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Special Issue on Innovation, Agricultural Productivity, and Sustainability in the Northeast Bioeconomy
02 Jun 2025 to 31 Aug 2025

The Agricultural Resource and Economics Review is delighted to announce it will be publishing a special issue arising from the 2025 NAREA - ICABR workshop on Innovation, Productivity & Sustainability of the Northeast Bioeconomy.

Scope

The Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation in the U.S. seeks to promote “a whole-of-governmentapproach to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing towards innovative solutions in health, climate change, energy, food security, agriculture, supply chain resilience, and national and economic security.” This includes investment in R&D, development of data systems and metrics, renewed efforts to boost agricultural and forest production and processing, initiatives to build the labor force needed for bioeconomy growth, and strategies to build markets while also monitoring and mitigating potential risks.

This special issue, which derives from a workshop taking place in Vermont on June 10-11, 2025, will bring together prominent bioeconomy scholars, members of industry, and students to consider the current status and future trajectory of the bioeconomy in the U.S. Northeast.

Key dates
  • NAREA Workshop: 10-11 June 2025, Burlington, Vermont.
  • Full paper submission to ARER: 31 August 2025
How to Submit

Authors should submit via the ARER ScholarOne site. Please remember to submit: 

  1. Title Page: To help us maintain a double anonymised review process, authors should submit a separate page containing the article title and the name, department, institution, city and country of each author. Please also include the following in the title, which will be published at the end of the article if accepted:
    • Competing Interest Statement: situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work (see full definition here), or a statement of 'none'.
    • Data Availability Statement; explaining how data and other resources were created, from where they are available, along with information about any restrictions on the accessibility of data and other resources. (See Research Transparency policy and example statements here).
    • Funding Statement: the sources of any specific funding for the article, including grant numbers, or a statement of 'none'.
  2. Article File (see specific preparation instructions here). This can be in PDF, LaTeX or Word on initial submission, but you may be asked for source files later in the process

Authors should select the special issue title when prompted in the submission form.

Peer review

Articles will be processed through the standard ARER peer review process, which involves obtain two reviews. Average turnaround times are 90 days from submission to decision. Articles will be published as soon as possible after acceptance and will eventually be compiled in a special issue in Volume 56 (2026) of ARER. 

About ARER

The Agricultural and Resource Economics Review is an open-access journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Northeastern Agricultural Resource and Economics Association (NAREA).

The journal is indexed in Journal Citation Reports (2023 Impact Factor: 1.7; Agricultural Economics & Policy category), Scopus (2023 Cite Score: 2.8) and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Open Access

Any ARER author can publish on an open access if accepted in the journal, irrespective of their funding situation or institutional affiliation. Many articles have publishing costs covered through the Transformative Agreements that Cambridge University Press has set up with universities worldwide. Authors not affiliated with these agreements can still publish open access. Authors who have a grant that specifically budgets for open access publication are expected to pay an article processing charge(APC). However, if an author has no funding to pay an APC and no institutional agreement, the charge will be waived. Please feel free to submit to this special issue irrespective of where you are based and whether or not you have research funding.

Guest Editors

With thanks to workshop organisers and Guest Editors:

  • Jeffrey O'Hara (Deputy Director, Office of Energy Policy and New Uses at USDA)
  • Travis Reynolds (Associate Professor of Community Development and Applied Economics)