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
Agriculture and Global Change
December 1999
Earth Systems: Processes and Issues is the ideal textbook for introductory courses in earth systems science and environmental science.
Energy and Resource Constraints on Intensive Agricultural Production
October 1996
This review explores the potential energy, soil, and water constraints on highly productive agricultural systems.
Other Publications
Climate Change and China's Agricultural Sector: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation
May 2010
Although China and the United States are the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, China’s emissions on a per capita basis are significantly lower than those of the U.S.: in 2005, per capita...
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....
News
Climate change a threat to Indonesian agriculture, PNAS study says
May 2007
A new study published May 8th in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that Indonesian rice agriculture is greatly affected by short-run climate variability, and could be...
At climate symposium, Kennedy posits global warming as most serious worldwide threat
June 2004
Speaking at a June 24 joint conference sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, CESP senior fellow Donald Kennedy warned of the pressing need to address...
Cohen's 10-week Google.org course on poverty and development now available on YouTube
March 2008
Full video of the Google.org course on poverty and development that Program on Global Justice Director Joshua Cohen moderated from September to November 2007 is now available online at YouTube.com....
Old Events
Global Transfer of Virtual Water and Nutrients Related to Industrialized Animal Production Systems
March 8, 2005
The global trade in grain and meat between nations is extensive and is projected to grow considerably in the short term.
Linkages between food systems and human health in Africa
October 11, 2012
Pinstrup-Andersen, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy and J.
Projects
Deadly Connections: Climate, Disease, Poverty and Conflict
Violent conflicts claim 3,000 lives per day through wars, bombings and attacks that dominate the news media.
English
Climate and Agriculture: Models, Impacts, and Adaptation Strategies
There is little disagreement now that the climate is changing, and that such changes could fundamentally affect humanity's collective ability to feed itself.
English
Integrated Studies of Sustainability: Land-Water systems of the Yaqui Basin
The Yaqui Valley, in Sonora, Mexico is a region of rapid demographic, economic, and ecological change in both upland and coastal areas.
English
Multimedia
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...
Benin solar market gardens: video gallery
March 2012
This video gallery features the success story of a women's farming group in Nothern Benin who through the adoption of solar-powered irrigation pumps increased household income and nutritional intake in just one year.
Interview with Quentin Grafton
March 2018
Quentin Grafton, Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, visited FSE to speak about "Insights from the Global Food and Water Nexus." He sat...
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 
Steven Gorelick Cyrus F. Tolman Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
