1. In this issue

   • Richard Strange

   Editorial 25 October 2012 Pages: 473 - 475

2. Crops that feed the world 8: Potato: are the trends of increased global production sustainable?

   • Paul R. J. Birch
   • Glenn Bryan
   • Ian K. Toth

   Original Paper 10 November 2012 Pages: 477 - 508

   

3. Mind the (yield) gap(s)

   • James Sumberg

   Original Paper 05 October 2012 Pages: 509 - 518

   

4. Crop losses due to diseases and their implications for global food production losses and food security

   • Serge Savary
   • Andrea Ficke
   • Clayton Hollier

   Editorial 15 July 2012 Pages: 519 - 537

   

5. The food security challenge of the food-land-water nexus in India

   • M. Dinesh Kumar
   • M. V. K. Sivamohan
   • A. Narayanamoorthy

   Original Paper 03 August 2012 Pages: 539 - 556

   

6. Rainfall variability and food crop portfolio choice: evidence from Ethiopia

   • Mintewab Bezabih
   • Salvatore Di Falco

   Original Paper 21 October 2012 Pages: 557 - 567

7. Fatal gaps in seed security strategy

   • Louise Sperling
   • Shawn McGuire

   Original Paper 07 August 2012 Pages: 569 - 579

8. Vulnerability of smallholder rural households to food insecurity in Eastern Ethiopia

   • Ayalneh Bogale

   Original Paper 12 August 2012 Pages: 581 - 591

9. Short-term determinants of malnutrition among children in Malawi

   • Maria Sassi

   Original Paper 20 October 2012 Pages: 593 - 606

   

10. Female-headed households and food insecurity in Brazil

    • Erica Felker-Kantor
    • Charles H. Wood

    Original Paper 11 October 2012 Pages: 607 - 617

    

11. Food insecurity in urban poor households in Mumbai, India

    • Nilesh Chatterjee
    • Genevie Fernandes
    • Mike Hernandez

    Original Paper 07 August 2012 Pages: 619 - 632

12. The short- and medium- term impacts of rises in staple food prices

    • Andrew Dorward

    Original Paper 23 August 2012 Pages: 633 - 645

    

13. Creating food self reliance among the smallholder farmers of eastern Zimbabwe: exploring the role of integrated agricultural research for development

    • Kefasi Nyikahadzoi
    • Shephard Siziba
    • Oluwole Fatunbi

    Original Paper 27 October 2012 Pages: 647 - 656

    

14. Rethinking the food security debate in Asia: some missing ecological and health dimensions and solutions

    • Mark L. Wahlqvist
    • John McKay
    • Ya-Wen Chiu

    Original Paper 12 September 2012 Pages: 657 - 670

15. 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
    • Bernado Creamer

    Conference Report 14 August 2012 Pages: 671 - 674

    

16. Benny Dembitzer: Sleep walking into global famine

    • Tam Dalyell
    • Member of the UK Parliament for West Lothian, Scotland, 1962 – 2005; weekly columnist, New Scientist, 1967 – 2005 c/o Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22 – 26 George Street, EdinburghEH2 2PQ

    Book Review 26 August 2012 Pages: 675 - 676

17. Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (eds): Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health

    • Jeff Waage

    Book Review 04 October 2012 Pages: 677 - 678

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

    • Arie Kuyvenhoven

    Book Review 07 October 2012 Pages: 679 - 681

19. Stephen Devereux, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Richard Longhurst (eds.): Seasonality, rural livelihoods and development

    • Camilla Toulmin

    Book Review 16 October 2012 Pages: 683 - 684