New journal

Image: USDHHS, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

A timely boost to much of the research showcased in the previous items  – about the UKPSF’s conference earlier in 2012 – should come from BioMed Central’s newly launched Agriculture & Food Security, a peer-reviewed, open access journal that addresses the challenge of global food security. In keeping with the multi-disciplinary approaches such issues need, Agriculture & Food Security will publish ‘cutting-edge contributions across the breadth of relevant academic disciplines, including agricultural, ecological, environmental, nutritional, and socio-economic sciences, public health and policy’.