Food and Nutrition Policy Symposium Series

The Food and Nutrition Policy Symposium Series brings leading experts to Stanford to share new research in an integrated, ten-lecture series on global food and nutrition policy. The series follows on the success of the two-year Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series that concluded in May 2013. Participants address food security topics ranging from aquaculture, to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, to crop genetics and protecting the global food supply from the future impacts of climate change. We thank Zach Nelson and Elizabeth Horn for their generous support of the symposium series, in honor of Phillip Falcon.

Tomorrow’s Table: Ecologically-based Farming, Plant Genetics and the Future of Food

Pamela Ronald is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. She is Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute in Emeryville and Biologist Scientist Faculty, Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She serves as founding Director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy at UC Davis. She participated in the FSE Food and Nutrition Policy Symposium Series on January 18, 2017.

Has the Food Price Bubble Burst?

Thomas Hertel is Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, where his research focuses on the global impacts of trade, climate and environmental policies. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Purdue University Research and Scholarship Distinction Award. Professor Hertel is a former Cargill Visiting Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford.

Johan Swinnen is President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, a Fellow of the AAEA (Association of (the US) Agricultural and Applied Economists ); a Fellow of the ERAE (European Association of Agricultural Economists). He is also President of The Beeronomics Society. He holds a Ph.D from Cornell University and a Honorary Doctorate from the Slovak Agricultural University. He is currently a visiting Professor at the Center on Food Security and the Environment.