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Stuck in the mud: Stanford’s scholarly farmer on the soggy fortunes of Midwest growers
News / July 16, 2013
FSE deputy director Walter Falcon shares field notes from his farm in Iowa a year after the region experienced its worst drought in decades. Now farmers are recovering from the wettest spring on record, eclipsing the 1892 record. "The riskiness of farming is something to see in real time; it is also very instructive to listen as farmers talk about coping with uncertainty," writes Falcon.
Field notes from an Iowa farm
News / August 8, 2012
The American Midwest is suffering through the driest summer in decades, and Stanford economist Walter Falcon is watching the corn wither in his fields. He writes how the drought is affecting crops, prices and the livelihoods of his fellow farmers in Iowa.
Program on Food Security and the Environment to build a global education network on agriculture and the environment
News / July 29, 2010
Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FSI's program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) will begin in winter 2011 a twelve lecture series bringing the world's leading policy experts in the fields of food and agricultural development to the Stanford University campus to participate in an integrated seminar series on pro-poor growth and food security policy.
McGill University bestows honorary degree on Walter Falcon for exemplary scholarship
News / May 20, 2009
Professor Walter Falcon, Deputy Director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment, former director of FSI, and Helen Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy, Emeritus has been recognized with an honorary degree from McGill University for his research aimed at reducing world hunger and enhancing global food security.
New Program on Food Security and the Environment Tackles Global Hunger and Environmental Destruction
News / March 8, 2006
This past autumn the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) in conjunction with the Woods Institute for the Environment launched a program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) to address the deficit in academia and, on a larger scale, the global dialogue surrounding the critical issues of food security, poverty, and environmental degradation.
Walter Falcon featured in the world hunger documentary ''Silent Killer: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger''
News / October 13, 2005
The film, hosted by NPR's Scott Simon, offers a compelling examination of both the problem and solutions surrounding world hunger. The program aired on PBS station KQED/San Francisco on Wednesday, November 2nd at 11:00 p.m.