World Food Policy Volume/Issue 2-2/3-1 Fall 2015/Spring 2016 | Page 3

World Food Policy - Volume 2, Issue 2/Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall 2015/Spring 2016 T Editorial: Welcome to World Food Policy his double issue of World Food Policy (WFP) brings together articles submitted for the World Food Policy Conference, held in Bangkok during December 1718, 2015 in celebration of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’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 circles 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. The articles in this issue are listed by the topics of fisheries, fresh markets, food security and income diversification. 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 sufficiency economy 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/publicatio ns/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. The 2015 World Food Policy Conference, which has provided the contents for this double issue was jointly organized by the Royal Society of Thailand (RST) and the Policy Studies Organization (PSO), with the financial support from the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) and the National Food Institute (NFI) of Thailand’s Ministry of Industry. doi: 10.18278/wfp.2.2.3.1.1 3