Food Security

Dear Colleagues,

The global food security challenge is well recognised in relevant policy and science communities. Many international reports and reviews have been published establishing the broad parameters of the challenge, particularly following the 2008 food price spikes. This special issue will focus on responses to the challenge. How have science priorities evolved and shifted in response, and how much progress has been made? What are the key emerging technologies to address food production and sustainability issues? What have been the economic, social and policy responses? The special issue is particularly seeking papers that will report on research designed to tackle any of the following aspects of the challenge:

• Natural resources — managing and enhancing soils, water and ecosystems to improve global food security sustainably.
• Technology — advances in production efficiency, including precision farming, the application of genomics, and the development of technologies and farming systems suitable for small holding agriculture.
• Disease — developments in plant pathology and biosecurity.
• Waste — technical and social solutions to reducing waste from field to fork.
• Science policy — is funding for agricultural R&D adequate and well directed, what is are the respective roles for public and private research, what are the emerging research priorities?
• Agro-food systems — are global (and local) systems of production and distribution fit for purpose? Is the nutrition transition a ‘given’ or should responding to the food security challenge involve changing consumer trends?

Prof. Dr. Michael Winter
Guest Editor

 

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