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

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Volume 9, issue 6, 2017

In this issue pp. 1137-1138

R. Strange

R.K.S. Wood FRS, 1919–2017 pp. 1139-1141

Simon Archer

Introduction to a Special Issue: Regional Food and Nutritional Security in Tanzania – Methods, Tools and Applications pp. 1143-1145

Stefan Sieber, Frieder Graef, T.S. Amjath-Babu, Khamaldin D. Mutabazi, Siza D. Tumbo, Anja Faße, Sergio Gomez Y Paloma, Constance Rybak, Marcos Lana, Tim Hycenth Ndah, Götz Uckert, Johannes Schuler and Ulrike Grote

Trans-SEC’s food security research in Tanzania: principles, research models and assumptions pp. 1147-1155

Stefan Sieber, Frieder Graef, T.S. Amjath-Babu, Khamaldin D. Mutabazi, Siza D. Tumbo, Anja Faße, Sergio Gomez Y Paloma, Constance Rybak, Marcos Lana, Tim Hycenth Ndah, Götz Uckert, Johannes Schuler and Ulrike Grote

Factors influencing stunting among children in rural Tanzania: an agro-climatic zone perspective pp. 1157-1171

Hadijah A. Mbwana, Joyce Kinabo, Christine Lambert and Hans K. Biesalski

Influence of gender on roles, choices of crop types and value chain upgrading strategies in semi-arid and sub-humid Tanzania pp. 1173-1187

T. S. Mnimbo, J. Lyimo-Macha, J. K. Urassa, H. F. Mahoo, S. D. Tumbo and F. Graef

Conflict management programs in trans-disciplinary research projects: the case of a food security project in Tanzania pp. 1189-1201

Katharina Löhr, Christian Hochmuth, Frieder Graef, Jane Wambura and Stefan Sieber

Implications of climate-smart strategy adoption by farm households for food security in Tanzania pp. 1203-1218

Kathleen Brüssow, Anja Faße and Ulrike Grote

The integration of smallholders in agricultural value chain activities and food security: evidence from rural Tanzania pp. 1219-1235

Luitfred Kissoly, Anja Faße and Ulrike Grote

Simulated willingness of farmers to adopt fertilizer micro-dosing and rainwater harvesting technologies in semi-arid and sub-humid farming systems in Tanzania pp. 1237-1253

Lutengano Mwinuka, Khamaldin Daud Mutabazi, Frieder Graef, Stefan Sieber, Jeremia Makindara, Anthony Kimaro and Götz Uckert

Expert-based ex-ante assessments of potential social, ecological, and economic impacts of upgrading strategies for improving food security in rural Tanzania using the ScalA-FS approach pp. 1255-1270

Frieder Graef, Götz Uckert, Jana Schindler, Hannes Jochen König, Hadijah A. Mbwana, Anja Faße, Lutengano Mwinuka, Henry Mahoo, Laurent N. Kaburire, Paul Saidia, Yusto Mugisha Yustas, Valerian Silayo, Bashir Makoko, Luitfred Kissoly, Christine Lambert, Anthony Kimaro, Stefan Sieber, Harry Hoffmann, Frederick C. Kahimba and Khamaldin D. Mutabazi

Fusion of indigenous knowledge and gamma spectrometry for soil mapping to support knowledge-based extension in Tanzania pp. 1271-1284

Nadja Reinhardt and Ludger Herrmann

Developing community-based food security criteria in rural Tanzania pp. 1285-1298

Jana Schindler, Frieder Graef, Hannes Jochen König and Devotha Mchau

Social organization, constraints and opportunities for kitchen garden implementation: ScalA and ScalA-FS assessment tools in Morogoro and Dodoma, Tanzania pp. 1299-1308

Michelle Bonatti, Larissa H. I. R. Homem, Frieder Graef, Hadijah Ally Mbwana, Constance Rybak, Marcos Lana and Stefan Sieber

Combining participatory, qualitative and quantitative methods for impact assessment of food value chains into an integrated framework pp. 1309-1321

Hannes J. König, Frieder Graef, Jana Schindler, Anja Faße, Khamaldin Daud Mutabazi, Christine Lambert, Pamela Ngwenya, Götz Uckert, Henry Mahoo, Fred F. Hattermann and Stefan Sieber

We need radical change in how we produce and consume food pp. 1323-1327

Peter Horton

Raising chickens for increased egg consumption in a rural highland Bolivian population pp. 1329-1341

Peter R. Berti and Heber Araujo Cossio

Yield effects of rust-resistant wheat varieties in Ethiopia pp. 1343-1357

Zewdu Abro, Moti Jaleta and Matin Qaim

Impact assessment of push-pull pest management on incomes, productivity and poverty among smallholder households in Eastern Uganda pp. 1359-1372

Ruth T. Chepchirchir, Ibrahim Macharia, Alice W. Murage, Charles A. O. Midega and Zeyaur R. Khan

Horticultural postharvest loss in municipal fruit and vegetable markets in Samoa pp. 1373-1383

Steven J. R. Underhill, Yuchan Zhou, Shukrullah Sherzad, Lila Singh-Peterson and Semua Militini Tagoai

Food availability and livelihood strategies among rural households across Uganda pp. 1385-1403

Jannike Wichern, Mark T. Wijk, Katrien Descheemaeker, Romain Frelat, Piet J. A. Asten and Ken E. Giller

Food crop marketing and agricultural productivity in a high price environment: evidence and implications for Mozambique pp. 1405-1418

Rui Benfica, Duncan Boughton, Rafael Uaiene and Bordalo Mouzinho

Food insecurity in the United States of America: an examination of race/ethnicity and nativity pp. 1419-1432

Ana McCormick Myers and Matthew A. Painter

Can better governance improve food security? An assessment of the public food distribution system in Odisha, India pp. 1433-1445

Anjani Kumar, Shinoj Parappurathu, Suresh C. Babu and P. K. Joshi

Women’s empowerment in Indian agriculture: does market orientation of farming systems matter? pp. 1447-1463

Soumya Gupta, Prabhu L. Pingali and Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Dieter Helm: Burn out: the endgame for fossil fuels pp. 1465-1466

Steve Yearley

Roger Leakey: Multifunctional Agriculture, achieving sustainable development in Africa pp. 1467-1468

Malcolm Blackie

Volume 9, issue 5, 2017

In this issue pp. 887-888

Richard Strange

Assessing the relationship between the spatial distribution of land consolidation projects and farmland resources in China, 2006–2012 pp. 889-905

Xiaobin Jin, Xiaomin Xiang, Xu Guan, Xiaowei Wu, Qing Bai and Yinkang Zhou

Crops that feed the world: Production and improvement of cassava for food, feed, and industrial uses pp. 907-927

Aditya Parmar, Barbara Sturm and Oliver Hensel

The impact of new Rice for Africa (NERICA) adoption on household food security and health in the Gambia pp. 929-944

Lamin Dibba, Manfred Zeller and Aliou Diagne

Post-harvest management and post-harvest losses of cereals in Ethiopia pp. 945-958

H. Hengsdijk and W. J. Boer

The neglected governance challenges of agricultural mechanisation in Africa – insights from Ghana pp. 959-979

Thomas Daum and Regina Birner

Establishing integrated agriculture-nutrition programmes to diversify household food and diets in rural India pp. 981-999

A. V. Vijaya Bhaskar, D. J. Nithya, S. Raju and R. V. Bhavani

Where food safety meets nutrition outcomes in livestock and fish value chains: a conceptual approach pp. 1001-1017

Barbara Häsler, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Kimberly Fornace, Maria Garza, Delia Grace and Jonathan Rushton

Using mixed methods to assess food security and coping strategies: a case study among smallholders in the Andean region pp. 1019-1040

Georgina Limon, Guillaume Fournié, Elisa G. Lewis, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Daniela Leyton-Michovich, Eloy A. Gonzales-Gustavson, Armando E. Gonzalez, Aurelio H. Cabezas, Julio Pinto, Jonathan Rushton and Javier Guitian

Food acquisition programs in the Brazilian semi-arid region: benefits to farmers and impacts of climate change pp. 1041-1051

Patricia S. Mesquita and Marcel Bursztyn

Grain legume cultivation and children’s dietary diversity in smallholder farming households in rural Ghana and Kenya pp. 1053-1071

Ilse de Jager, Abdul-Razak Abizari, Jacob C. Douma, Ken E. Giller and Inge D. Brouwer

A free lunch or a walk back home? The school food environment and dietary behaviours among children and adolescents in Ghana pp. 1073-1090

Meenakshi Fernandes, Gloria Folson, Elisabetta Aurino and Aulo Gelli

Gender inequality and food security: lessons from the gender-responsive work of the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pp. 1091-1103

Alicea Skye Garcia and Thomas Wanner

Cash crops reduce the welfare of farm households in Senegal pp. 1105-1115

Mahamadou Tankari

Complementary feeding practices: determinants of dietary diversity and meal frequency among children aged 6–23 months in Southern Benin pp. 1117-1130

Irene Medeme Mitchodigni, Waliou Amoussa Hounkpatin, Gervais Ntandou-Bouzitou, Hermane Avohou, Celine Termote, Gina Kennedy and D. Joseph Hounhouigan

Gopalakrishnan Subramanian, Sathya Arumugam & Vijayabharathi Rajendran (Eds.): plant growth promoting Actinobacteria: a new avenue for enhancing the productivity and soil fertility of grain legumes pp. 1131-1132

David S. Ingram

Scientific Editors, P. Pinstrup-Andersen, S.A. Shoba, I.I. Vasenev, V.M. Koshelev & P.P. Sorkin (Eds): Food Security in Eurasia: Case Studies pp. 1133-1136

Suresh Chandra Babu

Volume 9, issue 4, 2017

In this issue pp. 657-659

R. Strange

Spatio-temporal analysis of meteorological disasters affecting rice, using multi-indices, in Jiangsu province, Southeast China pp. 661-672

Jin Huang, Yadong Lei, Fangmin Zhang and Zhenghua Hu

Climate variability and the volatility of global maize and soybean prices pp. 673-683

Massimo Peri

A gender perspective on the impact of flood on the food security of households in rural communities of Anambra state, Nigeria pp. 685-695

Chukwuedozie K. Ajaero

A Monte Carlo analysis on the impact of climate change on future crop choice and water use in Uzbekistan pp. 697-709

Donna Mitchell, Ryan B. Williams, Darren Hudson and Phillip Johnson

Transforming rice cultivation in flood prone coastal Odisha to ensure food and economic security pp. 711-722

Manzoor H. Dar, Ritadhi Chakravorty, Showkat A. Waza, Mayank Sharma, Najam W. Zaidi, Amrendra N. Singh, Umesh S. Singh and Abdelbagi M. Ismail

Zero-tillage is a proven technology for sustainable wheat intensification in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains: what determines farmer awareness and adoption? pp. 723-743

Alwin Keil, Alwin D’souza and Andrew McDonald

Threats to food sufficiency among smallholder farmers in Choma, Zambia pp. 745-758

Kabwe Harnadih Mubanga and Willem Ferguson

An ethnographic exploration of perceptions of changes in dietary variety in the Kolli Hills, India pp. 759-771

Tian Huang, Anna P. Farmer, Ellen Goddard, Noreen Willows and Fatheema Subhan

Household food security, economic empowerment, and the social capital of women’s shea butter production in Mali pp. 773-784

Colleen C. Naughton, Tara F. Deubel and James R. Mihelcic

Homestead pond polyculture can improve access to nutritious small fish pp. 785-801

Sarah A. Castine, Jessica R. Bogard, Benoy K. Barman, Manjurul Karim, Md. Mokarrom Hossain, Mrityunjoy Kunda, A. B. M. Mahfuzul Haque, Michael J. Phillips and Shakuntala H. Thilsted

New protein sources and food legislation: the case of edible insects and EU law pp. 803-814

Simone Belluco, A. Halloran and A. Ricci

Producer to retailer price transmission in cereal markets of Ethiopia pp. 815-829

Muhammed Usman and Mekbib Haile

Food security in a remittance based economy pp. 831-848

Madhav Regmi and Krishna Paudel

Establishing the link between market orientation and agricultural commercialization: Empirical evidence from Northern Ghana pp. 849-866

Edward Martey, Prince M. Etwire, Alexander Wiredu and Benjamin D. K. Ahiabor

A spatial analytic framework for assessing and improving food aid distribution in developing countries pp. 867-880

Kathryn Grace, Ran Wei and Alan T. Murray

Roy H. Behnke and Michael Mortimore: the end of desertification? Disputing environmental change in the Drylands pp. 881-882

Peter J. Gregory

Derek Byerlee, Walter P. Falcon and Rosamond L. Naylor: the tropical oil crop revolution: food, feed, fuel and forests pp. 883-885

Ann Bruce

Volume 9, issue 3, 2017

In this issue pp. 415-417

Richard Strange

Change of senior editors pp. 419-419

Richard Strange

Inuit food security in canada: arctic marine ethnoecology pp. 421-440

Paul Watts, Konstantia Koutouki, Shawn Booth and Susan Blum

Do rituals serve as a brake on innovation in staple food cropping in Timor-Leste? pp. 441-451

Martin Browne, Luisa Goncalo, Anita Ximenes, Modesto Lopes and William Erskine

Fruit production and consumption: practices, preferences and attitudes of women in rural western Kenya pp. 453-469

Gudrun B. Keding, Katja Kehlenbeck, Gina Kennedy and Stepha McMullin

Can insects increase food security in developing countries? An analysis of Kenyan consumer preferences and demand for cricket flour buns pp. 471-484

Mohammed Hussen Alemu, Søren Olsen, Suzanne E. Vedel, John N. Kinyuru and Kennedy O. Pambo

The influences of spatiotemporal change of cultivated land on food crop production potential in China pp. 485-495

Xinliang Xu, Liang Wang, Hongyan Cai, Luyao Wang, Luo Liu and Hongzhi Wang

The political economy of food price policy during the global food price crisis of 2006-2008 pp. 497-509

Derrill Watson

Food security in Iraq: results from quantitative and qualitative surveys pp. 511-522

Eckart Woertz

Extreme weather, food security and the capacity to adapt – the case of crops in China pp. 523-535

Taoyuan Wei, Solveig Glomsrød and Tianyi Zhang

How climate-smart is conservation agriculture (CA)? – its potential to deliver on adaptation, mitigation and productivity on smallholder farms in southern Africa pp. 537-560

Christian Thierfelder, Pauline Chivenge, Walter Mupangwa, Todd S. Rosenstock, Christine Lamanna and Joseph X. Eyre

Impact of a participatory agroecological development project on household wealth and food security in Malawi pp. 561-576

Joseph Kangmennaang, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Esther Lupafya, Laifolo Dakishoni, Mangani Katundu and Isaac Luginaah

Maize yield response, nitrogen use efficiency and financial returns to fertilizer on smallholder farms in southern Africa pp. 577-593

Bashir Jama, David Kimani, Rebbie Harawa, Abednego Kiwia Mavuthu and Gudeta W. Sileshi

Innovative and beneficial informal sweetpotato seed private enterprise in northern Uganda pp. 595-610

Paul Rachkara, David Paul Phillips, Stephen Wamala Kalule and Richard William Gibson

Determinants and income effect of yam postharvest loss management: evidence from the Zabzugu District of Northern Ghana pp. 611-620

Isaac Gershon Kodwo Ansah, Bright K. D. Tetteh and Samuel A. Donkoh

Improvement of traditional processing of local monkey orange (Strychnos spp.) fruits to enhance nutrition security in Zimbabwe pp. 621-633

Ruth T. Ngadze, Ruud Verkerk, Loveness K. Nyanga, Vincenzo Fogliano and Anita R. Linnemann

School gardening in Bhutan: Evaluating outcomes and impact pp. 635-648

Pepijn Schreinemachers, Bal Bdr Rai, Desang Dorji, Hsiao-pu Chen, Thinley Dukpa, Namgay Thinley, Passang Lhamo Sherpa and Ray-Yu Yang

Book Review pp. 649-652

Barbara Burlingame

Global panel on agriculture and food systems for nutrition: food systems and diets: facing the challenges of the 21st century pp. 653-654

Peter Scott

Tudge C.: six steps back to the land pp. 655-656

Malcolm Blackie

Volume 9, issue 2, 2017

In this issue pp. 193-194

R. Strange

An agenda for integrated system-wide interdisciplinary agri-food research pp. 195-210

Peter Horton, Steve A. Banwart, Dan Brockington, Garrett W. Brown, Richard Bruce, Duncan Cameron, Michelle Holdsworth, S. C. Lenny Koh, Jurriaan Ton and Peter Jackson

Australia’s nutritional food balance: situation, outlook and policy implications pp. 211-226

Bradley Ridoutt, Danielle Baird, Kathryn Bastiaans, Ross Darnell, Gilly Hendrie, Malcolm Riley, Peerasak Sanguansri, Julie Syrette, Manny Noakes and Brian Keating

Aid or abyss? Food assistance programs (FAPs), food security and livelihoods in Humla, Nepal pp. 227-238

Yograj Gautam and Peter Andersen

Remittances and household nutrition: evidence from rural Kilimanjaro in Tanzania pp. 239-253

Rosemary E. Isoto and David S. Kraybill

Does consumption of tobacco and alcohol affect household food security? Evidence from rural India pp. 255-279

Jaya Jumrani and Pratap Birthal

Weather extremes and household welfare in rural Kenya pp. 281-300

Ayala Wineman, Nicole M. Mason, Justus Ochieng and Lilian Kirimi

The importance and challenges of crop germplasm interdependence: the case of Bhutan pp. 301-310

Mahesh Ghimiray and Ronnie Vernooy

Crop health and its global impacts on the components of food security pp. 311-327

S. Savary, S. Bregaglio, L. Willocquet, D. Gustafson, D. Mason D’Croz, A. Sparks, N. Castilla, A. Djurle, C. Allinne, Mamta Sharma, V. Rossi, L. Amorim, A. Bergamin, J. Yuen, P. Esker, Neil McRoberts, J. Avelino, E. Duveiller, Jawoo Koo and K. Garrett

Moving in the right direction? The role of price subsidies in fertilizer use and maize productivity in Ghana pp. 329-353

Catherine Ragasa and Antony Chapoto

Resilience and child malnutrition in Mali pp. 355-370

Marco d’Errico and Rebecca Pietrelli

Aspirations and food security in rural Ethiopia pp. 371-385

Daniel Mekonnen and Nicolas Gerber

Women and men farmer perceptions of economic and health benefits of orange fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) in Phalombe and Chikwawa districts in Malawi pp. 387-400

Netsayi N. Mudege, Sarah Mayanja and Tawanda Muzhingi

Agriculture at the Crossroads: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide pp. 401-404

Manda Foo and Paul Teng

Calestous Juma: Innovation and its enemies: Why people resist new technologies pp. 405-409

Jonathan Gressel

Hundloe, T., Blagrove, S. and Ditton, H. (eds.): Australia’s role in feeding the world: the future of Australian agriculture pp. 411-413

William J. Davies

Volume 9, issue 1, 2017

In this issue pp. 1-2

Richard Strange

Alerts for policy makers extracted from papers published during 2016 in volume 8 of food security pp. 3-4

Richard Strange

The role of wild edible plants in household food security among transitioning hunter-gatherers: evidence from the Philippines pp. 11-24

Homervergel G. Ong and Young-Dong Kim

Impacts of community-based fish culture in seasonal floodplains on income, food security and employment in Bangladesh pp. 25-38

A. B. M. Mahfuzul Haque and Madan Mohan Dey

Increasing productivity and improving livelihoods in aquatic agricultural systems: a review of interventions pp. 39-60

O.M. Joffre, S.A. Castine, M.J. Phillips, S. Senaratna Sellamuttu, D. Chandrabalan and P. Cohen

Erratum to: Increasing productivity and improving livelihoods in aquatic agricultural systems: a review of interventions pp. 61-62

O.M. Joffre, S.A. Castine, M.J. Phillips, S. Senaratna Sellamuttu, D. Chandrabalan and P. Cohen

Monitoring population diet quality and nutrition status with household consumption and expenditure surveys: suggestions for a Bangladesh baseline pp. 63-88

John L. Fiedler and Keith Lividini

Is agriculture connected with stunting in Indonesian children living in a rice surplus area? A case study in Demak regency, central Java pp. 89-98

Ratna Chrismiari Purwestri, Loretta Renz, Nia Novita Wirawan, Ignasius Radix A. P. Jati, Ilmia Fahmi and Hans Konrad Biesalski

Comparison of the modeled potential yield versus the actual yield of maize in Northeast China and the implications for national food security pp. 99-114

Hongdan Li, Wenjiao Shi, Bing Wang, Tingting An, Shuang Li, Shuangyi Li and Jingkuan Wang

Is production intensification likely to make farm households food-adequate? A simple food availability analysis across smallholder farming systems from East and West Africa pp. 115-131

R. S. Ritzema, R. Frelat, S. Douxchamps, S. Silvestri, M. C. Rufino, M. Herrero, K. E. Giller, S. López-Ridaura, N. Teufel, B. K. Paul and M. T. Wijk

Sustainable intensification options for smallholder maize-based farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 133-150

Klaus J. Droppelmann, Sieglinde S. Snapp and Stephen R. Waddington

Young people’s perspectives on farming in Ghana: a Q study pp. 151-161

James Sumberg, Thomas Yeboah, Justin Flynn and Nana Akua Anyidoho

Potential determinants of food security among refugees in the U.S.: an examination of pre- and post- resettlement factors pp. 163-179

Danielle L. Nunnery and Jigna M. Dharod

Roads to interdisciplinarity – working at the nexus among food systems, nutrition and health pp. 181-189

F. Picchioni, Elisabetta Aurino, L. Aleksandrowicz, M. Bruce, S. Chesterman, P. Dominguez-Salas, Z. Gersten, S. Kalamatianou, C. Turner and J. Yates

Daniel Callahan: The five horsemen of the modern world: climate, food, water, disease and obesity pp. 191-192

Steven Yearley