This volume of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Information leads with a guest editorial published by more than 250 scholarly journals, including 40 Taylor & Francis titles. Entitled Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change coordinated the effort. Associate Editor Suzanne Stapleton and I think that this journal’s emphasis is an appropriate match for a statement made by 11 Editors-in-Chief of leading health journals, which asks “the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss…must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency” (https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2355). Please take some time to read and consider this important message, and consider what your contribution to this effort might be.
In other journal content, Stewardson and Guffey author a Society of the Quarter column discussing the National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization and its work toward agricultural literacy: “A person who understands and can communicate the source and value of agriculture as it affects our quality of life” (https://agclassroom.org//). The volume presents two peer-reviewed research articles as well. Matthews et al. explore differing presentations of agricultural information in Agriculture-related courses in Canadian universities: how course outlines differ between social science and science faculties. For the super-searchers in our readership, we recommend The development of search filters for One Health articles using CAB Abstracts descriptors, by Williamson et al.
This is my final editorial as Editor-in-Chief of the journal. The next volume will be in the capable hands of Suzanne Stapleton and a talented Editorial Board composed of new and returning members: Marianne Stowell Bracke (Wayne State University), Sheila Bryant (Michigan State University), Florian Diekmann (Ohio State University), Shannon Farrell (University of Minnesota), Philip Herold (University of Minnesota), Jessica Page (Ohio State), Cynthia Parr (National Agricultural Library, Knowledge Services Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture), Lutishoor Salisbury (University of Arkansas), and Sarah Williams (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). I am grateful for the opportunities to serve as Editor for the past five years and to work with many talented authors, reviewers, and members of the Editorial Board. I send my best wishes to JAFI’s readers around the world as 2023 ends.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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