Global Smart Food Systems is a cutting edge, inter-/trans- disciplinary gold open access journal that delves into the intricate web of food systems worldwide. GSFS focuses on innovations and technological advancements in food production, distribution, manufacturing, nutrition, marketing, and sustainability and their impact on local and global economies and related policies. By examining power dynamics, equity, sustainability, and associated governance, actors, and drivers we aim to transform the “Plate-to consumer-to planet” paradigm and work towards the achievement of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs).

The article processing charge (APC) will be waived for content submitted to this journal before 31st October 2025

Aims and scope

Our vision is to foster smart, nutrition-sensitive, resilient, and intelligent food systems that benefit both humanity and the environment. Your research should contribute to and advance studies that contribute to a fairer and more sustainable food systems, covering all aspects from primary production to consumption to waste management.

Of equal importance, your research should be of value to practitioners, communicators, and policy makers as well as the academic community for the improvement of education, and the design of smart practices and significant policies. All article types and methodologies will be considered where content is rigorous and relevant to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. By examining food systems through a power transdisciplinary dynamic lens, researchers, decision- & policy- makers, and civic-minded citizens, can better understand the underlying structures of food systems and work towards creating more smart, healthy, sustainable, resilient, and impartial systems for all.

This peer-reviewed journal welcomes inter- and trans- disciplinary research from the natural, social and life sciences exploring traditional, modern, and mixed food systems across the Global North and Global South. By analysing their interplay with economic, social, environmental, and health systems your research should provide insights into their continuous evolution and adaptation.

Global Smart Food Systems is a platform that uses a unique comprehensive food systems approach to explore not only technology but also the ethical and sustainable impacts of smart systems on food equity and further related environments. Other areas of focus include but are not limited to:

Governance in food systems (local, national, public, private, civic, hybrid)
Inter-disciplinarity and trans-disciplinarity research in food systems
Food systems drivers for structural change
Global thinking and local acting in food systems (globalisation, acculturation)
Anthropology in food systems (sociology, culture, communities)
Economic viability and consumerism (behavioural economics, e-commerce)
Industrial trends (food, fashion, technology, media) and their impact on food systems
Resilient food production
Food intelligence and food industrialisation
Food businesses and branding
Marketing and advertisement in food systems
Nutrition, sustainable diets, and health (food citizenship, food sovereignty)
Smart technologies, AI, Big Data in food systems to optimise food production, distribution, and supply chains
Knowledge management and knowledge exchange in food systems (education, media, science journalism)
Media and communication (constructing the public understanding of/behavior in smart food systems)
Water-Energy-Food-Environment nexus in food systems
Global climate change and smart food systems
Links to SDGs (food security, food safety, good health and wellbeing via better nutrition and responsible consumption)
Sustainability and ethics in smart food systems and related environments
Innovative practices grounded in ecological system approaches and broad-based methodologies
Politics, policies, and indicators of sustainable food systems