o Marketing and Value chain

It is great pleasure to announce about the launch of a new journal providing a scholarly forum for the discussion of the most crucial issues of agricultural policy and food security. Journal of Agricultural Policy and Food Security (APFS) offers a mixture of refereed papers taking a systematic view of the sustainable crop production systems, sociology and economics of crop production, agricultural development and access to food & nutrition. The journal will cover the principles and practice of crop production systems and food security per se, taking an overview of the subject and analyzing it with a broad perspective over its many component disciplines. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal will probe the constraints- physical, biological, socio-economic and political- which not only limit crop and food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. APFS is crafted to become a world-class journal, publishing multi-disciplinary and geographically differentiated relationships between production systems, policy arenas and their inter-relationships. APFS aims to publish rigorous and original research on areas of agricultural policy and food security, which may include, but not confined to: o Crop production systems o Food quality and safety o Access to food and distribution o Fruits and vegetable production o GM foods o Biotechnology and breeding for food security o Value chain o Biofortification o Organic farmin