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 Call for papers Special issue “Science, Technology and Food Security” Guest editors :Antoine Bernard de Raymond (INRA, France ; antoine.deraymond@inra.fr )Frédéric Goulet (CIRAD, France ; frederic.goulet@cirad.fr) Food security, as other global challenges like climate change, has driven the activities and discourses of many different players (national and international public institutions, industries, NGOs, farmers’ organizations, etc.) over the last ten years. Originally rooted in the problem of hunger in developing countries, food security is now an issue embedding new forms of North-South, South-South or North-North relationships. Issues of global governance, social movements, market regulations or food systems have been extensively discussed by scholars giving substance to food security studies. But relatively little attention has been paid to the ways in which science and technology contribute to shape, or to address debates on food security. The aim of this special issue of Science, Technology and Society is to explore the role of science and technology in the contemporary understandings and government of food security, particularly in terms of global South/North relations.The literature has described, and often generated debates around the place of science and technology in the definition of food security and the making of solutions to the food security challenge. Contributions have highlighted for example the reactivation of a productivist agenda after the 2008 food crisis (Dibden et al., 2013). Authors have shown how the food security issue has been used to widespread a discourse on “feeding the 9 billion in 2050” (Tomlinson, 2013), promoting technological solutions such as GMO’s (Williams, 2009), and reactivating the imaginary of the Green Revolution and the fight against hunger based on scientific principles (Phillips and Ilcan, 2003). In the same way, they described (and sometimes promoted) the expansion of critical alternatives against the supremacy of science and technology, arguing that a food regime change would entail a new agenda for research (Carolan, 2012), or new patterns of relations between science and agrifood systems (Riverra-Ferra, 2012). These changes would include the promotion of agroecological practices (McMichael, 2012), place-based, participatory and reflexive forms of knowledge (Marsden, 2013). This special issue aims to describe these controversies, and the role of science and technology in shaping “solutions” to the food security problem. The ability of scientific and technological actors to legitimate or discriminate certain options, to design some (un-)acceptable futures or promises, are aspects that need to be explored.This special issue also seeks to understand the ways in which food security challenges have contributed to transform scientific and technological fields. There is a need for example to explore the consequences of the definition of food security as a societal grand challenge (Wright, 2012) on the structuration and the activities of the scientific field. Food security has become a key word, an umbrella term (Rip and Voß 2013) under which scientists, but also industrials, have been called to contribute, in order to get funding or justify the social contributions of their activities. Hypothesis can even be made that agricultural research contributes to legitimate and perform the problem of food security itself, securing the funding of its activity and their relevance. It is thus important to understand both what science does to food security and what food security does to science and technology, how they are coproduced at global and local levels (Jasanoff, 2004). Contributions may explore how tools like models and foresight/prospective studies developed by experts contribute to shape agendas for agricultural research and international development.This special issue of Science, Technology and Society will contribute to provide a fresh look at these debates, with contributions based on local, national or transnational empirical cases studies. For example, it will tackle issues such as: How science and technology actors contribute to shape food security as a public problem, and bring it onto political agenda, for instance in agricultural research, international development policy and trade agreements How Food security has become a framework of mobilization, legitimation and funding for agricultural research, as science is becoming increasingly driven by “grand challenges” How scientific communities and institutions, but also industry, mobilize/engage in order to offer technological solutions to solving the food security problem, and favor new productive arrangements in various regions How these debates and controversies reflect contemporary matches or mismatches between scientific disciplines, for example between “hard” sciences and social sciences, or between economics and social sciencesContributions exploring other aspects of the relationships between science, technology and food security, are obviously welcome.Schedule  : Submission of abstracts (500 words): May 1st 2017 Submission of first drafts (7500 – 8000 words): September 15th 2017 Final submission: January 2018Please send abstracts to: antoine.deraymond@inra.fr and frederic.goulet@cirad.fr About Science, Technology and Society journal:  Science, Technology and Society is an international journal devoted to the study of science and technology in social context. It focuses on the way in which advances in science and technology influence society and vice versa. It is a peer-reviewed journal that takes an interdisciplinary perspective, encouraging analyses whose approaches are drawn from a variety of disciplines such as history, sociology, philosophy, economics, political science and international relations, science policy involving innovation, foresight studies involving science and technology, technology management, environmental studies, energy studies and gender studies. The journal consciously endeavors to combine scholarly perspectives relevant to academic research and policy issues relating to development. Besides research articles the journal encourages research-based country reports, commentaries and book reviews. Science, technology and Society is published in association with the Society for the Promotion of Science and Technology Studies.More information and instruction for authors: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sts