Editorial: Welcome to World Food Policy
Date | 01 March 2016 |
Published date | 01 March 2016 |
DOI | http://doi.org/10.18278/wfp.2.2.3.1.1 |
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World Food Policy - Volume 2, Issue 2/Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall 2015/Spring 2016
Editorial: Welcome to World Food Policy
This double issue of World Food Policy (WFP) brings together articles submitted
for the World Food Policy Conference, held in Bangkok during December 17-
18, 2015 in celebration of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirind-
horn’s 60th Birthday Anniversary.
Organized under the theme Future Faces of Food and Farming: Regional Challenges,
the Conference aimed to provide a forum for in-depth discussions and perspective
sharing on key topics important to world food policy. It emphasized the crucial role
that research and knowledge exchange within and between academic and policy cir-
cles play in understanding multi-faceted challenges of food and food security, and in
providing guidance that can help us – collectively, regionally and globally – address
pressing policy questions related to food production and sustainability.
e articles in this issue are listed by the topics of sheries, fresh markets, food secu-
rity and income diversication. Also included are short articles from the Conference
keynote speech as well as those from the roundtable discussions on Food Security in an
Age of Falling Commodity and Food Prices – held during the Conference.
A book, Signpost of Learning, that collects His Majesty King Bhumibol’s experiments
and pilot projects on small-scale agriculture, food production, and suciency econo-
my was published by Westphalian Press of the Policy Studies Organization (PSO) for
the occasion and launched at the conference. Along with a number of presentations
by selected conference participants, the book has been made accessible at the WFP
website: http://www.ipsonet.org/publications/open-access/world-food-policy – so
that valuable lessons learned from the book and the Royal Projects will contribute to
the repertoire of best practices and body of knowledge which can be applied, adapted
and extended.
e 2015 World Food Policy Conference, which has provided the contents for this
double issue was jointly organized by the Royal Society of ailand (RST) and the Pol-
icy Studies Organization (PSO), with the nancial support from the National Research
Council of ailand (NRCT) and the National Food Institute (NFI) of ailand’s Min-
istry of Industry.
doi: 10.18278/wfp.2.2.3.1.1
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