Richard Strange is a Plant Pathologist and is currently Honorary Professor of Biology, University College London and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published over 100 papers and two books: Plant Disease Control, Towards Environmentally Acceptable Methods (1992) and Introduction to Plant Pathology (2003). He is co-founder (with Dr Peter Scott) and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, “Food Security: the Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food”, which began publication in the spring of 2009 www.springer.com/life+sci/agriculture/journal/12571 and was recently awarded an impact factor of 1.970.