The Center on Food Security and the Environment is a joint effort of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Scholarly Publications
Mapping Crop Types in Southeast India with Smartphone Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning
September 2020
High resolution satellite imagery and modern machine learning methods hold the potential to fill existing data gaps in where crops are grown around the world at a sub-field level.
Water-food-energy challenges in India: political economy of the sugar industry
July 2020
Sugar is the second largest agro-based industry in India and has a major influence on the country's water, food, and energy security.
Fight fire with finance: a randomize field experiment to curtail land-clearing fire in Indonesia
July 2020
This paper presents one of the rst randomized evaluations of collective pay-for-performance payments for ecosystem services.
Other Publications
The Future of Food from the Sea
November 2019
As the global population and people’s incomes rise, the demand for ocean-derived food will continue to grow.
News
U.S. Corn Crop’s Growing Sensitivity to Drought
October 2020
New management approaches and technology have allowed the U.S. Corn Belt to increase yields despite some changes in climate. However, soil sensitivity to drought has increased significantly,...
How Extreme Heat Affects Learning
October 2020
Worsening climate change deepens educational inequities across the United States and around the world, study finds.
Exploring the sustainability of the Indian sugar industry
August 2020
Researchers analyzed the interconnected food, water and energy challenges that arise from the sugar industry in India – the second-largest producer of sugar worldwide – and how the political economy...
Events
Innovation Needed to Meet Global Food Security Challenges
January 30, 2020
Join us for a talk with agricultural and development economist Christopher B. Barrett, this quarter’s visiting scholar with the Center on Food Security and the Environment.
Global Food Security Symposium Series | India's Transition: Was Coleridge Right?
November 8, 2019
...water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink...Join Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment for a lecture and reception with Dr.
A Conversation with David Beasley: Challenges of 21st Century Humanitarian Response
September 10, 2019
Please join us for a conversation with United Nations World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley, who will discuss "Challenges of 21st Century Humanitarian Response." The conversation...
Projects
Global Food Security Symposium Series
The Global Food Security Symposium series brings leading experts in food security areas including agriculture, policy, development, and technology to Stanford to share new research in an integrated...
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Rules and tools for the econometric analysis of geocoded data
The increasing availability of high resolution geocoded data on key outcomes (e.g. incomes) and potential drivers of these outcomes (e.g.
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Remote sensing approaches to improving aid targeting and understanding aid effectiveness
This project aims to develop and test remote-sensing based approaches to gathering two typesof aid-relevant data: data on agricultural productivity and data on household assets, with a focus on Sub...
English
Multimedia
Interview with Chris Barrett
March 2020
Chris Barrett, Professor of Applied Economics and Management and an International Professor of Agriculture with Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, visited FSE and spoke about "Innovation Needed to Meet Global Food Security...
Innovation Needed to Meet Global Food Security Challenges
February 2020
Agricultural and development economist Christopher B.
India's Transition: Was Coleridge Right?
November 2019
Junaid Ahmad, the World Bank Country Director for India, looks at the political economy of managing service delivery in India through the prism of water.
People
Rosamond L. Naylor Senior Fellow William Wrigley Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Professor, by courtesy, Economics, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment 
Noah Diffenbaugh Kara J. Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment 
Steven Gorelick Cyrus F. Tolman Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
Pamela Matson Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, FSE Affiliated Faculty Professor, Earth Sciences, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute 
Stefano Ermon Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
Sam Heft-Neal Research Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford Department of Earth System Science 
