Aim
The Asian Journal of Applied Research for Community Development and Empowerment (AJARCDE) is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to bridging the gap between theoretical research and practical applications. Our mission is to provide a global platform for high-quality scholarship that advances evidence-based solutions for sustainable agriculture, natural resource management, and development engineering.
While AJARCDE maintains a strong focus on tropical and emerging regions, it welcomes contributions that offer scalable innovations and transformative insights applicable to global sustainability challenges. The journal prioritizes interdisciplinary studies that integrate technological innovation with socio-economic impact and policy relevance, fostering resilient, circular, and inclusive development.
Scope
AJARCDE invites original research articles, comprehensive systematic reviews, and policy-oriented studies. We are particularly interested in "solution-driven" manuscripts that address, but are not limited to, the following thematic areas:
- Sustainable Agriculture and Resilient Food Systems
- Innovations: Climate-smart agriculture, agroecology, and precision farming.
- Value Chain: Post-harvest technologies, food safety, and nutritional security.
- Systems: Sustainable intensification and the transition to resilient food production models.
- Natural Resource Management and Environmental Engineering
- Resources: Integrated land, forest, and water resource management.
- Mitigation: Pollution control, environmental monitoring, and ecosystem services valuation.
- Efficiency: Strategies for biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation.
- Circular Economy and Bio-based Value Chains
- Valorization: Waste-to-resource technologies and biomass utilization.
- Models: Industrial symbiosis, life cycle assessment (LCA), and low-carbon production.
- Sustainability: Development of bio-based materials and circular business models.
- Development Engineering and Applied Digital Technology
- Smart Systems: Digital agriculture, IoT-based monitoring, and AI applications in rural development.
- Infrastructure: Appropriate technologies for community empowerment and process innovation.
- Engineering: Technical solutions tailored for energy efficiency and sustainable infrastructure.
- Socio-economic Dynamics and Evidence-based Policy
- Governance: Institutional frameworks, community-based management, and innovation adoption.
- Impact: Inclusive development strategies, poverty alleviation, and social entrepreneurship.
- Policy: Analytical studies that inform policymaking for regional and global sustainable development goals (SDGs).