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Stanford economist and others assess aquaculture’s promise and peril
How to Keep the Next Generation of Farmers in Business
Not many people go into farming to get rich. Low commodity prices, high operational costs and limited profit opportunities cloud the outlook. William Wrigley Professor and FSE Founding Director ROSAMOND NAYLOR gave a keynote presentation on the path toward a more profitable future at an agricultural symposium hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
The environmental impacts of marijuana in California
In a new study in the journal BioScience, a team of researchers including Stanford professor Roz Naylor links marijuana cultivation to widespread environmental damage in California and calls for greater regulation of the crop’s impact on natural ecosystems.
FSE director Roz Naylor to give Ned Ames Honorary Lecture
FSE director Roz Naylor has been selected to deliver the 6th annual Ned Ames Honorary Lecture at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY on Friday, April 24. Her lecture on "Feeding the World in the 21st Century," is free and open to the public, and a video recording of the event will be available on the Cary Institute's website shortly after the talk.
Chinese aquaculture can tip the balance in world fish supplies
China's booming aquaculture industry relies increasingly on fishmeal made from wild-caught fish. This practice risks depleting wild fish stocks and strains fragile ocean ecosystems, but a new FSE-led study offers a more sustainable path.
Roz Naylor named William Wrigley Professor in Earth Science
Rosamond (Roz) Naylor has been named the first holder of the new William Wrigley Professorship in the School of Earth Sciences. Since 2006 Naylor has directed the Center on Food Security and the Environment, within the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. She is also associate professor, by courtesy, of Economics at Stanford.
FSE in Rome to discuss food security with UN agencies
Naylor in Spain with the Advisory Committee of the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation
Program on Food Security and the Environment to build a global education network on agriculture and the environment
Aquaculture made safe
Ensuring a sustainable future for U.S. ocean fish farming
Balancing act in global fertilizer use: Science report
FSI and Woods Institute announce William Wrigley Senior Fellowship
New Program on Food Security and the Environment Tackles Global Hunger and Environmental Destruction