Call for papers/Topics

Topics of interest for submission include any topics related to:

1. Independent Core Disciplines

These represent the foundational pillars of each distinct field before they intersect with one another.

Agroecology and Soil Health: Cover cropping, conservation tillage, soil microbiome management, and nutrient cycling.
Water Resource Management: Drip irrigation, rainwater harvesting, and agricultural runoff mitigation.
Crop and Livestock Management: Integrated Pest Management (IPM), crop rotation, genetic diversity in seeds, and rotational grazing.
Renewable Energy in Farming: Solar-powered irrigation, biomass production, and electric farm machinery.

Food Availability and Supply Chains: Global crop yields, post-harvest storage solutions, and logistics of food distribution.
Economic Access and Affordability: Food pricing mechanisms, agricultural subsidies, poverty alleviation, and social safety nets.
Food Utilization and Stability: Dietary diversity, clean water access for food preparation, and resilience to seasonal or climate-driven food shortages.

Nutritional Epidemiology: The study of dietary patterns, malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and chronic diet-related diseases.
Environmental Health: Exposure to environmental toxins, air and water quality, and vector-borne disease dynamics.
Epidemiology and Disease Control: Infectious disease tracking, immunization, and healthcare infrastructure management.
Health Policy and Education: Public wellness campaigns, health literacy, and national healthcare resource allocation.

These subtopics exist at the intersections where two of these primary fields overlap and directly influence each other.

Climate-Resilient Crop Development: Breeding drought-tolerant and pest-resistant crops to secure long-term food supplies.
Sustainable Intensification: Methods to increase food production per unit of land without degrading the underlying ecosystems.
Localized Food Systems: Urban agriculture, vertical farming, and community-supported agriculture (CSA) to reduce transport vulnerabilities.
Food Waste Mitigation: Upcycling agricultural byproducts and optimizing harvesting techniques to preserve total caloric yields.

Malnutrition and Stunting: Addressing undernutrition, wasting, and developmental delays caused by insecure food access.
The Double Burden of Malnutrition: The co-existence of undernutrition along with obesity and overweight characteristics within the same community or individual.
Food Fortification: Enhancing staple foods with essential vitamins and minerals (e.g., iodized salt, iron-fortified flour) to combat widespread deficiencies.
Food Safety and Foodborne Illnesses: Regulating pathogens, chemical contaminants, and biological hazards in food storage and preparation.

Agrochemical Toxicology: Assessing the human health impacts of chronic exposure to synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): The public health risks stemming from the overuse of antibiotics in livestock and aquaculture.
Zoonotic Disease Prevention: Managing the livestock-wildlife interface to prevent the spillover of viruses from animals to humans.
Occupational Health for Farmers: Mitigating physical hazards, respiratory illnesses, and toxic exposures among agricultural laborers.

These complex fields merge all three disciplines to address comprehensive global challenges.

One Health Approach: A collaborative framework integrating veterinary medicine (agriculture), human medicine (public health), and environmental science to optimize health outcomes across all systems.
Sustainable Dietary Guidelines: Policy frameworks that recommend diets that are both nutritionally adequate for public health and have a low environmental footprint (e.g., planetary health diets).
Climate Change Adaption and Nutritional Security: Analyzing how rising atmospheric $CO_2$ levels alter the nutrient density of major staple crops, impacting global public health metrics and requiring adaptive farming interventions.
Regenerative Food Systems and Pandemic Resilience: Designing regional agricultural networks that actively restore ecosystem services, insulate local populations from global supply shocks, and eliminate conditions that breed zoonotic outbreaks