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.
Biofuels
Scholarly Publications
Our Daily Bread: Without public investment, the food crisis will only get worse
September 2008
During the eighteen months after January 2007, cereal prices doubled, setting off a world food crisis. In the United States, rising food prices have been a pocketbook annoyance.
Project Timeline: Program for the Study of Biofuels, Poverty and Food Security
February 2007
A concept note about setting up an international program for studying the effects of the emergence of biofuels on global poverty and food security. The recent global expansion of biofuels...
The Ripple Effect: Biofuels, Food Security, and the Environment
November 2007
The integration of the agricultural and energy sectors caused by rapid growth in the biofuels market signals a new era in food policy and sustainable development.
Other Publications
Convergence of Energy and Agriculture: Implications for Research and Policy
November 2006
Access to an adequate energy supply at reasonable cost is crucial for sustained economic growth.
News
Stanford-Cargill partnership strengthens to address food security issues
November 2011
Stanford’s Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) has received a $2 million grant from Cargill, a second gift from the company that raises its total contribution to FSE to $5 million...
FSE and colleagues awarded $1.2 million for study of climate and biofuels production
January 2008
Researchers at FSE and the Carnegie Institute at Stanford have been awarded $1.2 million by Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) for the study of the effect of biofuels expansion on...
New Program on Food Security and the Environment Tackles Global Hunger and Environmental Destruction
March 2006
This past autumn the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) in conjunction with the Woods Institute for the Environment launched a program on Food Security and the Environment ...
Events
Biofuels: The changing nature of agricultural demand
April 11, 2012
Policies promoting ethanol and biodiesel production and use in the U.S., Europe, and other parts of the world since the mid-2000s have had profound—and largely unintended—consequences on global...
Earth Matters: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
October 2, 2014
Meeting the world’s need for food in the 21st century presents unprecedented challenges and opportunities.
Projects
Global Education Network on Food Policy, Food Security, and the Environment
Providing food security for a world that will be warmer, more populous, and continually developing requires the implementation of sound policies that enhance food and agricultural consumption,...
English
Globalization, Trade, and the Environment: The case of Brazil
Soybean production has become a significant force for economic development in Brazil, but has come at the cost of expansion into non-protected forests in the Amazon and native savanna in the...
English
Biomass Energy: The climate protective domain
Biomass energy sources are among the most promising, most hyped, and most heavily subsidized future energy sources.
English
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