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Thematic Collections

From time to time, the Journal publishes Thematic Collections on topics of special interest. Watch out for collections that are currently open for submissions, and recent collections:


TSFC Hero image homepageToward Sustainable Food Consumption: Drivers, Patterns, and Effective Strategies
This collection aims to bring together cutting-edge research that critically explores the opportunities, challenges, and transformative solutions for enhancing the sustainability and health outcomes of individual food consumption patterns. We invite contributions focusing on food consumption and decision making from an economic perspective that offer actionable insights and strategies for more sustainable and health-promoting food systems.
Guest Editors: Claudia Bazzani (University of Verona), Maria De Salvo (University of Messina), Cristiano Franceschinis (University of Padova), Giovanna Piracci (University of Padova) and Camilla Sgroi (University of Bologna). Submission deadline: 30 June 2026.
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Innovative Strategies for Women's Empowerment in Agriculture
This Collection seeks to assemble innovative research that critically examines the opportunities, challenges, and transformative solutions for advancing gender equity within agricultural systems. Guest Editors: Stefano Corsi (University of Milan), Maria Sassi (University of Pavia), Chrysanthi Charatsari (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Submission deadline: 31 January 2026
 

Short Food Supply Chains and Transitions to Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems
This Collection aims to assemble recent research to critically evaluate the opportunities, obstacles and solutions for short food supply chains within the broad frame of transitions to sustainable and resilient food systems. Guest editors:  Andrea Marescotti (University of Florence, Italy), Christopher James Maughan (Coventry University, UK), Erik Mathijs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), Giovanni Belletti (University of Florence, Italy), Matteo Mengoni (University of Florence, Italy), Moya Kneafsey (Coventry University, UK). Submission Deadline: 31 December 2024
 

Food Systems Innovation in Africa
This Collection aims to include theoretical and empirical papers on economic, social, environmental, nutritional and political aspects that influence innovation towards more sustainable African food systems. In particular, it will consider fundamental research that contributes to the understanding of transition and change in food systems. Guest editors: Paolo Prosperi (Montpellier Interdisciplinary Center on Sustainable Agri-food Systems), Mila Sell (Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke), Kaleab Baye (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia). Submission Deadline: 31 December 2024

Past Thematic Collections collections on topics of special interest are available for consultation:

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Aims and scope

Agricultural and Food Economics is an international peer-reviewed journal published on behalf of the Italian Society of Agricultural Economics. The editors welcome high-quality, problem-oriented submissions on agriculture and food from a wide variety of socio-economic perspectives and from all over the world. 
Completely open access, the journal publishes original research and review articles with innovative results and relevant policy and managerial implications, based on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies.
Topics of interest include sustainable food systems, food and nutrition security, agricultural and food policy, environmental impacts of agricultural and food activities, market analysis, agri-food firm management and marketing, organization of the agri-food value chains, behavioral economics, food quality and safety issues, food and health economics, trade, sustainable rural development, natural and marine resource economics, and land economics.

Society affiliation

Agricultural and Food Economics is sponsored by SIDEA (Società Italiana di Economia Agraria | Italian Society of Agricultural Economics). 

SIDEA's mission is to contribute to an efficient farm and agrifood sector promoting free, independent, and original research in the field of agricultural economics.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief: Gaetano Martino, University of Perugia, Italy. The full Editorial Board is available at this page.

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Policy and practitioners’ initiatives to stimulate sustainable consumption have so far failed to have notable impact on individuals’ behaviors. The current commentary is a plea to social and sustainability scientists, particularly to economists dealing with sustainable agri-food systems, to dig deeper into the notion of narratives to trigger societal dynamics that stir consumers toward more sufficient lifestyles. As dominant cultural narratives have a critical role in shaping shared meanings and acceptable behaviors... Click here to read the full text of the latest Commentary by M. Borrello, L. Cembalo, & V. D'Amico.

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Agricultural and Food Economics is a 100% Gold Open Access journal. Articles published in Gold OA format confer CC-BY copyright to the author and are immediately available to be read, cited, and built upon by all. APCs are charged on article acceptance. For further details, see our article-processing charge webpage. 

Publishing is not without costs, and the journal levies the 2023 APC of £1090.00/$1590.00/€1240.00 for each article accepted for publication. However, authors do not typically pay the fee themselves, and the way your APC is covered has no bearing on the editorial outcome of your submission. 

Did you know that there are almost 200 open access article processing charge (APC) funds available to researchers worldwide? Many funding bodies require that research publications resulting from their grants are made freely available to all. By publishing your research with us you fully comply with open access mandates, and the publishing costs may be entirely covered by the research grant. This means that you won’t have to pay any publishing fee and you retain the copyright (check here how to discover more). 

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Sponsorship

From 2023 to 2027, SIDEA members pay €200.  To receive this funding, members should contact the journal to receive instructions.  

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  • Citation Impact 
    Journal Impact Factor: 4.5 (2024)   
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 4.7 (2024)    
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.487 (2024)    
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.847 (2024)

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