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.
Climate change
Scholarly Publications
Historical warming has increased U.S. crop insurance losses
Quantification of the sector-specific financial impacts of historical global warming represents a critical gap in climate change impacts assessment. The multiple decades of county-level data...
Contribution of historical precipitation change to US flood damages
January 2021
Precipitation extremes have increased in many regions of the United States, suggesting that climate change may be exacerbating the cost of flooding.
Other Publications
The Global Economic Impacts of Climate Change
November 2015
This research brief is based on a paper from the journal Nature, published on-line on October 21, 2015, entitled “Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production.” The paper, led by...
Climate Change Impact on Agriculture: Implications for Food Security and Hunger
June 2015
David Lobell’s recent research indicates that negative impacts to the global agriculture system are much more likely, more severe and wider-ranging in the face of human-caused climate change....
Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis
November 2012
SummaryClimate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events-slowly at first, but then more quickly.
News
Wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy increases preterm birth risk, Stanford study finds
August 2021
Smoke from wildfires may have contributed to thousands of additional premature births in California between 2007 and 2012. The findings underscore the value of reducing the risk of big, extreme...
Stanford explainer: Social cost of carbon
June 2021
In a Q&A, Stanford economists discuss the importance of this number and its role in creating environmental policies.
Effects of Climate Change on Suicide Rates
March 2019
As global temperatures rise, climate change’s impacts on mental health are becoming increasingly evident.
Events
Can changes in climate cause conflict?
January 24, 2017
Abstract: A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that changes in climate are associated with increases in human violence. I review new and recent evidence on this topic, using data ranging...
Film Screening: "Seeds of Time" with Dr. Cary Fowler
April 20, 2016
Join us for a free screening of "Seeds of Time: One man's journey to save the future of our food" from Academy Award nominated director Sandy McLeod.Synposis:A perfect storm is brewing as...
Projects
Climate and Global Poverty
Growing knowledge that the climate is changing has far outpaced our knowledge of how these changes might impact economic outcomes that we care about. Does climate change constitute one of the most...
English
Interdisciplinary Research on Introducing Heat-Tolerant Wheat to Bolster Food Security
The project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions...
English
Multimedia
Housing markets don't efficiently factor in flood risk, researchers find
April 2021
As the climate changes, more frequent and intense flooding is a threat that many Americans face. In a new study, Stanford researchers explored whether US housing markets respond efficiently to information about flood risk.
Researchers find corn yields becoming more sensitive to drought
October 2020
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of droughts in many agricultural regions.
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...
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, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment 
Noah Diffenbaugh Kara J. Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
A. Patrick Behrer Postdoctoral Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Department of Earth System Science 
