《瓦赫寧根生命科學(xué)雜志》自1952年出版以來，是荷蘭皇家農(nóng)業(yè)科學(xué)學(xué)會(huì)的季刊。NJAS致力于成為農(nóng)業(yè)生產(chǎn)、糧食和營養(yǎng)安全以及自然資源管理等復(fù)雜而持久問題的跨學(xué)科和跨學(xué)科研究的主要科學(xué)平臺(tái)。這些領(lǐng)域的社會(huì)和技術(shù)挑戰(zhàn)要求研究將科學(xué)學(xué)科結(jié)合起來，并找到方法和概念框架的新組合。此外，這些問題和挑戰(zhàn)的綜合性質(zhì)適合跨學(xué)科研究方法，這些方法嵌入與政策和實(shí)踐的建設(shè)性互動(dòng)中，并跨越科學(xué)和社會(huì)之間的邊界。參與社會(huì)辯論并創(chuàng)造決策空間是研究新型農(nóng)業(yè)食品技術(shù)或政策的各種影響的一項(xiàng)重要任務(wù)。國際糧食和營養(yǎng)安全的性質(zhì)(如全球價(jià)值鏈、標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化、貿(mào)易),環(huán)境問題(如氣候變化或競相宣稱在自然資源),和農(nóng)業(yè)相關(guān)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)(如植物和動(dòng)物疾病的傳播)挑戰(zhàn)研究者不僅關(guān)注低水平的聚合,但肯定使用跨學(xué)科研究來解開尺度之間的聯(lián)系或在較高的聚合動(dòng)力學(xué)分析。NJAS認(rèn)識(shí)到，在農(nóng)業(yè)、食品和環(huán)境領(lǐng)域，跨學(xué)科和跨學(xué)科研究的需求得到了廣泛承認(rèn)，政策制定者和實(shí)踐者也越來越多地表達(dá)了這一需求，需要一個(gè)平臺(tái)，讓創(chuàng)造性的研究人員和創(chuàng)新思維發(fā)揮作用。該雜志旨在為深入、批判性和開放性的討論提供空間，促進(jìn)跨學(xué)科和跨學(xué)科研究方法在農(nóng)業(yè)和生命科學(xué)中的發(fā)展和應(yīng)用。此外，NJAS旨在就研究和知識(shí)在原型、設(shè)計(jì)、測試和分析使農(nóng)業(yè)、糧食和營養(yǎng)安全在農(nóng)學(xué)、環(huán)境、政治、社會(huì)和經(jīng)濟(jì)意義上可持續(xù)所需的不同干預(yù)和管理戰(zhàn)略方面的作用展開討論。NJAS特別鼓勵(lì)(年輕的)科學(xué)家團(tuán)隊(duì)開發(fā)面向問題的特殊問題，這表明了跨越學(xué)科邊界并將科學(xué)探究與更廣泛的社會(huì)團(tuán)體聯(lián)系起來的價(jià)值。

Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, published since 1952, is the quarterly journal of the Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences. NJAS aspires to be the main scientific platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on complex and persistent problems in agricultural production, food and nutrition security and natural resource management. The societal and technical challenges in these domains require research integrating scientific disciplines and finding novel combinations of methodologies and conceptual frameworks. Moreover, the composite nature of these problems and challenges fits transdisciplinary research approaches embedded in constructive interactions with policy and practice and crossing the boundaries between science and society. Engaging with societal debate and creating decision space is an important task of research about the diverse impacts of novel agri-food technologies or policies. The international nature of food and nutrition security (e.g. global value chains, standardisation, trade), environmental problems (e.g. climate change or competing claims on natural resources), and risks related to agriculture (e.g. the spread of plant and animal diseases) challenges researchers to focus not only on lower levels of aggregation, but certainly to use interdisciplinary research to unravel linkages between scales or to analyse dynamics at higher levels of aggregation.NJAS recognises that the widely acknowledged need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, also increasingly expressed by policy makers and practitioners, needs a platform for creative researchers and out-of-the-box thinking in the domains of agriculture, food and environment. The journal aims to offer space for grounded, critical, and open discussions that advance the development and application of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research methodologies in the agricultural and life sciences. Moreover, NJAS aims to open discussions on the role of research and knowledge in the prototyping, designing, testing and analysing of different intervention and management strategies needed to make agriculture, food and nutrition security sustainable in an agronomic, environmental, political, social and economic sense.NJAS especially encourages teams of (young) scientists to develop problem-oriented special issues, which demonstrate the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries and linking scientific inquiry to groups in the wider society.