1. In this issue

   • Richard Strange

   Editorial 12 November 2015 Pages: 1095 - 1096

2. Introduction to the special section “Food Trade Relations of the Middle East and North Africa with Countries of the Tropics: Opportunities and Risks of South-South Cooperation”

   • Jordi Bacaria
   • Karim El Aynaoui
   • Eckart Woertz

   Editorial 19 October 2015 Pages: 1097 - 1099

3. Food trade relations of the Middle East and North Africa with tropical countries

   • Eckart Woertz
   • Martin Keulertz

   Original Paper 19 October 2015 Pages: 1101 - 1111

   

4. Water resource decoupling in the MENA through food trade as a mechanism for circumventing national water scarcity

   • Michael Gilmont

   Original Paper 09 November 2015 Pages: 1113 - 1131

   

5. Tropical agriculturalisation: scenarios, their environmental impacts and the role of climate change in determining water-for-food, locally and along supply chains

   • Mark Mulligan

   Original Paper 13 November 2015 Pages: 1133 - 1152

   

6. Brazil’s South-South Cooperation in food security

   • Gabriela Marcondes
   • Tom De Bruyn

   Original Paper 24 October 2015 Pages: 1153 - 1164

   

7. Beyond the dualities: a nuanced understanding of Brazilian soybean producers

   • Vanessa Empinotti

   Original Paper 23 October 2015 Pages: 1165 - 1174

   

8. South-South cooperation: Brazilian soy diplomacy looking East?

   • Jeroen Warner

   Original Paper Open access 25 November 2015 Pages: 1175 - 1185

9. The socio-cultural, institutional and gender aspects of the water transfer-agribusiness model for food and water security. Lessons learned from Peru

   • Juana Vera Delgado

   Original Paper 23 October 2015 Pages: 1187 - 1197

   

10. Reconciling food and water security objectives of MENA and sub-Saharan Africa: is there a role for large-scale agricultural investments?

    • Timothy Olalekan Williams

    Original Paper 27 October 2015 Pages: 1199 - 1209

    

11. Welfare impacts of smallholder farmers’ participation in maize and pigeonpea markets in Tanzania

    • Frank E. Mmbando
    • Edilegnaw Z. Wale
    • Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi

    Original Paper 03 November 2015 Pages: 1211 - 1224

    

12. Subsidies promote use of drought tolerant maize varieties despite variable yield performance under smallholder environments in Malawi

    • Stein T. Holden
    • Monica Fisher

    Original Paper Open access 02 November 2015 Pages: 1225 - 1238

    

13. Impact of agricultural technology adoption on asset ownership: the case of improved cassava varieties in Nigeria

    • Bola Amoke Awotide
    • Arega D. Alene
    • Victor M. Manyong

    Original Paper 28 September 2015 Pages: 1239 - 1258

    

14. Horticultural practice and germplasm conservation: a case study in a rural population of the Patagonian steppe

    • Cecilia Eyssartier
    • Ana H. Ladio
    • Mariana Lozada

    Original Paper 07 November 2015 Pages: 1259 - 1271

    

15. Does Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program improve child nutrition?

    • Bethelhem Legesse Debela
    • Gerald Shively
    • Stein T. Holden

    Original Paper 15 September 2015 Pages: 1273 - 1289

    

16. Sustainability spaces for complex agri-food systems

    • Stephen Whitfield
    • Tim G. Benton
    • Lindsay C. Stringer

    Original Paper 14 October 2015 Pages: 1291 - 1297

    

17. Gendered food security in rural Malawi: why is women’s food security status lower?

    • Menale Kassie
    • Jesper Stage
    • Olaf Erenstein

    Original Paper 07 November 2015 Pages: 1299 - 1320

    

18. Household wealth and adoption of improved maize varieties in Nepal: a double-hurdle approach

    • Raju Ghimire
    • Wen-Chi Huang

    Original Paper 07 November 2015 Pages: 1321 - 1335

    

19. Technical convening on smallholder agricultural transformation, Arlington, VA, USA, May 7–8, 2015

    • Anwar Naseem
    • Carl E. Pray
    • James F. Oehmke

    Conference Report 02 November 2015 Pages: 1337 - 1340

20. F. Bailey Norwood, Pascal A. Oltenacu, Michelle S. Calvo-Lorenzo and Sarah Lancaster: Agricultural & food controversies: what everyone needs to know

    • Jonathan Ingram

    Book Review 09 October 2015 Pages: 1341 - 1342

21. Rosamond L. Naylor (Editor): The evolving sphere of food security

    • Prabhu L. Pingali

    Book Review 15 October 2015 Pages: 1343 - 1344