Agriculture and Human Values

Aims & Scope

Agriculture and Human Values is the official journal of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society.

Since World War II, agricultural production systems and food consumption patterns have undergone astonishing changes.

Agricultural research, combined with high input, capital intensive, and trade-based applications, has expanded the productive capacity of the world's farms tremendously.

However, serious questions have been raised about the sustainability of industrial agricultural and food systems, about the criteria for judging the risks and benefits of chemical and biological technologies, about food safety, about the poor's entitlement to food in developed and developing countries, and about who will farm in the future and how.

The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society is an organization of professionals dedicated to an open and free discussion of these and other related issues and to an understanding of the values that shape and the structures that underlie alternative visions of current and future food and agricultural systems.

Agriculture and Human Values is the official journal of the Society.

Like the Society, it seeks to create educational and scholarly discussions across the humanities, the social sciences, food and nutrition studies, and the agricultural disciplines, and to promote an ethical, social and ecological understanding of agricultural and food systems.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.6
2024	3.50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4264

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1303

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.076

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Urban agriculture of the future: an overview of sustainability aspects of food production in and on buildings

  Citation: 466

  Authors: Kathrin, Rosemarie, Ina, Ulf B., Magdalena, Armin, Susanne, Dietrich, Heike, Axel

• Re-embedding global agriculture: The international organic and fair trade movements

  Citation: 357

  Authors: Laura T.

• Coming in to the foodshed

  Citation: 347

  Authors: Jack, John, G. W.

• Placing the food system on the urban agenda: The role of municipal institutions in food systems planning

  Citation: 334

  Authors: Kameshwari, Jerome L.

• Olive groves: ``The life and identity of the Mediterranean''

  Citation: 325

  Authors: Angeliki, Christina

• Food security and biodiversity: can we have both? An agroecological analysis

  Citation: 319

  Authors: Michael Jahi, Liliana A.

• Contributing to food security in urban areas: differences between urban agriculture and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North

  Citation: 315

  Authors: Ina, Regine, Annette, Thomas

• Culturing community development, neighborhood open space, and civic agriculture: The case of Latino community gardens in New York City

  Citation: 313

  Authors: Laura, Marianne E.

• How then shall we eat? Insect-eating attitudes and sustainable foodways

  Citation: 303

  Authors: Heather, Florence V., John R.

• A food regime analysis of the ‘world food crisis’

  Citation: 298

  Authors: Philip

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