{"id":9769,"date":"2013-12-17T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=9769"},"modified":"2013-12-15T23:12:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T04:12:50","slug":"from-the-latest-issue-of-food-policy-food-security-and-conflict-silos-and-food-security-gmos-in-africa-and-nutrition-post-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/9769","title":{"rendered":"From the Latest Issue of Food Policy: Food Security and Conflict, Silos and Food Security, GMOs in Africa, and Nutrition Post-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FoodPolicy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9778\" alt=\"FoodPolicy\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FoodPolicy.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I began a three-year term as associate editor over at <em>Food Policy<\/em>\u00a0at the beginning of November, which means that I handle submissions in my areas of expertise, deciding which manuscripts get reviewed and which ones get desk rejected, selecting reviewers for those manuscripts that do get reviewed, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Even after a little over month, serving as associate editor at <em>Food Policy<\/em> has given me new insights into the editorial process, which I might eventually blog about.\u00a0For now, however, I simply wanted to feature a few articles from the latest issue of the journal. There is nothing special about those articles beyond the fact that I thought they would be of interest to readers of this blog.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tusiime et al. (FP, 2013)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919213001024\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Food aid and household food security in a conflict situation: Empirical evidence from Northern Uganda<\/strong><\/a>, by Hamidu Tusiime et al.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We test targeting and impact of food aid in a conflict zone (Northern Uganda).<\/li>\n<li>Targeting was effective and according to programme objectives.<\/li>\n<li>Propensity score matching indicates food aid reduced food expenditures.<\/li>\n<li>Food aid increased meals consumed for male headed households.<\/li>\n<li>Food aid avoided distress destocking of low value assets for male headed households.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Gitonga et al. (FP, 2013)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919213001097\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Impact of metal silos on households\u2019 maize storage, storage losses and food security: An application of a propensity score matching<\/strong><\/a>, by Zachary Gitonga et al.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p0330\">Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Metal silos are effective against storage pests, improve household welfare and food security.<\/li>\n<li>Adopters waited to sell their maize at better prices and stored longer than non-adopters.<\/li>\n<li>Adopters lost little grain and on average saved between US$ 102\u2013130 worth of grain.<\/li>\n<li>Adopters stored maize for two months more and were more food secure than nonadopters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Adenle et al. (FP, 2013)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919213001346\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Status of development, regulation and adoption of GM agriculture in Africa: Views and positions of stakeholder groups<\/strong><\/a>, by Ademola Adenla et al.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Development and regulation of GM crops based on the views of 305 stakeholders in six African countries.<\/li>\n<li>Challenges in development of effective biosafety regulatory frameworks.<\/li>\n<li>Adoption of GM crops based on Fiber\u2013Feed\u2013Food (F3) approach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Haddad (FP, 2013)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919213000535\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How should nutrition be positioned in the post-2015 agenda?<\/strong><\/a>, by Lawrence Haddad<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commitment to nutrition must be locked into the next set of development goals.<\/li>\n<li>Nutrition thinking has much to offer development goal designs.<\/li>\n<li>A good post-2015 outcome for nutrition is a strong set of nutrition indicators in various goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began a three-year term as associate editor over at Food Policy\u00a0at the beginning of November, which means that I handle submissions in my areas<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/9769\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the Latest Issue of Food Policy: Food Security and Conflict, Silos and Food Security, GMOs in Africa, and Nutrition Post-2015<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-2xz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9769"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9795,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769\/revisions\/9795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}