: Oxford Academic
  • Description: The Journal of Nutrition (JN/J Nutr) publishes peer-reviewed original research papers covering all aspects of experimental nutrition in humans and other animal species; special articles such as reviews and biographies of prominent nutrition scientists; and issues, opinions, and commentaries on controversial issues in nutrition. Supplements are frequently published to provide extended discussion of topics of special interest.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Some articles are open access
  • Themes: Nutrition, public health, animal nutrition, One Health, maternal and child health
Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
  • Description: A leading journal in the field of rural politics and development, The Journal of Peasant Studies ( JPS) provokes and promotes critical thinking about social structures, institutions, actors and processes of change in and in relation to the rural world. It fosters inquiry into how agrarian power relations between classes and other social groups are created, understood, contested and transformed. JPS pays special attention to questions of ‘agency’ of marginalized groups in agrarian societies, particularly their autonomy and capacity to interpret – and change – their conditions.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Authors have the option to publish  Open Access
  • Themes: Political economy, livelihoods, agrarian change
Lancet Planetary Health
  • Publisher: The Lancet
  • Description: The Lancet Planetary Health, is a gold open access journal that seeks to be the pre-eminent journal for enquiry into sustainable human civilisations in the Anthropocene. As such, we publish peer reviewed research and reviews as well as comment, correspondence, and reportage broadly encompassing sustainable development (the SDG’s) and global environmental change. We particularly favour work that contributes to our understanding of, and transition into, a safe and just space for humanity, respecting planetary boundaries and the social and economic foundations of a healthy life. We are interested in all important aspects of societal development and its interaction with the environment including the drivers of change, the implications of those changes for people and society, and practical policies and interventions for a healthier planetary future.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open Access
  • Themes: Planetary health, food systems, sustainability, environment, ecology, social sciences, economics, food policy
Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • Publisher: Wiley Online Library
  • Description: Maternal & Child Nutrition addresses fundamental aspects of nutrition and its outcomes in women and their children, both in early and later life, and keeps its audience fully informed about new initiatives, the latest research findings and innovative ways of responding to changes in public attitudes and policy. Drawing from global sources, the Journal provides an invaluable source of up to date information for health professionals, academics and service users with interests in maternal and child nutrition. Its scope includes pre-conception, antenatal and postnatal maternal nutrition, women's nutrition throughout their reproductive years, and fetal, neonatal, infant, child and adolescent nutrition and their effects throughout life.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open access
  • Themes: Maternal and child health, nutrition, economics, food policy, implementation studies, food security, behaviour change
Nature Food
  • Publisher: Nature
  • Description: The world faces unprecedented challenges in sustaining the health of the planet and 10 billion people occupying it by 2050. Research from the many scientific disciplines in food production, processing, distribution and consumption is well established and growing — the food community now requires high-quality thematic resources for joined-up thinking on global food challenges and their solutions. Nature Food is a monthly online journal publishing top-tier original research, reviews, comments and opinions on the theme of food, crossing the disciplines of food-related research in the natural, applied and social sciences. 
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Some articles are open access
  • Themes: Food systems, sustainability, environment, ecology, social sciences
Nature Sustainability
  • Publisher: Nature
  • Description: Nature Sustainability publishes significant original research from a broad range of natural, social and engineering fields about sustainability, its policy dimensions and possible solutions. Understanding how to ensure the well-being of current and future generations within the limits of the natural world is the overarching goal of sustainability research. 
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Some articles are open access
  • Themes: Agriculture, food security, environment, sustainability, climate change, circular economy, public health
PLOS Global Public Health
  • Publisher: PLOS
  • Description: With the publication of PLOS Global Public Health, a global Open Access forum for public health research, we aim to reach across disciplines and regional boundaries to address the biggest health challenges and inequities facing our society today.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open Access
  • Themes: Global health delivery; infectious diseases; non-communicable diseases; race and health; mental health, laboratory medicine; maternal, newborn, and child health; nutrition; sexual and reproductive health and rights; Indigenous health; environmental and planetary health; evidence use and policy; global health governance; social and behavioral health; humanitarian aid and conflict/displacement; injuries, trauma and global surgery; global health financing and trade; gender and health; and global health security.
World Development
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • Description: World Development is a multi-disciplinary monthly journal of development studies. It seeks to explore ways of improving standards of living, and the human condition generally, by examining potential solutions to problems such as: poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, disease, lack of shelter, environmental degradation, inadequate scientific and technological resources, trade and payments imbalances, international debt, gender and ethnic discrimination, militarism and civil conflict, and lack of popular participation in economic and political life.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open access
  • Themes: Nutrition, food security, economics, gender, fragile contexts, poverty

 

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