1. In this issue

   • Richard Strange

   Editorial 22 June 2014 Pages: 445 - 446

2. How reliable are crop production data? Case studies in USA and Argentina

   • V. O. Sadras
   • P. Grassini
   • A. J. Hall

   Original Paper 18 June 2014 Pages: 447 - 459

   

3. Are the World Food Programme’s food consumption groups a good proxy for energy deficiency?

   • Margarita Lovon
   • Astrid Mathiassen

   Original Paper 19 June 2014 Pages: 461 - 470

   

4. Vulnerability of African maize yield to climate change and variability during 1961–2010

   • Wenjiao Shi
   • Fulu Tao

   Original Paper 02 July 2014 Pages: 471 - 481

   

5. Water security and rural household food security: empirical evidence from the Mzinyathi district in South Africa

   • Sikhulumile Sinyolo
   • Maxwell Mudhara
   • Edilegnaw Wale

   Original Paper 05 June 2014 Pages: 483 - 499

   

6. Improving plantain (Musa spp. AAB) yields on smallholder farms in West and Central Africa

   • Lindsey Norgrove
   • Stefan Hauser

   Original Paper Open access 24 June 2014 Pages: 501 - 514

   

7. Potato breeding in the Netherlands: a successful participatory model with collaboration between farmers and commercial breeders

   • C. J. M. Almekinders
   • L. Mertens
   • E. T. Lammerts van Bueren

   Case Study 04 July 2014 Pages: 515 - 524

   

8. Taking stock of the genetically modified seed sector worldwide: market, stakeholders, and prices

   • Sylvie Bonny

   Original Paper 28 May 2014 Pages: 525 - 540

   

9. Synergies and tradeoffs between cash crop production and food security: a case study in rural Ghana

   • Tal Lee Anderman
   • Roseline Remans
   • Ruth S. DeFries

   Case Study 06 July 2014 Pages: 541 - 554

   

10. Culture and food security: a case study of homestead food production in South Africa

    • Amy Trefry
    • John R. Parkins
    • Georgina Cundill

    Original Paper 27 June 2014 Pages: 555 - 565

    

11. Shocks in economic growth = shocking effects for food security?

    • Aikaterini Kavallari
    • Thomas Fellmann
    • S. Hubertus Gay

    Original Paper Open access 03 August 2014 Pages: 567 - 583

    

12. Food security governance: a systematic literature review

    • Jeroen J. L. Candel

    Original Paper 24 June 2014 Pages: 585 - 601

    

13. Mark W. Rosegrant, I. Jawoo Koo, Nicola Cenacchi, Claudia Ringler, Richard Robertson, Myles Fisher, Condy Cox, Karen Garrett, Nicostrato D. Perez and Pascale Sabbagh: food security in a world of natural resource scarcity - the role of agricultural technologies

    • P. J. Gregory

    Book Review 01 July 2014 Pages: 603 - 604

14. Michael H. Tunick: The Science of Cheese

    • David Ingram

    Book Review 18 June 2014 Pages: 605 - 606