Volume 8, Issue 1

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February 2016

Plant health and food security, linking economics, policy and industry

Issue Editor:

Alan MacLeod

30 articles in this issue

In this issue
Richard Strange
Editorial 14 January 2016 Pages: 1 - 3
Alerts for policy makers extracted from papers published during 2015 in volume 7 of Food Security
Richard Strange
Editorial 14 January 2016 Pages: 5 - 9
Acknowledgement of editors and reviewers

Acknowledgements 27 January 2016 Pages: 11 - 16
Plant health and food security, linking science, economics, policy and industry
Alan MacLeod
Glyn D. Jones
Rick A. Mumford
Original Paper 16 November 2015 Pages: 17 - 25
Options for managing the infectious animal and plant disease risks of international trade
Charles Perrings
Original Paper 18 December 2015 Pages: 27 - 35
A bio-economic ‘war game’ model to simulate plant disease incursions and test response strategies at the landscape scale
David C. Cook
Jean-Philippe Aurambout
Savi Maharaj
Original Paper 24 December 2015 Pages: 37 - 48
Eradicate, contain, or live with it? Collaborating with stakeholders to evaluate responses to invasive species
Shuang Liu
David Cook
Original Paper 21 December 2015 Pages: 49 - 59
Bioeconomics of invasive species: using real options theory to integrate ecology, economics, and risk management
Charles Sims
David Finnoff
Jason F. Shogren
Original Paper 13 January 2016 Pages: 61 - 70
Linking science and policy to better protect Canada from plant pests
Robert Favrin
Lesley Cree
Original Paper 23 December 2015 Pages: 71 - 75
Action against pest spread—the case for retrospective analysis with a focus on timing
Martin Ward
Original Paper 23 December 2015 Pages: 77 - 81
Biosecurity and food security—effective mechanisms for public-private partnerships
Greg Fraser
Original Paper 30 December 2015 Pages: 83 - 87
Managing risks from pests in global commodity networks – policy perspectives
Julie Flood
Roger Day
Original Paper Open access 08 December 2015 Pages: 89 - 101
The role and challenges of new diagnostic technology in plant biosecurity
R. A. Mumford
R. Macarthur
N. Boonham
Original Paper 29 December 2015 Pages: 103 - 109
Agricultural landscape structure and invasive species: the cost-effective level of crop field clustering
Martin Drechsler
Julia Touza
Glyn Jones
Original Paper 07 January 2016 Pages: 111 - 121
Is resilience a useful concept in the context of food security and nutrition programmes? Some conceptual and practical considerations
Christophe Béné
Derek Headey
Klaus von Grebmer
Original Paper 23 December 2015 Pages: 123 - 138
Observations of entomophagy across Benin – practices and potentials
L. G. Riggi
M. Veronesi
R. L. Verspoor
Review 25 October 2015 Pages: 139 - 149
Erratum to: Observations of entomophagy across Benin – practices and potentials
L. G. Riggi
M. Veronesi
R. L. Verspoor
Erratum 06 February 2016 Pages: 151 - 152
Mopane worm (Imbrasia belina) and rural household food security in Limpopo province, South Africa
L. J. S. Baiyegunhi
B. B. Oppong
G. M. Senyolo
Original Paper 07 January 2016 Pages: 153 - 165
In search of a global model of cultivation: using remote sensing to examine the characteristics and constraints of agricultural production in the developing world
Greg Husak
Kathryn Grace
Original Paper 14 January 2016 Pages: 167 - 177
Seed systems smallholder farmers use
Shawn McGuire
Louise Sperling
Original Paper Open access 18 January 2016 Pages: 179 - 195
Factors affecting farmers’ adoption of NERICA upland rice varieties: the case of a seed producing village in central Benin
Tomonori Yokouchi
Kazuki Saito
Original Paper 05 January 2016 Pages: 197 - 209
Developing and deploying insect resistant maize varieties to reduce pre-and post-harvest food losses in Africa
Tadele Tefera
Stephen Mugo
Yoseph Beyene
Review 23 January 2016 Pages: 211 - 220
The importance of primary inoculum and area-wide disease management to crop health and food security
A. Bergamin Filho
A. K. Inoue-Nagata
S. Savary
Original Paper 07 January 2016 Pages: 221 - 238
Determinants of child nutritional status in the eastern province of Zambia: the role of improved maize varieties
Julius Manda
Cornelis Gardebroek
Menale Kassie
Original Paper 17 December 2015 Pages: 239 - 253
Frequency and extent of employing food insecurity coping strategies among rural households: determinants and implications for policy using evidence from Swaziland
M. L. Mabuza
G. F. Ortmann
E. Wale
Original Paper 18 December 2015 Pages: 255 - 269
Agroforestry extension and dietary diversity – an analysis of the importance of fruit and vegetable consumption in West Pokot, Kenya
Göran Bostedt
Agneta Hörnell
Gert Nyberg
Original Paper 25 January 2016 Pages: 271 - 284
Action for Adaptation: Bringing climate change science to policy makers - a synthesis report of a conference held in Islamabad on 23–25 July 2015
Abid Hussain
Nand Kishor Agrawal
Iris Leikanger
Conference Report 16 December 2015 Pages: 285 - 289
Agri-health research: what have we learned and where do we go next?
Fiorella Picchioni
Lukasz Aleksandrowicz
Mehroosh Tak
Conference Report 09 December 2015 Pages: 291 - 298
Critical role of animal science research in food security and sustainability
Ann Bruce
Book Review 06 November 2015 Pages: 299 - 300
Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields Black, Dagmar Schafer (eds): RICE – Global networks and new histories
Steve Hughes
Book Review 06 January 2016 Pages: 301 - 303

Volume 8, Issue 1

In this issue

Alerts for policy makers extracted from papers published during 2015 in volume 7 of Food Security

Acknowledgement of editors and reviewers

Plant health and food security, linking science, economics, policy and industry

Options for managing the infectious animal and plant disease risks of international trade

A bio-economic ‘war game’ model to simulate plant disease incursions and test response strategies at the landscape scale

Eradicate, contain, or live with it? Collaborating with stakeholders to evaluate responses to invasive species

Bioeconomics of invasive species: using real options theory to integrate ecology, economics, and risk management

Linking science and policy to better protect Canada from plant pests

Action against pest spread—the case for retrospective analysis with a focus on timing

Biosecurity and food security—effective mechanisms for public-private partnerships

Managing risks from pests in global commodity networks – policy perspectives

The role and challenges of new diagnostic technology in plant biosecurity

Agricultural landscape structure and invasive species: the cost-effective level of crop field clustering

Is resilience a useful concept in the context of food security and nutrition programmes? Some conceptual and practical considerations

Observations of entomophagy across Benin – practices and potentials

Erratum to: Observations of entomophagy across Benin – practices and potentials

Mopane worm (Imbrasia belina) and rural household food security in Limpopo province, South Africa

In search of a global model of cultivation: using remote sensing to examine the characteristics and constraints of agricultural production in the developing world

Seed systems smallholder farmers use

Factors affecting farmers’ adoption of NERICA upland rice varieties: the case of a seed producing village in central Benin

Developing and deploying insect resistant maize varieties to reduce pre-and post-harvest food losses in Africa

The importance of primary inoculum and area-wide disease management to crop health and food security

Determinants of child nutritional status in the eastern province of Zambia: the role of improved maize varieties

Frequency and extent of employing food insecurity coping strategies among rural households: determinants and implications for policy using evidence from Swaziland

Agroforestry extension and dietary diversity – an analysis of the importance of fruit and vegetable consumption in West Pokot, Kenya

Action for Adaptation: Bringing climate change science to policy makers - a synthesis report of a conference held in Islamabad on 23–25 July 2015

Agri-health research: what have we learned and where do we go next?

Critical role of animal science research in food security and sustainability

Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields Black, Dagmar Schafer (eds): RICE – Global networks and new histories

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