Introducing the Senior Editors of Food Security

Owing to the evolution of Food Security over the 3 ½ years of its existence it has become necessary to appoint three Senior Editors, who will be responsible for assisting the progression of papers through the editorial system. I am delighted to announce that Eric Craswell, Stephen Waddington and Per Pinstrup-Andersen have accepted these roles and will be responsible for papers which fall into the Physical, Biological and Socio-Politico-Economic spheres, respectively. Please see below for their short biographies and photographs.

Eric Craswell studied soil science at the University of Queensland and obtained his PhD for research on the nitrogen balance of wheat on cracking clay soils. His subsequent work focussed on nitrogen cycling and on fertilizer efficiency for rice and wheat at research institutions in Queensland, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Philippines and Austria. Later in his career he spent an extended period in research management in the area of sustainable resources management in developing countries, including 13 years in Canberra as Co-ordinator of the Land and Water Resources Programme at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, and five years in Bangkok as Director General of the International Board for Soil Research and Management. More recently he was three years at the Centre for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany as Executive Officer of the Global Water System Project, under the Earth System Science Partnership programme. He currently follows his interests in nutrient cycling and fertilizers as a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School on Environment and Society, Australian National University and also has an appointment as Director of Training and Master Classes at the Crawford Fund. He has published 110 + papers as author and 10 books as editor.

Stephen Waddington is an agronomist. He has 26 years of experience working with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) and its partners in Mexico, southern and eastern Africa and in Bangladesh. His main research interests involve smallholder farming systems and participatory research, maize and wheat crop production agronomy, soil fertility and water management, and cereal yield physiology. He has considerable experience in capacity building and networking in many of these areas. Waddington was South Asia regional agronomist and head of the CIMMYT Office in Bangladesh from 2005 to 2007 and is currently located in Mexico.

Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University and Adjunct Professor, Copenhagen University. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Agricultural Economics Association. He is the 2001 World Food Prize Laureate. His recent publications include “Food Policy for Developing Countries” (Cornell University Press 2011) co-authored with Derrill Watson.