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.
Deforestation
Scholarly Publications
The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution: Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests
November 2016
Over the last two decades global production of soybean and palm oil seeds have increased enormously.
Land institutions and supply chain configurations as determinants of soybean planted area and yields in Brazil
October 2012
Soybean production has become a significant force for economic development in Brazil.
News
Tropical Oil Crops - a More Sustainable Future?
February 2017
An interview with authors of the “The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution” predicts the future of soy and palm oil booms by examining the past and present.
Joann de Zegher selected as SAWIT Challenge Finalist
November 2016
FSE is excited to announce that graduate student, Joann de Zegher, is one of the nine innovators chosen in the SAWIT Challenge to pitch her solution to help independent smallholder farmers produce...
Roz Naylor gives opening talk at Global Food Security Conference
October 2015
FSE director Roz Naylor will give the opening plenary lecture at the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security on October 12, 2015 at Cornell University.
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.
Projects
Oil palm development in Indonesia: Demand, trade, and land use
Indonesia is currently the world’s top palm oil producer.
English
Evolving US Energy Policies: Promise or peril for tropical conservation
Tropical forests store more than 340 billion tons of carbon, which is 40 times the total current worldwide annual fossil fuel emissions.
English
Biofuels and Food Security in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa: Pathways of impacts and assessments of investments
Biofuel development contributes most effectively to rural income growth when you can have vertical integration. People all along the value chain have to be making money.
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, Professor, by courtesy, Economics, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and 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 