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.
Russia and Eurasia
Scholarly Publications
Model vs. experiment to predict crop losses—Response
December 2018
Our Report draws attention to a complex but understudied issue: How will climate warming alter losses of major food crops to insect pests?
Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate
August 2018
Crop responses to climate warming suggest that yields will decrease as growing-season temperatures increase.
The paradox of irrigation efficiency
August 2018
Reconciling higher freshwater demands with finite freshwater resources remains one of the great policy dilemmas.
Other Publications
News
How More Carbon Dioxide In The Air Could Lead To More Human Disease
July 2018
The rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means that crops are becoming less nutritious, and that change could lead to higher rates of malnutrition that predispose people to various...
New Stanford study suggests climate mitigation could yield trillions in economic benefits
May 2018
Failing to meet climate mitigation goals laid out in the U.N.
Events
Everything that Can Go Wrong in a Field Experiment (round 2)
February 19, 2016
The Global Development and Poverty Initiative (GDP) seminar series returns with a reprise of its most popular seminar last year.
Doomsday Vaults, Genebanks and Plant Breeding in the Age of Climate Change
May 6, 2015
Read a full event summary here. Agricultural crops are on the front lines of climate change. Can we expect increased food production in the context of global warming?
Multimedia
Food Insecurity: A 21st Century Threat to Global Security and Stability
May 2018
Ertharin Cousin, Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Visiting Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, presented her ongoing research on food insecurity as a global threat on...
Ertharin Cousin, Tales from the War on Hunger
February 2018
After the 2007 Global Food Crisis, President Barack Obama in his Inaugural Address committed to the world’s poor nations: “We pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed...
Can Sustainable Intensification Feed the World?
February 2015
Professor Sir Gordon Conway visited Stanford University on February 10, 2015 to discuss the importance of sustainable intensification of agriculture to feed the world in the face of obstacles such as population growth, shifting diets, land and...