Table 2  A description of ANH researchers’ awareness, attitude, and practices

Leadership

• State the need for building ethical competence and moral reasoning.

• Seen to be a lack of training initiatives supporting the needs of ANH researchers

• Promoting the importance of ethics education in ANH research and the ethical competence of ANH researchers

• Participate in an ethics discussion

• Enrolling in ethics education.

• Developing specialised ANH ethics education

Ethical Consideration

• Researchers acknowledged diverse ethical considerations for ANH research.

• Awareness of ethical principles and values that govern the conduct of research

• Using general research frameworks from medical research can be challenging.

• Highlighting that the current practice of operationalising clinical medical ethics in ANH research can raise wider ethics issues.

• Operationalisation of general ethical principles in ANH research.

• Identifying conflicts when medical research values are operationalised for ANH research.

Governance

• Lack of specialised guidelines and research frameworks

• Currently utilising generic research guidance documents

• Recommending research frameworks relevant to the ANH field

Systems

• Identification of the system gap

• Raised concerns about the dominance of medical-oriented systems

• No RECs in Agriculture, Nutrition and Health

• Need for discipline relevant/specific RECs

• Developing ANH research review processes

• Establishing new AHN RECs or expanding the capacity of medical research ethics review committees