Editorial: Welcome to World Food Policy

Date01 March 2016
Published date01 March 2016
DOIhttp://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 diversication. 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 suciency 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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