Editor's Note

• Published date: 01 March 2014
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/j.2372-8639.2014.tb00003.x
• Author: Mark Rosegrant
• Date: 01 March 2014

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Editor’s Note

Under the editorial sponsorship of the Royal Institute of ailand, World Food Policy

(WFP) is published by the Policy Studies Organization (PSO), as part of the PSO’s eort to

disseminate scholarship and information to serve those making, evaluating and studying

policies in the food sector.

WFP welcomes articles, which explore various aspects of policies and decisions that aect

food systems at the global, regional and transnational levels, including comparative nation-

al food policies and policies pertaining to non-food commodities with noticeable impact

on the world food markets.

e editorial process of WFP is overseen by an international editorial board of renowned

experts in dierent elds to ensure the publication of a scholarly peer-reviewed, multidis-

ciplinary journal. Communicability among scholars and practitioners from various dis-

ciplines and sectors is the guiding principle in the selection and editing of papers to be

published in the journal. Rigor will not be sacriced, but technical jargons specic to any

particular eld and mathematical expressions (beyond simple equations) should be avoid-

ed, and if absolutely unavoidable, should be carefully explained. Articles while based on

sound analysis should provide insights useful for practical policy making.

To launch the journal, WFP has invited a number of leading scholars to write for the rst

two inaugural issues. is rst one will look at the food sector from global perspectives,

while the next one, to be published in the autumn of 2014, explores food policies from

regional and national perspectives. WFP will accept submissions of papers for subsequent

issues, beginning with WFP volume 2, number 1, Spring 2015.

e editors hope that WFP will help provide a multi-disciplinary forum for generating the

analysis and understanding of global trends as well as regional and local forces shaping food

and food policies around the world.