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

2009 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.N. Strange

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Volume 7, issue 6, 2015

In this issue pp. 1095-1096

Richard Strange

Introduction to the special section “Food Trade Relations of the Middle East and North Africa with Countries of the Tropics: Opportunities and Risks of South-South Cooperation” pp. 1097-1099

Jordi Bacaria, Karim El Aynaoui and Eckart Woertz

Food trade relations of the Middle East and North Africa with tropical countries pp. 1101-1111

Eckart Woertz and Martin Keulertz

Water resource decoupling in the MENA through food trade as a mechanism for circumventing national water scarcity pp. 1113-1131

Michael Gilmont

Tropical agriculturalisation: scenarios, their environmental impacts and the role of climate change in determining water-for-food, locally and along supply chains pp. 1133-1152

Mark Mulligan

Brazil’s South-South Cooperation in food security pp. 1153-1164

Gabriela Marcondes and Tom De Bruyn

Beyond the dualities: a nuanced understanding of Brazilian soybean producers pp. 1165-1174

Vanessa Empinotti

South-South cooperation: Brazilian soy diplomacy looking East? pp. 1175-1185

Jeroen Warner

The socio-cultural, institutional and gender aspects of the water transfer-agribusiness model for food and water security. Lessons learned from Peru pp. 1187-1197

Juana Vera Delgado

Reconciling food and water security objectives of MENA and sub-Saharan Africa: is there a role for large-scale agricultural investments? pp. 1199-1209

Timothy Williams

Welfare impacts of smallholder farmers’ participation in maize and pigeonpea markets in Tanzania pp. 1211-1224

Frank Mmbando, Edilegnaw Wale and Lloyd Baiyegunhi

Subsidies promote use of drought tolerant maize varieties despite variable yield performance under smallholder environments in Malawi pp. 1225-1238

Stein Holden and Monica Fisher

Impact of agricultural technology adoption on asset ownership: the case of improved cassava varieties in Nigeria pp. 1239-1258

Bola Awotide, Arega Alene, Tahirou Abdoulaye and Victor Manyong

Horticultural practice and germplasm conservation: a case study in a rural population of the Patagonian steppe pp. 1259-1271

Cecilia Eyssartier, Ana Ladio and Mariana Lozada

Does Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program improve child nutrition? pp. 1273-1289

Bethelhem Debela, Gerald Shively and Stein Holden

Sustainability spaces for complex agri-food systems pp. 1291-1297

Stephen Whitfield, Tim Benton, Martin Dallimer, Les Firbank, Guy Poppy, Susannah Sallu and Lindsay Stringer

Gendered food security in rural Malawi: why is women’s food security status lower? pp. 1299-1320

Menale Kassie, Jesper Stage, Hailemariam Teklewold and Olaf Erenstein

Household wealth and adoption of improved maize varieties in Nepal: a double-hurdle approach pp. 1321-1335

Raju Ghimire and Wen-Chi Huang

Technical convening on smallholder agricultural transformation, Arlington, VA, USA, May 7–8, 2015 pp. 1337-1340

Anwar Naseem, Carl Pray and James Oehmke

F. Bailey Norwood, Pascal A. Oltenacu, Michelle S. Calvo-Lorenzo and Sarah Lancaster: Agricultural & food controversies: what everyone needs to know pp. 1341-1342

Jonathan Ingram

Rosamond L. Naylor (Editor): The evolving sphere of food security pp. 1343-1344

Prabhu Pingali

Volume 7, issue 5, 2015

In this issue pp. 931-932

Richard Strange

China’s water for food under growing water scarcity pp. 933-949

Feng Huang, Zhong Liu, Bradley Ridoutt, Jing Huang and Baoguo Li

Responses of rice yields in different rice-cropping systems to climate variables in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China pp. 951-963

Lechan Yang, Zhihao Qin and Lili Tu

Factors that transformed maize productivity in Ethiopia pp. 965-981

Tsedeke Abate, Bekele Shiferaw, Abebe Menkir, Dagne Wegary, Yilma Kebede, Kindie Tesfaye, Menale Kassie, Gezahegn Bogale, Berhanu Tadesse and Tolera Keno

Zero-tillage as a pathway for sustainable wheat intensification in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains: does it work in farmers’ fields? pp. 983-1001

Alwin Keil, Alwin D’souza and Andrew McDonald

Assessing the relative importance of dairy products to family nutrition in mixed crop-livestock production systems of Ethiopia pp. 1003-1015

Sintayehu Yigrem, André Markemann, Girma Abebe, Joseph Ogutu, Hans-Peter Piepho and Anne Zárate

Quantifying and visualizing access to healthy food in a rural area of Australia: A spatial analysis pp. 1017-1029

Quynh Lê, Hoang Nguyen, Daniel Terry, Stefan Dieters, Stuart Auckland and Gretchen Long

Food consumption patterns and dietary diversity in eastern India: evidence from village level studies (VLS) pp. 1031-1042

Shinoj Parappurathu, Anjani Kumar, M. Bantilan and P. Joshi

Differential effects of rising food prices on Indian households differing in income pp. 1043-1053

Sumit Mahajan, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and K. Datta

Using time series structural characteristics to analyze grain prices in food insecure countries pp. 1055-1070

Frank Davenport and Chris Funk

Food security policy assessment in the Punjab, Pakistan: effectiveness, distortions and their perceptions pp. 1071-1089

Bashir Muhammad and Steven Schilizzi

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): three recent publications pp. 1091-1092

P. Gregory

C. Peter Timmer: Food security and scarcity: why ending hunger is so hard pp. 1093-1094

Ulrike Grote

Volume 1, issue 4, 2009

In this issue pp. 387-388

Richard Strange

Norman Borlaug 1914 – 2009 pp. 389-390

Gurdev Khush

Revitalizing agricultural research for global food security pp. 391-401

Gebisa Ejeta

Improving food security through agricultural research and development in Timor-Leste: a country emerging from conflict pp. 403-412

Lourenco Borges, Adalfredo Rosario Ferreira, Deolindo Silva, Robert Williams, Rebecca Andersen, Alex Dalley, Brian Monaghan, Harry Nesbitt and William Erskine

The effect of climate change on the water and food nexus in China pp. 413-430

Jianxin Mu and Shahbaz Khan

Incorporating nutritional considerations when addressing food insecurity pp. 431-440

Prakash Shetty

Emerging and re-emerging diseases of agricultural importance: why local perspectives matter pp. 441-455

Gabriel Rugalema, Giulia Muir, Kirsten Mathieson, Emily Measures, Friderike Oehler and Libor Stloukal

Peanut improvement: production of fertile hybrids and backcross progeny between Arachis hypogaea and A. kretschmeri pp. 457-462

Nalini Mallikarjuna and David Hoisington

The other, ignored HIV — highly invasive vegetation pp. 463-478

Jonathan Gressel and Bernal Valverde

Genetic glass ceilings: Transgenics for crop biodiversity by Jonathan Gressel pp. 479-480

Ian Crute

Volume 1, issue 3, 2009

In this issue pp. 233-234

Richard Strange

Experiential household food insecurity in an urban underserved slum of North India pp. 239-250

Siddharth Agarwal, Vani Sethi, Palak Gupta, Meenakshi Jha, Ayushi Agnihotri and Mark Nord

Revisiting new variant famine: the case of Swaziland pp. 251-260

Scott Naysmith, Alex Waal and Alan Whiteside

Food prices and the HIV response: findings from rapid regional assessments in eastern and southern Africa in 2008[InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.][InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] pp. 261-269

Stuart Gillespie, Paul Jere, John Msuya and Scott Drimie

Declining global per capita agricultural production and warming oceans threaten food security pp. 271-289

Chris Funk and Molly Brown

Wanted: institutions for balancing global food and energy markets pp. 291-303

Niek Koning and Arthur Mol

The epidemiology, economic impact and control of maize streak disease pp. 305-315

Darren Martin and Dionne Shepherd

Occurrence of aflatoxin M 1 in raw, pasteurized and UHT milk commercialized in Esfahan and Shahr-e Kord, Iran pp. 317-320

Ebrahim Rahimi, Amir Shakerian, Mohsen Jafariyan, Mohammad Ebrahimi and Majid Riahi

A typology of farm households for the Umutara Province in Rwanda pp. 321-335

J. Bidogeza, Paul Berentsen, J. Graaff and Alfons Oude Lansink

Assessing the effect of Faidherbia albida based land use systems on barley yield at field and regional scale in the highlands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia pp. 337-350

Kiros Hadgu, Lammert Kooistra, Walter Rossing and Ariena Bruggen

Integrating a broader notion of food security and gender empowerment into the African Green Revolution pp. 351-360

Joel Negin, Roseline Remans, Susan Karuti and Jessica Fanzo

Tree species yielding edible fruit in the coffee-based homegardens of Kerala, India: their diversity, uses and management pp. 361-370

U. Chandrashekara

Plant health clinics in Bolivia 2000—2009: operations and preliminary results pp. 371-386

Jeffery Bentley, Eric Boa, Solveig Danielsen, Pablo Franco, Olivia Antezana, Bertho Villarroel, Henry Rodríguez, Jhon Ferrrufino, Javier Franco, René Pereira, Jaime Herbas, Oscar Díaz, Vladimir Lino, Juan Villarroel, Fredy Almendras and Saúl Colque

Volume 1, issue 2, 2009

In this issue pp. 111-112

Richard Strange

Reviewing the links between desertification and food insecurity: from parallel challenges to synergistic solutions pp. 113-126

Lindsay Stringer

Climate change, flooding and food security in south Asia pp. 127-136

Ian Douglas

Price stabilization, international trade and national cereal stocks: world price shocks and policy response in South Asia pp. 137-149

Paul Dorosh

Market information and food insecurity response analysis pp. 151-168

Christopher Barrett, Robert Bell, Erin Lentz and Daniel Maxwell

Impacts of modernisation on traditional food resource management and food security on Eauripik atoll, Federated States of Micronesia pp. 169-176

Andrew Scourse and Corinne Wilkins

A community food system analysis as formative research for a comprehensive anemia control program in Northern Afghanistan pp. 177-195

Emily Levitt, Rebecca Stoltzfus, David Pelletier and Alice Pell

Construction of a solar drying unit suitable for conservation of food and enhancement of food security in West Africa pp. 197-205

Antoine Nonclercq, Laurent Spreutels, Cédric Boey, Laurent Lonys, Benoit Dave and Benoit Haut

Exploiting locally available resources for food and nutritional security enhancement: wild fruits diversity, potential and state of exploitation in the Amhara region of Ethiopia pp. 207-219

Mengistu Fentahun and Herbert Hager

Plant pathogens as agroterrorist weapons: assessment of the threat for European agriculture and forestry pp. 221-232

Frédéric Suffert, Émilie Latxague and Ivan Sache

Volume 1, issue 1, 2009

Foreword pp. 1-1

Norman Borlaug

In this issue pp. 3-4

Richard Strange and Peter Scott

Food security: definition and measurement pp. 5-7

Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Addressing the food crisis: governance, market functioning, and investment in public goods pp. 9-15

Joachim von Braun

The politics of plants pp. 17-23

Emma Frow, David Ingram, Wayne Powell, Deryck Steer, Johannes Vogel and Steven Yearley

Why does famine persist in Africa? pp. 25-35

Stephen Devereux

The African Green Revolution moves forward pp. 37-44

Pedro Sanchez, Glenn Denning and Generose Nziguheba

Soil degradation as a reason for inadequate human nutrition pp. 45-57

R. Lal

Present and future water requirements for feeding humanity pp. 59-69

M. Falkenmark, J. Rockström and L. Karlberg

Agricultural productivity in the lower Mekong Basin: trends and future prospects for food security pp. 71-82

Mohammed Mainuddin and Mac Kirby

Spatial variation in biodiversity, soil degradation and productivity in agricultural landscapes in the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia pp. 83-97

Kiros Hadgu, Walter Rossing, Lammert Kooistra and Ariena Bruggen

Putting the poorest farmers in control of disseminating improved wheat seed: a strategy to accelerate technology adoption and alleviate poverty in Bangladesh pp. 99-109

Sam Page, Md Baksh, Etienne Duveiller and Stephen Waddington