1. In this issue

   • Richard Strange

   Editorial 09 March 2014 Pages: 157 - 158

2. Physical limitations and challenges to Grain Security in China

   • Jianmin Li
   • Zhaohu Li

   Original Paper 11 January 2014 Pages: 159 - 167

   

3. Managing the biological environment to promote and sustain crop productivity and quality

   • Fen D. Beed

   Original Paper 06 March 2014 Pages: 169 - 186

   

4. Can we improve global food security? A socio-economic and political perspective

   • Ulrike Grote

   Original Paper 10 January 2014 Pages: 187 - 200

   

5. Future threats to agricultural food production posed by environmental degradation, climate change, and animal and plant diseases – a risk analysis in three economic and climate settings

   • Jens F. Sundström
   • Ann Albihn
   • Ulf Magnusson

   Original Paper Open access 17 February 2014 Pages: 201 - 215

   

6. Evaluating the impact of improved maize varieties on food security in Rural Tanzania: Evidence from a continuous treatment approach

   • Menale Kassie
   • Moti Jaleta
   • Alessandra Mattei

   Original Paper 20 February 2014 Pages: 217 - 230

   

7. A global alliance declaring war on cassava viruses in Africa

   • James Legg
   • Eklou Attiogbevi Somado
   • Claude Fauquet

   Conference Report Open access 03 April 2014 Pages: 231 - 248

   

8. Rodent outbreaks and rice pre-harvest losses in Southeast Asia

   • Adam John

   Original Paper 26 February 2014 Pages: 249 - 260

9. Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Markets: strengthening the advocacy capacities of national farmer organisations through collaborative research

   • Giel Ton
   • Karin de Grip
   • Felicity J. Proctor

   Original Paper 18 March 2014 Pages: 261 - 273

10. An adapted Household Food Insecurity Access Scale is a valid tool as a proxy measure of food access for use in urban Iran

    • Nahid Salarkia
    • Morteza Abdollahi
    • Tirang Reza Neyestani

    Original Paper 28 February 2014 Pages: 275 - 282

    

11. Exploring the impact of the 2008 global food crisis on food security among vulnerable households in rural South Africa

    • Raphael J. Nawrotzki
    • Kristin Robson
    • Petra Norlund

    Original Paper Open access 07 March 2014 Pages: 283 - 297

    

12. Achieving global food security whilst reconciling demands on the environment: report of the First International Conference on Global Food Security

    • S. Dogliotti
    • K. E. Giller
    • M. K. Van Ittersum

    Conference Report 21 February 2014 Pages: 299 - 302

13. A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi: Hungry for change: farmers, food justice and the agrarian question

    • R. K. Whittle

    Book Review 23 February 2014 Pages: 303 - 305

14. Xinshen Diao, James Thurlow, Samuel Benin & Shenggen Fan (Eds): Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: economy-wide perspectives from country studies

    • Iain M. M. Gillespie

    Book Review 19 March 2014 Pages: 307 - 308