Center on Food Security and the Environment
Research
A majority of the roughly 800 million hungry people in the world depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Improving agricultural productivity is central to alleviating hunger. We seek to generate solutions that address feeding the world without destroying the environment in the process.
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Education
We offer courses for graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford interested in issues of hunger, rural development, global resource and environmental degradation, agricultural technology, climate impacts on food security, and agricultural trade and policy.
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Core Faculty and Researchers
To address the many complex dimensions of modern environmental science, our researchers come from diverse fields, including economics, earth science, medicine, law, education, engineering, and political science. We study new approaches to global hunger and environmental degradation through an inter-disciplinary research portfolio that spans economics, policy, and the physical sciences.
David Lobell
Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment
William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, Earth System Science
David's research research focuses on agriculture and food security, specifically on generating and using unique datasets to study rural areas worldwide.
Marshall Burke
Deputy Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment
Associate Professor of Earth System Science
Marshall's research focuses on social and economic impacts of environmental change, and on the economics of rural development in Africa.
Rosamond L. Naylor
Founding Director '05-'18 and Senior Fellow, Center on Food Security and the Environment
William Wrigley Professor of Earth Systems Science, Professor (by courtesy) in Economics
Roz's research focuses on economic and biophysical dimensions of food security and environmental impacts of crop and animal production.
Walter P. Falcon
Helen Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy, Economics (Emeritus)
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Wally's research focuses on biotechnology, food security and food and agricultural policy in developing countries.