1. In this issue

   • Richard Strange

   Editorial 30 December 2012 Pages: 1 - 2

2. Richard “Dick” Ian Hamilton 1930–2012

   • Allan Dodds

   Obituary 17 January 2013 Pages: 3 - 4

   

3. Acknowledgement of editors and reviewers

   • Richard Strange

   Editorial 24 January 2013 Pages: 5 - 7

4. Alerts for policy makers extracted from papers published during 2012 in volume 4 of Food Security

   • Richard Strange

   Editorial 05 January 2013 Pages: 9 - 11

5. Crops that feed the world 9. Oats- a cereal crop for human and livestock feed with industrial applications

   • Athole Marshall
   • Sandy Cowan
   • Ethel White

   Original Paper 12 January 2013 Pages: 13 - 33

   

6. Water allocation rules in Afghanistan for improved food security

   • Frank A. Ward
   • Saud A. Amer
   • Fahimullah Ziaee

   Original Paper 21 November 2012 Pages: 35 - 53

   

7. Self-sufficiency policy and irrigated rice productivity in the Senegal River Valley

   • Mandiaye Diagne
   • Matty Demont
   • Adama Diaw

   Original Paper 21 December 2012 Pages: 55 - 68

   

8. Changes in quantity and quality of cropland and the implications for grain production in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China

   • Wenjiao Shi
   • Fulu Tao
   • Jiyuan Liu

   Original Paper 04 December 2012 Pages: 69 - 82

   

9. Household food insecurity in Timor-Leste

   • Marcelino dJ da Costa
   • Modesto Lopes
   • William Erskine

   Original Paper 19 December 2012 Pages: 83 - 94

   

10. Food safety and security and the dose-response

    • Edward J. Calabrese

    Original Paper 13 December 2012 Pages: 95 - 102

    

11. Demographic/socio-economic factors and dietary habits determining consumer exposure to foodborne bacterial hazards in Turkey through the consumption of meat

    • Irem Omurtag
    • Peter Paulsen
    • Frans J. M. Smulders

    Original Paper 03 January 2013 Pages: 103 - 115

    

12. The risk of transfer of foodborne bacterial hazards in Turkey through the consumption of meat; risk ranking of muscle foods with the potential to transfer Campylobacter spp.

    • Irem Omurtag
    • Peter Paulsen
    • Frans J. M. Smulders

    Original Paper 04 January 2013 Pages: 117 - 127

    

13. GCARD2 Conference 2012

    • Mark Holderness
    • Harry Palmier
    • Richard Strange

    Conference Report 11 January 2013 Pages: 129 - 134

14. Food security: some issues impacting on future food availability

    • David Skydmore

    Book Review 22 December 2012 Pages: 135 - 137

15. J.M. Lenné and D. Wood (eds.): Agrobiodiversity management for food security: A critical review

    • M. Asif
    • A. Kamran

    Book Review 18 December 2012 Pages: 139 - 140