1. Public Health and Community Well-Being

This area covers applied studies and community service related to population and community health, including:

• Health promotion and disease prevention
• Community nutrition and nutritional interventions
• Maternal, child, adolescent, adult, and older-person health
• Epidemiology and community-based health assessment
• Environmental and occupational health
• Health behavior and risk-factor prevention
• Community-based health services and programs
• Health literacy and health communication
• Digital and appropriate technologies for public health 
• Evaluation of health policies, programs, services, and interventions.

Clinical or biomedical studies are considered only when they demonstrate clear relevance and implications for public or community health.

2. Sustainable Agri-Food and Livelihood Systems

This area addresses sustainable production, utilization, processing, and development of food and natural-resource-based livelihoods, including:

• Agriculture and crop-based production
• Fisheries and aquaculture
• Livestock and animal-based production
• Food production, processing, and post-harvest systems
• Food security, food safety, and community nutrition linkages
• Agribusiness and agricultural value chains
• Local food-resource development
• Appropriate technology for agriculture, fisheries, livestock, and food processing
• Sustainable resource utilization
• Producer and community livelihood development
• Interventions that strengthen the resilience and sustainability of agri-food systems.

Studies focused solely on basic biological or laboratory processes without clear applied, livelihood, food-system, or community relevance are outside the journal’s primary scope.

3. Local Economic Development, MSMEs, and Supply Chain and Logistics Management

This area focuses on applied economic and management issues that strengthen local enterprises, market systems, and the movement of goods, services, and resources, including:

• Local economic development
• MSME development and empowerment
• Entrepreneurship and community-based enterprises
• Business development and digitalization of MSMEs
• Marketing and market access for local products
• Operations management
• Supply chain management
• Logistics and distribution management
• Procurement and inventory management
• Value-chain development
• Supply chain resilience and sustainability
• Logistics technology and digital transformation 
• Managerial, business, and policy interventions that improve the resilience and competitiveness of local economic systems.

General studies in finance, human resource management, organizational behavior, marketing, or business administration are considered only when they are substantively connected to MSMEs, local economic development, supply chains, logistics, agri-food systems, or community well-being.

4. Cross-Disciplinary and Applied Contributions

GOTAVA welcomes multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches when they are clearly anchored in at least one of the journal’s three principal domains.

Studies conducted in local settings are welcome, however, manuscripts should move beyond description of a specific location or activity. Authors are expected to articulate the broader scientific, practical, managerial, policy, or societal relevance of their findings and, where appropriate, their potential for adaptation, transferability, or replication in other contexts.

Community Service Articles must demonstrate more than the implementation of an activity. Manuscripts should identify a clear community or partner need, describe an evidence-informed intervention, apply an appropriate evaluation approach, report measurable outcomes, and discuss practical implications and sustainability.

5. Out of Scope

GOTAVA does not prioritize manuscripts that:

• Fall outside the three principal thematic domains
• Report purely theoretical work without clear applied or societal relevance
• Present clinical or biomedical research without public-health implications
• Focus on basic agricultural, fisheries, or livestock science without clear relevance to food systems, livelihoods, or communities
• Address general education, law, governance, politics, engineering, or information technology without substantive connection to the journal’s focus
• Examine general business or management topics without relevance to local economies, MSMEs, supply chains, or logistics
• Merely document training, socialization, counseling, or community activities without systematic evaluation and measurable outcomes 
• Lack a clear scientific, practical, managerial, policy, or community contribution.