The December 2025 issue of environmental SCIENTIST, Fields of Change, is now available open access on the website.
This issue of environmental SCIENTIST considers the interlinked, complex, crucial systems of agriculture and food production. This edition examines the potential for resilience, innovation, and transformation of our agricultural and food practices and systems, in the context of mounting pressures such as extreme weather, changing crop pathologies, an increasing global population, and pollinator decline.
As systems approaches to emerging challenges in our environment become ever more vital, this issue of the journal takes a multi-disciplinary approach in investigating how agriculture is responding to challenges like green energy and water use, pesticides and weed control, and crop adaptation to changing climates.
Through their articles in this issue, authors respond to questions over how policy, technology, and behavioural change can shape the future of farming and our food systems, and whether we can adapt our practices in time to achieve a sustainable relationship with farming and food production.
Download the Journal (PDF) and Teaching Resource (docx) for this edition.
