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.
Disease
Scholarly Publications
Habitat fragmentation, livelihood behaviors, and contact between people and nonhuman primates in Africa
April 2020
Deforestation and landscape fragmentation have been identified as processes enabling direct transmission of zoonotic infections.
Monitoring Ethiopian Wheat Fungus with Satellite Imagery and Deep Feature Learning
August 2017
Wheat is the most important Ethiopian crop, and rust one of its greatest antagonists.
Income Shocks and HIV in Africa
June 2015
We examine how variation in local economic conditions has shaped the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
News
COVID-19 Could Exacerbate Food Insecurity Around the World, Stanford Expert Warns
May 2020
COVID-19 and other looming threats could make it much harder for people to access food. David Lobell, director of Stanford’s Center on Food Security and the Environment, outlines likely scenarios and...
David Lobell and Marshall Burke Talk Food Security, Human Health and the Importance of Mitigation
September 2018
When it comes to food security, health and poverty, the impacts of climate change already are evident.
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.
Projects
Rural Health & Development at the Food-Water Nexus
More than two-thirds of the population in Africa must leave their home to fetch water for drinking and domestic use.
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Rethinking the Balance Between Future Obesity and Malnutrition with Climate Change
As India's middle class has expanded, the nation's public health concerns have shifted. Obesity rates have risen, coinciding with a surge in diabetes.
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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.
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