FFTC Agricultural Policy (FFTC-AP) Platform Call for Papers

The establishment of the FFTC Agricultural Policy (FFTC-AP) Platform in 2013 is directed toward collecting and disseminating the latest information on agricultural policies from various countries in the Asian and Pacific region, including Australia, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, etc. The information sources include invited and submitted analytic and research papers by agricultural professionals and policy experts mainly in Asia, as well as the latest news from academic and country reports. The main objective of the FFTC-AP Platform is to establish a database of national agricultural policies for sharing and exchanging agricultural policy information across different countries.

To date, more than a thousand articles have been published in the Platform under 30 categories. The categories include topics such as Food security and safety, Overview of agricultural policy, Production policy, Smart agriculture, Farmers' welfare and retirement system, Agricultural human resources development, Agricultural science policies and technology development, Agricultural marketing policy, Agricultural e-commerce, Trade liberalization countermeasures, Import regulation and quarantine, Agricultural circular economy, Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi), and Rural development, etc.

There are two ways to publish your papers on FFTC-AP Platform:

1. Submit manuscripts to contracted partners (please click here for their contact information).

2. Submit manuscripts directly to FFTC.

Once papers are accepted and published on the FFTC-AP Platform, authors will receive remuneration at a rate of New Taiwan Dollars (NTD) 2.4 per word, up to a maximum of NTD10,000 per paper. In case of remittance in USD, the exchange rate at the time of remittance will be applied. The word count does NOT include author profiles, references, figures, photos and pictures.

The manuscript format can be found here. Please kindly follow the instructions and submit in Word format (.doc or .docx), including all text, figures, and tables for review and editing. Author(s) of the manuscript are required to read and agree to the terms and conditions of the FFTC-AP Platform Copyright Assignment Agreement.

We warmly invite experts in related agricultural fields to submit agricultural policy-related papers (1,500–4,000 words) for consideration.

All the manuscripts will be under paper review, which is coordinated by FFTC-AP contracted partners and the FFTC-AP management team. The authors should then revise their articles, according to reviewers’ comments, and send back to the original contact channel.

For more information on paper submission, please contact Ms. Natalie Lu via natalielupy@fftc.org.tw