World Food Policy Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2015 | Page 3

World Food Policy - Volume 2, Number 1 - Spring 2015

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Editorial: Welcome to World Food Policy

n this third issue, World Food Policy (WFP) presents articles, featuring global perspectives on food as well as food policies in regional and national contexts – ranging from Latin America to Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The roles of cross-continent actors are also explored in terms of implications for policy intervention. Several
articles revisit or take issue with the phenomenon with which food policy experts are
well familiar– the green revolution – but their arguments interestingly reflect different
perspectives of the authors.
To introduce an interactive dimension to the journal, our editorial Board Member has
provided a version of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education
(IUHPE) Position Paper on food systems and health promotion – as a ‘LET’s DEBATE’
piece of this issue. We hope to gather over the coming three issues feedback on the arguments contained in the paper – and to solicit further debate regarding the problems
being addressed.
The 2015 World Food Policy conference: The Future Faces of Food and Farming; Regional Challenges, to be held in Bangkok, between December 17-18, is also expected
to provide an opportunity for presentation of research findings and policy debates,
with the aim to generate an interactive, multi-disciplinary forum for the journal.

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