About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Agriculture Society and Development is a bilingual, open access, quarterly journal, published in Early Access and edited by the Colegio de Postgraduados, with the aim of disseminating the results of scientific research carried out by academics and researchers from Mexico and from all over the world focused mainly on sociological, anthropological and cultural research themes related to agriculture and its protagonists. The main issues that Agriculture, Society and Development publishes are nutrition, migration, sustainability, land tenure, peasant economy, gender, formal education, training, intra-family relations, unemployment and other similar issues related to the rural environment. Agriculture Society and Development, receives articles and essays in English or Spanish to be evaluated through a double-blind peer arbitration process, which, when accepted and edited, will be translated into English or Spanish, as the case may be. Contributions must be unpublished, and should not be under simultaneous evaluation by another journal, if this is the case they will be rejected. The articles, before being submitted to blind peer review, will first be analyzed through anti-plagiarism software (Turnitin) verifying the originality of the contribution.

Peer review evaluation process

The specialized arbitration of a contribution submitted for evaluation in Agriculture, Society and Development, is a determining element in the editorial process. The arbitration requires the critical, objective and impartial evaluation of the contribution, in terms of its validity and compliance with the generally accepted principles of current scientific methodology, and its adherence to the authors rules, as well as to the originality and up to date of the work. A general principle indicates that in any research the problem or topic to be studied must de first identified. Immediately, the existing knowledge will be compiled to locate its importance, the current state of knowledge about the problem and postulate the pertinent hypothesis.

Once the above has been achieved, the researcher will specify the objectives and apply the appropriate methods to test the hypothesis, so that the results will have as their main function the hypothesis evaluation. These principles are ideal but, in practice, reviewers often have to evaluate poorly written manuscripts of dubious scientific quality. For example, testing the hypothesis is often omitted, explicitly or implicitly; in other cases, methods are used that do not allow the proposed objectives to be achieved, generally as a consequence of the objectives being poorly described.

The presentation of conclusions not supported by the obtained data but rather based on the author's speculations is also common. All those involved in the editorial work of a scientific journal, at their levels of responsibility, have the obligation to collaborate so that the published works contain objective and verified information in accordance with current scientific standards. In addition, the information must be presented in a coherent, clear, precise, and grammatically correct manner. For this, there is a body of referees and editors, as well as style reviewers.

In each scientific journal, a series of presentation characteristics is selected, and compliance is verified for each and every one of the contributions, numbers and published volumes. In other words, the quality of its presentation must also be monitored. For this reason, arbitration must be done with dedication and care.

Hence, and considering the effort that arbitration requires, in Agriculture, Society and Development, the opinion of the arbitrator is recognized and valued as essential to rule on the corrections that authors must make as a requirement to achieve final acceptance of a contribution.

The referees will be selected among national and foreign specialists with recognized knowledge on the subject of the article. In the selection, preference will be given to those academics who have a doctoral degree and, in the case of Mexico, who belong to the National System of Researchers (SNI).

Each article will be evaluated by two referees in a double-blind scheme, the result of the evaluation can be: 1) Approved without changes; 2) Approved with minor changes; 3) Approved with major changes; and 4) Rejected. In case of controversy the article will be sent to an editor for the final decision.

Open Access policy

The Agriculture Society and Development journal provides open access to each of its published articles, based on the principle of offering the public free access to each of the research with the aim of helping to promote greater global exchange of knowledge. That is why the user can read, copy, download, print, distribute or create links to the full texts of the articles or use them for any legal purpose, without any cost and without requesting prior permission from the author of the document or editor of the journal, but it is requested that the authors of the texts used be acknowledged and punctually cited.

Agriculture Society and Development

Colegio de Postgraduados, which is a teaching and research institution in agricultural sciences, through Agriculture Society and Development, and on a quarterly basis, publishes scientific and technical contributions and documented opinion essays on various aspects of agriculture and rural development, prioritizing socioeconomic aspects such as nutrition, in-country and abroad migration, sustainability, land tenure, peasant economy, gender, formal education, training, intra-family relations and unemployment in rural areas, among others.

Authorship and contribution policy

Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:

The authors retain the copyright but transfer the right to the first publication, and the work is registered with the Creative Commons attribution license (CC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0) to the journal Agriculture, Society and Development which permits third parties, to use what has been published, as long as they mention the authorship of the work and its first publication in this journal.
The authors may make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal, (e.g., including it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), as long as they clearly indicate that the work was published for the first time in this journal
The authors assume full responsibility for the opinions presented in the article and guarantee that they do not contain anything that violates the copyright, literary or property rights of third parties.
The authors confirm that they have carefully read the Editorial Standards or Guidelines for Authors and comply with these.
The authors and co-authors agree on the order and appearance and on the contribution that each one made, when writing the article.
Authors are allowed and recommended to publish their work on the Internet (for example, on institutional or personal pages), once their article is published.
All submitted works will be passed to the anti-plagiarism program (Turnitin) and those that have a maximum of 20% similarity will be accepted.

Legal Headband

COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS, Agriculture, Society and Development is a quarterly publication edited by Colegio de Postgraduados. Carretera México-Texcoco Km. 36.5, Montecillo, Texcoco 56230, State of Mexico, Tel. 222285 1445 ext, 2071. www.colpos.mx. Responsible editor: Dr. Benito Ramírez Valverde. Reserve of Rights for Exclusive Use No. 04-2016-022412384800-102. ISSN:1870-5472, e-ISSN: 2594-0244 both granted by the National Institute of Copyright. Date of last modification, January 26, 2025.

The opinions expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the position of the publisher of the publication.

Storage and Preservation.

The Agriculture, Society and Development Magazine carries out the preservation of the articles through of LOCKSS Y CLOCKSS.

Publication costs

Dear Author:

As of January 2020, Colegio de Postgraduados Journals: Agroscience, Agroproductivity, and Agriculture, Society and Development, request for each article accepted for publication, a fee of $8,000.00* (Eight thousand pesos 00/100 MN), for the editing, layout and DOI markup.

Bank Account:

- Bank Name: BBVA
- Account Number: 0125326184
- CLABE: 012180001253261846
- SWIFT Code: BCMRMXMMPYM

- Account Name: COLPOS ING RECURSOS PROP

The translation into English or Spanish (it is independent of the payment for publication) will be paid by the authors themselves, after the quote has been sent by the magazine's translator.

*Payments for publication and translation are independent

The deposit or bank transfer slip must be sent scanned to: [email protected] with a copy to [email protected]

* Articles by Colegio de Postgraduados professors or students in first authorship, are exempt from payment for publication, they will only have to make the payment for translation corresponding to their article.

At the end of the publication you will be able to consult your article and full issue at: https://revista-asyd.org/index.php/asyd

Sincerely

Consortium of Institutional Journals

Colegio de Postgraduados

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