Agriculture & Food Security: first anniversary

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Anniversary editorial We are delighted to celebrate the first anniversary of Agriculture & Food Security with you, our readers. In our Launch Editorial [1] we highlighted the crucial role of agriculture in delivering improved food security to a global population that will reach ten billion by the end of the century, while maintaining biodiversity and other critical ecosystems services. This global challenge must confront the problems of climate change, recognizing that agricultural greenhouse gas emissions must be managed as much as possible, while using fewer natural resources and producing improved outcomes in human dimensions. Clearly this will require new knowledge-intensive processes, which are rapidly developed, rigorously tested and widely disseminated. In these causes we have emphasized the advantages of publishing in Agriculture & Food Security which, as an open access journal, provides unrestricted access to research workers, decision makers and lay people around the world. Clearly, open access gives publications a worldwide audience far larger than any subscription-based journal so as to increase the visibility and impact of published work and comply with new commitments in major international research organizations. Our journal also enhances indexing and retrieval while eliminating the need for permission to reproduce and distribute material. We are particularly grateful to the distinguished members of our Editorial Board [http://www.agricultureand foodsecurity.com/about/edboard] who have given their time to advise us on the way forward, and to participate, along with other experts, in the peer review process, which has ensured that our publications are of very high quality. Our community has welcomed Agriculture & Food Security by submitting fine manuscripts for peer review and we have published twenty-six articles (comprising nine Research Papers, eight Reviews, six Commentaries and three Editorials, including Ademola Braimoh’s Guest Editorial) along with a supplement on