In January 2007, a Call for Papers was put out in preparation for the International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security, 3-5 May, to be held at FAO Headquarers in Rome, Italy. Over the course of 3 months, 115 papers related to organic agriculture and food security were submitted by farmers, students, researchers and civil society organizations. This overwhelming response of amazing stories reflects the effort of people around the globe who believe in organic agriculture and its capacity to contribute to improved food security. Of all the valuable contributions submitted, approximately half were selected by the Conference Steering Committee and are presented in this compilation. Papers were selected on the basis of the number of people/farmers involved with the case studies, the scope of the work, the inclusion of empirical observations and scientific experiments and on the link made between organic agriculture and food security. In our Call for Papers we had requested that authors categorize their papers based on one of the four food security dimensions: food availability, food access, stability of the food supply system and food utilization. This proved to be a learning experience both for us, the reviewers, and for the authors because, as is so often the case with organic agriculture, the diversity of work and the topics covered could not defined by one area. This process allowed contributors to place their work/experience within the very multidimensional framework of food security