Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2012

ISSN: 1876-4517 (Print) 1876-4525 (Online)

In this issue (19 articles)

  1. Editorial

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    Richard Strange Pages 473-475
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    Crops that feed the world 8: Potato: are the trends of increased global production sustainable?

    Paul R. J. Birch, Glenn Bryan, Brian Fenton, Eleanor M. Gilroy, Ingo Hein… Pages 477-508
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    Mind the (yield) gap(s)

    James Sumberg Pages 509-518
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    Crop losses due to diseases and their implications for global food production losses and food security

    Serge Savary, Andrea Ficke, Jean-Noël Aubertot, Clayton Hollier Pages 519-537
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    The food security challenge of the food-land-water nexus in India

    M. Dinesh Kumar, M. V. K. Sivamohan, A. Narayanamoorthy Pages 539-556
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    Rainfall variability and food crop portfolio choice: evidence from Ethiopia

    Mintewab Bezabih, Salvatore Di Falco Pages 557-567
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    Fatal gaps in seed security strategy

    Louise Sperling, Shawn McGuire Pages 569-579
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    Vulnerability of smallholder rural households to food insecurity in Eastern Ethiopia

    Ayalneh Bogale Pages 581-591
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    Short-term determinants of malnutrition among children in Malawi

    Maria Sassi Pages 593-606
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    Female-headed households and food insecurity in Brazil

    Erica Felker-Kantor, Charles H. Wood Pages 607-617
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    Food insecurity in urban poor households in Mumbai, India

    Nilesh Chatterjee, Genevie Fernandes, Mike Hernandez Pages 619-632
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    The short- and medium- term impacts of rises in staple food prices

    Andrew Dorward Pages 633-645
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    Creating food self reliance among the smallholder farmers of eastern Zimbabwe: exploring the role of integrated agricultural research for development

    Kefasi Nyikahadzoi, Shephard Siziba, Nelson Mango, Paul Mapfumo… Pages 647-656
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    Rethinking the food security debate in Asia: some missing ecological and health dimensions and solutions

    Mark L. Wahlqvist, John McKay, Ya-Chen Chang, Ya-Wen Chiu Pages 657-670
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    Conference Report

    Cassava and overcoming the challenges of global climatic change: report of the second scientific conference of the Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st century

    Glenn Hyman, Anthony Bellotti, Luis Augusto Becerra Lopez-Lavalle… Pages 671-674
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    Book Review

    Benny Dembitzer: Sleep walking into global famine

    Tam Dalyell Pages 675-676
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    Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (eds): Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health

    Jeff Waage Pages 677-678
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    Book Review

    International Food Policy Research Institute (2012): 2011 Global Food Policy Report

    Arie Kuyvenhoven Pages 679-681
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    Stephen Devereux, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Richard Longhurst (eds.): Seasonality, rural livelihoods and development

    Camilla Toulmin Pages 683-684
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