FSE Data Science for Food Security
Poverty
Developing and testing remote-sensing based approaches to gather aid-relevant data on household assets, focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Crop Yields
Using high-resolution satellite imagery with household survey data to develop algorithms and measure crop yields to improve productivity and eventually reduce hunger.
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World Health
Using data and spatial analysis to atribute local-level factors to health and child mortality.
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Lead Researchers
Marshall Burke
FSE Deputy Director
Assistant Professor, Earth System Science
Marshall Burke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth System Science and Deputy Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University, and Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on social and economic impacts of environmental change, and on the economics of rural development in Africa.
David Lobell
FSE Director
Professor, Earth System Science
David Lobell is a Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Earth System Science and Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment. He is the William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His research focuses on agriculture and food security, specifically on generating and using unique datasets to study rural areas worldwide.
