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.
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Scholarly Publications
Climate Change and Global Health: Quantifying a Growing Ethical Crisis
November 2007
Climate change, as an environmental hazard operating at the global scale, poses a unique and "involuntary exposure" to many societies, and therefore represents possibly the largest health inequity...
Other Publications
Marine Aquaculture in the United States: Environmental impacts and policy options
December 2001
Global aquaculture production is growing rapidly, with production more than doubling in weight and by value from 1989 to 1998.
News
Expert says Obama's food aid reform has good ideas, bad chance for passage
April 2013
FSE visiting fellow and food aid expert Barry Riley comments on the importance of the President's new food aid reforms, chances of passage, and the US's current role in international food aid.
Five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney
October 2012
With the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney set to focus on foreign policy, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute ask the questions they want answered and...
US farmers dodge the impacts of global warming--at least for now
May 2011
The United States seems to have been lucky so far in largely escaping the impact of global warming on crop production.
- Climate Trends and Global Crop Production Since 1980
- Science magazine podcast interview
- New York Times article
- Economist article
- Washington Post article
- Science News article
- Nature article
- Stanford Report article
- San Francisco Chronicle article
- Wired article
- New Scientist article
- Science Odyssey radio interview
- New York Times article: A Warming Planet Struggles to Feed Itself
- New York Times blog: Reverend Malthus and the Future of Food
- Vancouver Sun: Food costs put pressure on a global economy
- Businessweek/Bloomberg: A Hotter Planet Doesn't Have to be Hungrier
- NPR: World's Farmers Feel the Effects of a Hotter Planet