Rosamond L. Naylor

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Rosamond L. Naylor, PhD

  • Senior Fellow, Emerita, Stanford Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,
  • William Wrigely Professor, Emerita, Department of Environmental Social Sciences
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Biography

Rosamond (Roz) Naylor is the William Wrigley Professor, Emerita, of Global Environmental Policy in the Doerr School of Sustainability; and founding Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford University. Her research focuses on policies and practices to improve global food security and protect the environment on land and at sea. She has been involved in numerous field-level research projects around the world with her students and has published widely on issues related to global food systems, food policy, and aquaculture. She is the co-chair of The Blue Food Assessment, an international initiative aimed at providing a comprehensive scientific evaluation of the sustainability, nutrition, equity, and justice dimensions of aquatic foods cultured and captured in freshwater and marine environments within the global food system. She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), a Pew Marine Fellow, and a Leopold Leadership Fellow. She is also the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Aspen Global Change Institute and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Oceana. At Stanford, she teaches courses on The World Food Economy, Human Society and Environmental Change, and Food and Security.
 

publications

Climate Resilient School Meals

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Climate Resilient School Meals
Working Papers
November 2025

Sustainable and Equitable Increases in Fruit and Vegetable Productivity and Consumption are Needed to Achieve Global Nutrition Security

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Sustainable and Equitable Increases in Fruit and Vegetable Productivity and Consumption are Needed to Achieve Global Nutrition Security
Working Papers
November 2018

Redefining Security Along the Food-Health Nexus: report of a conference and center launch held at Stanford University on November 10, 2011

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Redefining Security Along the Food-Health Nexus: report of a conference and center launch held at Stanford University on November 10, 2011
Working Papers
March 2012

In The News

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4 Key Facts About Climate Change and School Meal Programs

From crop losses to rising food costs, climate change is testing the resilience of school meal programs. Research points to ways to protect children and build a more climate-smart food system.
4 Key Facts About Climate Change and School Meal Programs
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Stanford researchers reimagine the future of food

Dozens of faculty members at Stanford are working to transform the way the world grows, distributes, and consumes food, with research and scholarship spanning topics including sustainable food systems, food security, health equity, culture, and diet.
Stanford researchers reimagine the future of food
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How to design policies that support both aquaculture and small-scale fisheries

Paper examines the benefits and tradeoffs of interactions between aquaculture and small-scale fisheries across 46 case studies.
How to design policies that support both aquaculture and small-scale fisheries