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Motivation for Global Food Security arose from concern about the difficulty for scientists and policy makers to keep up with the expanding volume of information published about the challenge of ensuring food systems are meeting human food and nutritional requirements while protecting the environment, securing livelihoods, mitigating against climate change, and ensuring equity.

Global Food Security aims to publish papers that contribute to better understanding of economic, social, biophysical, technological, and institutional drivers of current and future global food security, nutrition and food systems. It aims to stimulate debate that is rooted in strong science, has strong interdisciplinary connections, and recognizes trade-offs that often occur as a result of reconciling competing objectives and outcomes that may differ depending on spatial and temporal scale.

While integration across academic disciplines is encouraged, papers on components of Global Food Security will also be considered if they address important constraints and have a broad inference space. The goal is to publish concise and timely reviews and synthesis articles about research on following elements of food security and food systems:
•Food availability (sufficient quantity and quality)
•Food access (economic and physical access, functioning markets and food environments)
•Food safety, nutrition and sanitation
•Stability, environment and climate change (resilience and ecosystem services)

The type of articles the Journal publishes is:
•Strategic views of experts from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives on prospects for ensuring food security and nutrition, based on the best available science, in a clear and readable form for a wide audience, bridging the gap between biological, social and environmental sciences.
•Reviews, opinions and debates that synthesize, extend and critique research approaches and findings from the rapidly growing body of original publications on global food security, nutrition and food systems.

Distinguishing features of Global Food Security content are:
•issues that contain several papers that address specific, timely topics of importance to food security, nutrition and food systems;
•authors who are recognized authorities in their field;
•a focus on food security, nutrition and food systems challenges in an interdisciplinary manner and at national to global scales; and
•a focus on challenging current paradigms, seeking to provide out-of-the box thinking on global issues.

Given this focus, Global Food Security is considered an invaluable source of information for researchers, lecturers, teachers, students, professionals, policy makers and the international media.