AE is a media for dissemination information of thinking and research from lecturers, researchers, students, and practitioners who are interest to produce the scientific work in the agricultural and natural resource policies, agribusiness and agricultural extension & communication sciences. The focus and scopes of the articles in this journal are : (1) The macro approach of agricultural socio economic as a system which comprehensive and integrated from subsystems up-stream, subsystems on-farm, subsystems down-stream, subsystems support and the impact of their interrelationships with government policy, international economics, agricultural marketing, environmental resources, agricultural extension and communication, agricultural sociology, farmer institutions, and community empowerment; (2) The micro approach includes the study in the development of agribusiness (finance, farm management, functional and technical aspects) and agricultural local institutional.