Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food

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Volume 12, issue 6, 2020

In this issue - December 2020 pp. 1199-1200

Serge Savary

Driving factors of food safety standards in India: learning from street-food vendors’ behaviour and attitude pp. 1201-1217

A Reddy, Sandra Ricart and Timothy Cadman

The global challenge of clean cooking systems pp. 1219-1240

Caleb Wright, Roger Sathre and Shashi Buluswar

Empirical studies of factors associated with child malnutrition: highlighting the evidence about climate and conflict shocks pp. 1241-1252

Molly E. Brown, David Backer, Trey Billing, Peter White, Kathryn Grace, Shannon Doocy and Paul Huth

Organic aquaculture productivity, environmental sustainability, and food security: insights from organic agriculture pp. 1253-1267

Nesar Ahmed, Shirley Thompson and Giovanni M. Turchini

Determining and managing maize yield gaps in Rwanda pp. 1269-1282

Charles Bucagu, Alain Ndoli, Athanase R. Cyamweshi, Leon N. Nabahungu, Athanase Mukuralinda and Philip Smethurst

Spatially analyzing food consumption inequalities using GIS with disaggregated data from Punjab, Pakistan pp. 1283-1298

Sana Khushi, Sajid Rashid Ahmad, Ather Ashraf and Muhammad Imran

The impact of hermetic storage bag supply and training on food security in Tanzania pp. 1299-1316

Martin Julius Chegere, Razack Lokina and Agnes G. Mwakaje

Post-production decisions in agriculture: understanding postharvest storage and marketing decisions of smallholder farmers pp. 1317-1329

Preeti Priya and Suddhachit Mitra

From garden to store: local perspectives of changing food and nutrition security in a Pacific Island country pp. 1331-1348

Amy Savage, Hilary Bambrick and Danielle Gallegos

The effect of large-scale agricultural investments on household food security in Madagascar pp. 1349-1365

Wegayehu Fitawek, Sheryl Hendriks, Aurélien Reys and Filippo Fossi

Can household dietary diversity inform about nutrient adequacy? Lessons from a food systems analysis in Ethiopia pp. 1367-1383

Daniel Mekonnen, Elise F. Talsma, Laura Trijsburg, Vincent Linderhof, Thom Achterbosch, Aafke Nijhuis, Ruerd Ruben and Inge D. Brouwer

Fish as a source of (micro)nutrients to combat hidden hunger in Zambia pp. 1385-1406

Nils Nölle, Sven Genschick, Klaus Schwadorf, Holger Hrenn, Sonja Brandner and Hans Konrad Biesalski

Does subsidizing fertilizer contribute to the diet quality of farm women? Evidence from rural Mali pp. 1407-1424

Melinda Smale, Veronique Thériault and Nicole M. Mason

Pollination ecosystem services: A comprehensive review of economic values, research funding and policy actions pp. 1425-1442

Rafaella Guimarães Porto, Rita Fernandes Almeida, Oswaldo Cruz-Neto, Marcelo Tabarelli, Blandina Felipe Viana, Carlos A. Peres and Ariadna Valentina Lopes

Impacts of farmer field schools in the human, social, natural and financial domain: a qualitative review pp. 1443-1459

Henk Berg, Suzanne Phillips, Marcel Dicke and Marjon Fredrix

The Högdalen urban farm: a real case assessment of sustainability attributes pp. 1461-1475

Rebecka Milestad, Annika Carlsson-Kanyama and Christina Schaffer

Volume 12, issue 5, 2020

In this issue - October 2020 pp. 903-904

Serge Savary

Valuing genebanks pp. 905-918

Melinda Smale and Nelissa Jamora

Conserving genetic resources for agriculture: economic implications of emerging science pp. 919-927

Douglas Gollin

The contribution of the International Rice Genebank to varietal improvement and crop productivity in Eastern India pp. 929-943

Donald Villanueva, Melinda Smale, Nelissa Jamora, Grace Lee Capilit and Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton

Dynamic conservation of genetic resources: Rematriation of the maize landrace Jala pp. 945-958

Vanessa Ocampo-Giraldo, Carolina Camacho-Villa, Denise E. Costich, Victor A. Vidal Martínez, Melinda Smale and Nelissa Jamora

Andean potato diversity conserved in the International Potato Center genebank helps develop agriculture in Uganda: the example of the variety ‘Victoria’ pp. 959-973

Vivian Bernal-Galeano, George Norton, David Ellis, Noelle L. Anglin, Guy Hareau, Melinda Smale, Nelissa Jamora, Jeffrey Alwang and Willy Pradel

The contribution of the CIAT genebank to the development of iron-biofortified bean varieties and well-being of farm households in Rwanda pp. 975-991

Stefania Sellitti, Kate Vaiknoras, Melinda Smale, Nelissa Jamora, Robert Andrade, Peter Wenzl and Ricardo Labarta

Use and benefits of tree germplasm from the World Agroforestry genebank for smallholder farmers in Kenya pp. 993-1003

Kavengi Kitonga, Nelissa Jamora, Melinda Smale and Alice Muchugi

The tale of taro leaf blight: a global effort to safeguard the genetic diversity of taro in the Pacific pp. 1005-1016

Sefra Alexandra, Nelissa Jamora, Melinda Smale and Michel E. Ghanem

Transferring diversity of goat grass to farmers’ fields through the development of synthetic hexaploid wheat pp. 1017-1033

Hafid Aberkane, Thomas Payne, Masahiro Kishi, Melinda Smale, Ahmed Amri and Nelissa Jamora

‘Warehouse’ or research centre? Analyzing public preferences for conservation, pre-breeding and characterization activities at the Czech genebank pp. 1035-1046

Nicholas Tyack and Milan Ščasný

Correction to: Valuing genebanks pp. 1047-1047

Melinda Smale and Nelissa Jamora

A consumption-oriented approach to measuring regional food self-sufficiency pp. 1049-1063

Dirk Godenau, José Juan Cáceres-Hernández, Gloria Martin-Rodriguez and Jose Ignacio Gonzalez-Gomez

Gender-Specific Livelihood Strategies for Coping with Climate Change-Induced Food Insecurity in Southeast Nigeria pp. 1065-1084

Ifeoma Q. Anugwa, Agwu E. Agwu, Murari Suvedi and Suresh Babu

Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food Systems in low and Middle Income Countries pp. 1085-1105

Mequanint Melesse, Marrit Berg, Christophe Béné, Alan Brauw and Inge D. Brouwer

Farm production diversity and its association with dietary diversity in Kenya pp. 1107-1120

Davis Muthini, Jonathan Nzuma and Rose Nyikal

Enabling trade across borders and food security in Africa pp. 1121-1140

Isaac Bonuedi, Kofi Kamasa and Eric Opoku

Nutrition transition in Vietnam: changing food supply, food prices, household expenditure, diet and nutrition outcomes pp. 1141-1155

Jody Harris, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Lan Mai Tran and Phuong Nam Huynh

Reducing poverty by ‘ignoring the experts’? Evidence on input subsidies in Zambia pp. 1157-1172

Nicole M. Mason, Ayala Wineman and Solomon T. Tembo

Nutritional risk, food insecurity and quality of life in people living with HIV/AIDS in Paraíba, Brazil pp. 1173-1183

Nadjeanny Ingrid Galdino Gomes, Rodrigo Pinheiro de Toledo Vianna, Amira Rose Costa Medeiros and Rafaela Lira Formiga Cavalcanti Lima

Farmers’ preferences for attributes of rice varieties in Sierra Leone pp. 1185-1197

Shaosheng Jin, Bashiru Mansaray, Xin Jin and Haoyang Li

Volume 12, issue 4, 2020

In this issue - August 2020 pp. 691-693

Serge Savary

Mapping disruption and resilience mechanisms in food systems pp. 695-717

Serge Savary, Sonia Akter, Conny Almekinders, Jody Harris, Lise Korsten, Reimund Rötter, Stephen Waddington and Derrill Watson

The impact of COVID-19 related ‘stay-at-home’ restrictions on food prices in Europe: findings from a preliminary analysis pp. 719-725

Sonia Akter

Imperfect food markets in times of crisis: economic consequences of supply chain disruptions and fragmentation for local market power and urban vulnerability pp. 727-734

Rico Ihle, Ofir Rubin, Ziv Bar-Nahum and Roel Jongeneel

Fire lines as fault lines: increased trade barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic further shatter the global food system pp. 735-738

Kevin Z. Chen and Rui Mao

Consumer food stockpiling behavior and willingness to pay for food reserves in COVID-19 pp. 739-747

Erpeng Wang, Ning An, Zhifeng Gao, Emmanuel Kiprop and Xianhui Geng

Pandemics and food systems - towards a proactive food safety approach to disease prevention & management pp. 749-756

Anaka Aiyar and Prabhu Pingali

Wither the self-sufficiency illusion? Food security in Arab Gulf States and the impact of COVID-19 pp. 757-760

Eckart Woertz

Key indicators for monitoring food system disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from Bangladesh towards effective response pp. 761-768

T. S. Amjath-Babu, Timothy J. Krupnik, Shakuntala H. Thilsted and Andrew J. McDonald

Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security pp. 769-772

Stephen Devereux, Christophe Béné and John Hoddinott

Rapid tool based on a food environment typology framework for evaluating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on food system resilience pp. 773-778

Selena Ahmed, Shauna M. Downs, Chunyan Yang, Long Chunlin, Noah Broek and Suparna Ghosh-Jerath

COVID-19 in the Greater Mekong Subregion: how resilient are rural households? pp. 779-782

Hermann Waibel, Ulrike Grote, Shi Min, Trung Thanh Nguyen and Suwanna Praneetvatakul

COVID-19 and Pacific food system resilience: opportunities to build a robust response pp. 783-791

Penny Farrell, Anne Marie Thow, Jillian Tutuo Wate, Nichol Nonga, Penina Vatucawaqa, Tom Brewer, Michael K. Sharp, Anna Farmery, Helen Trevena, Erica Reeve, Hampus Eriksson, Itziar Gonzalez, Georgina Mulcahy, Jacob G. Eurich and Neil L. Andrew

Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India pp. 793-796

Muzna Alvi and Manavi Gupta

“Informal” food traders and food security: experiences from the Covid-19 response in South Africa pp. 797-800

Marc C. A. Wegerif

Assuring food security in Singapore, a small island state facing COVID-19 pp. 801-804

Paul Teng

Resilience of local food systems and links to food security – A review of some important concepts in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks pp. 805-822

Christophe Béné

Resilient agri-food systems for nutrition amidst COVID-19: evidence and lessons from food-based approaches to overcome micronutrient deficiency and rebuild livelihoods after crises pp. 823-830

Simon Heck, Hugo Campos, Ian Barker, Julius J. Okello, Arun Baral, Erick Boy, Lynn Brown and Ekin Birol

Addressing the triple burden of malnutrition in the time of COVID-19 and climate change in Small Island Developing States: what role for improved local food production? pp. 831-835

Gordon M. Hickey and Nigel Unwin

How Indian agriculture should change after COVID-19 pp. 837-840

Anjani Kumar, Arabinda K. Padhee and Shalander Kumar

Food system disruption: initial livelihood and dietary effects of COVID-19 on vegetable producers in India pp. 841-851

Jody Harris, Lutz Depenbusch, Arshad Ahmad Pal, Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair and Srinivasan Ramasamy

Food systems for resilient futures pp. 853-857

Helena Kahiluoto

Disrupted food systems in the WHO European region – a threat or opportunity for healthy and sustainable food and nutrition? pp. 859-864

Holly L. Rippin, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Afton Halloran, Stephen Whiting, Julianne Williams, Kathrin Hetz, Adriana Pinedo and João J. Breda

Feeding the food insecure in Britain: learning from the 2020 COVID-19 crisis pp. 865-870

Margo Barker and Jean Russell

Home gardening and urban agriculture for advancing food and nutritional security in response to the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 871-876

Rattan Lal

COVID-19 and the food system: setback or opportunity for gender equality? pp. 877-880

Catherine Ragasa and Isabel Lambrecht

The COVID19 pandemic crisis and the relevance of a farm-system-for-nutrition approach pp. 881-884

R. V. Bhavani and R. Gopinath

Seed security response during COVID-19: building on evidence and orienting to the future pp. 885-889

Louise Sperling

Informal food chains and agrobiodiversity need strengthening—not weakening—to address food security amidst the COVID-19 crisis in South America pp. 891-894

Karl S. Zimmerer and Stef Haan

Epidemics and food systems: what gets framed, gets done pp. 895-898

Stuart Gillespie

10 recommendations for African governments to ensure food security for poor and vulnerable populations during COVID-19 pp. 899-902

Laté Lawson-Lartego and Marc J. Cohen

Volume 12, issue 3, 2020

In this issue - June 2020 pp. 491-492

Serge Savary

Plant Pathogens which Threaten Food Security: Viruses of Chickpea and Other Cool Season Legumes in West Asia and North Africa pp. 495-502

Khaled M. Makkouk

Effects of violent political conflict on the supply, demand and fragmentation of fresh food markets pp. 503-515

Ziv Bar-Nahum, Israel Finkelshtain, Rico Ihle and Ofir Rubin

Commercial agriculture for food security? The case of oil palm development in northern Guatemala pp. 517-535

Anastasia Hervas and S. Ryan Isakson

Linking field survey with crop modeling to forecast maize yield in smallholder farmers’ fields in Tanzania pp. 537-548

Lin Liu and Bruno Basso

Rice policy in a transitional economy: balancing the social and political objectives pp. 549-566

Hoa Nguyen, Huong Do, Adrian Kay and Tom Kompas

Rainfall variability and farm households’ food insecurity in Burkina Faso: nonfarm activities as a coping strategy pp. 567-578

Mahamadou Tankari

Food insecurity and social determinants of health among immigrants and natives in Portugal pp. 579-589

Violeta Alarcão, Sofia Guiomar, Andreia Oliveira, Milton Severo, Daniela Correia, Duarte Torres and Carla Lopes

Food security governance promoted by national government at the local level: a case study in Brazil pp. 591-606

Poliana Araújo Palmeira, Ruben Araujo de Mattos and Rosana Salles-Costa

Subsistence farmer knowledge of strategies alleviating food insecurity in the context of climate change in the lower river region of the Gambia pp. 607-624

Ebrima Sonko, Wojciech J. Florkowski, Sampson Agodzo and Philip Antwi-Agyei

The contribution of agriculture to household dietary diversity: evidence from smallholders in East Hararghe, Ethiopia pp. 625-636

Chanyalew Seyoum Aweke, Edward Lahiff and Jemal Yousuf Hassen

Changes in food access by mestizo communities associated with deforestation and agrobiodiversity loss in Ucayali, Peruvian Amazon pp. 637-658

Genowefa Blundo-Canto, Gisella S. Cruz-Garcia, Elise F. Talsma, Wendy Francesconi, Ricardo Labarta, Jose Sanchez-Choy, Lisset Perez-Marulanda, Paula Paz-Garcia and Marcela Quintero

Integrated assessment of climate change impacts on crop productivity and income of commercial maize farms in northeast South Africa pp. 659-678

Davide Cammarano, Roberto O. Valdivia, Yacob G. Beletse, Wiltrud Durand, Olivier Crespo, Weldemichael A. Tesfuhuney, Matthew R. Jones, Sue Walker, Thembeka N. Mpuisang, Charles Nhemachena, Alex C. Ruane, Carolyn Mutter, Cynthia Rosenzweig and John Antle

Navigating structural barriers to the implementation of agriculture-nutrition programs in Nepal pp. 679-690

Elena T. Broaddus-Shea, Bibhu Thapaliya Shrestha, Pooja Pandey Rana, Peter J. Winch and Carol R. Underwood

Volume 12, issue 2, 2020

In This Issue - April 2020 pp. 235-236

Serge Savary

Pathogens which threaten food security: Puccinia striiformis, the wheat stripe rust pathogen pp. 239-251

Xianming Chen

Plant factories in the water-food-energy Nexus era: a systematic bibliographical review pp. 253-268

Dafni Despoina Avgoustaki and George Xydis

Maize farmer preferences for intercropping systems to reduce Striga in Malawi pp. 269-283

Timothy R. Silberg, Robert B. Richardson and Maria Claudia Lopez

Measuring the nutritional cost of insect infestation of stored maize and cowpea pp. 285-308

Tanya E. Stathers, Sarah E. J. Arnold, Corinne J. Rumney and Clare Hopson

Linking calving intervals to milk production and household nutrition in Kenya pp. 309-325

Nathan DeLay, S.M. Thumbi, Julia Vanderford, Elkanah Otiang, Linus Ochieng, M. Kariuki Njenga, Guy H. Palmer and Thomas Marsh

Assessing food and nutrition security in Nepal: evidence from diet diversity and food expenditure patterns pp. 327-354

Anjani Kumar, Ganesh Thapa, Ashok Mishra and P. K. Joshi

Towards concerted government efforts? Assessing nutrition policy integration in Uganda pp. 355-368

Brenda Shenute Namugumya, Jeroen J.L. Candel, Elise F. Talsma and Catrien J.A.M. Termeer

The association between crop and income diversity and farmer intra-household dietary diversity in India pp. 369-390

Sukhwinder Singh, Andrew D. Jones, Ruth S. DeFries and Meha Jain

Prevalence and correlates of household food insecurity in Delhi and Chennai, India pp. 391-404

Garima Rautela, Mohammed K. Ali, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, K.M. Venkat Narayan, Nikhil Tandon, Viswanathan Mohan and Lindsay M. Jaacks

Correction to: Prevalence and correlates of household food insecurity in Delhi and Chennai, India pp. 405-405

Garima Rautela, Mohammed K. Ali, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, K.M. Venkat Narayan, Nikhil Tandon, Viswanathan Mohan and Lindsay M. Jaacks

Household food insecurity is associated with depressive symptoms: results from a Mexican population-based survey pp. 407-416

Spyros Kolovos, Gerardo A Zavala, Anne Sophie Leijen, Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez and Maurits Tulder

Comparing measures of urban food security in Accra, Ghana pp. 417-431

Cascade Tuholske, Kwaw Andam, Jordan Blekking, Tom Evans and Kelly Caylor

To sell or consume? Gendered household decision-making on crop production, consumption, and sale in Malawi pp. 433-447

Noora-Lisa Aberman and Terry Roopnaraine

The impact of women’s access to agricultural extension on cropping practices in Timor-Leste pp. 449-463

Sonia Akter, William Erskine, Luc Spyckerelle, Lucia Viana Branco and Julie Imron

Impact of a food voucher program in alleviating household food insecurity in two cities in Senegal during a food price crisis pp. 465-478

M. Savy, S. Fortin, Y. Kameli, S. Renault, C. Couderc, A. Gamli, K. Amouzou, M. L. Perenze and Y. Martin-Prevel

Multigrain noodles: nutritional fitness and cost effectiveness for Indian Mid-Day Meal pp. 479-488

Savita Rani, Rakhi Singh, Dinkar B. Kamble, Ashutosh Upadhyay, Sarika Yadav and Barjinder Pal Kaur

Correction to: Unravelling the variability and causes of smallholder maize yield gaps in Ethiopia pp. 489-490

Banchayehu Tessema Assefa, Jordan Chamberlin, Pytrik Reidsma, João Vasco Silva and Martin K. Ittersum

Volume 12, issue 1, 2020

Looking back on 2019: a selection of Food Security articles pp. 1-3

Serge Savary

In this issue - February 2020 pp. 5-6

Serge Savary

Smallholder food storage dynamics and resilience pp. 7-20

Kurt B. Waldman, Stacey Giroux, Jordan P. Blekking, Kathy Baylis and Tom P. Evans

Impacts of smallholder agricultural adaptation on food security: evidence from Africa, Asia, and Central America pp. 21-35

Krisha Lim, Bruno Wichmann, Martin Luckert and Peter Läderach

Beyond the risks to food availability – linking climatic hazard vulnerability with the food access of delta-dwelling households pp. 37-58

Md Mofakkarul Islam and Md Abdullah Mamun

A model-based exploration of farm-household livelihood and nutrition indicators to guide nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions pp. 59-81

Natalia Estrada-Carmona, Jessica E. Raneri, Stephanie Alvarez, Carl Timler, Shantonu Abe Chatterjee, Lenora Ditzler, Gina Kennedy, Roseline Remans, Inge Brouwer, Karin Borgonjen- van Berg, Elise F. Talsma and Jeroen C. J. Groot

Unravelling the variability and causes of smallholder maize yield gaps in Ethiopia pp. 83-103

Banchayehu Tessema Assefa, Jordan Chamberlin, Pytrik Reidsma, João Vasco Silva and Martin K. Ittersum

Food security impacts of industrial crop production in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the impact mechanisms pp. 105-135

Marcin Pawel Jarzebski, Abubakari Ahmed, Yaw Agyeman Boafo, Boubacar Siddighi Balde, Linda Chinangwa, Osamu Saito, Graham Maltitz and Alexandros Gasparatos

How the choice of food security indicators affects the assessment of resilience—an example from northern Ethiopia pp. 137-150

Bapu Vaitla, Jennifer Denno Cissé, Joanna Upton, Girmay Tesfay, Nigussie Abadi and Daniel Maxwell

Weather index insurance, agricultural input use, and crop productivity in Kenya pp. 151-167

Kenneth W. Sibiko and Matin Qaim

Overcoming the dependent variable problem in studying food policy pp. 169-178

Jeroen Candel and Carsten Daugbjerg

Intertemporal evaluation of household food security and its determinants: evidence from Rwanda pp. 179-189

Olufemi Daniel Bolarinwa, Kolawole Ogundari and Adebayo B. Aromolaran

Land scarcity, resettlement and food security: Assessing the effect of voluntary resettlement on diet quality in Malawi pp. 191-205

Kelly Sharp, Hisham Zerriffi and Philippe Billon

International migration, remittance and food security during food crises: the case study of Nigeria pp. 207-220

Chinedu Obi, Fabio Bartolini and Marijke D’Haese

The contribution of ‘chitoumou’, the edible caterpillar Cirina butyrospermi, to the food security of smallholder farmers in southwestern Burkina Faso pp. 221-234

Charlotte L. R. Payne, Athanase Badolo, Sioned Cox, Bakary Sagnon, Darja Dobermann, Charlotte Milbank, Pete Scarborough, Antoine Sanon, Fernand Bationo and Andrew Balmford