Center on Food Security and the Environment
Many of FSE’s distinguished faculty are available for commentary, interview, or to provide background information on a wide range of issues pertaining to global agriculture, hunger, poverty, and the environment.
Please direct media inquiries to Ari Chasnoff, FSI Associate Director for Communications.
Productive food systems and their environmental consequences are at the core of the program. With roughly 1 billion hungry people in the world, three-quarters of which live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, improving agricultural productivity will be central to any effort at alleviating hunger. At the same time, agriculture is one of the largest contributors to global environmental degradation, including land use change and associated ecosystem loss, air and water pollution, and contribution to global climate change. Research at FSE seeks to generate solutions that address these problems simultaneously, shedding light on how to feed the world without destroying the environment in the process.
The Center on Food Security and the Environment is a joint effort of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
The Center on Food Security and the Environment spans the international and environmental initiatives at Stanford and integrates faculty across the fields of agricultural and development economics, political science, biological science, medicine, hydrology, climate science, remote sensing and geographic information systems, agronomy, and risk assessment.
The Center on Food Security and the Environment spans the international and environmental initiatives at Stanford and integrates faculty across the fields of agricultural and development economics, political science, biological science, medicine, hydrology, climate science, remote sensing and geographic information systems, agronomy, and risk assessment.
