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.
Energy Infrastructure
Scholarly Publications
Colocation opportunities for large solar infrastructures and agriculture in drylands
March 2016
We explored the potential to colocate solar installations and agriculture.Water use at solar installations are similar to amounts required for desert plants.Co-located systems are economically...
Impact of a rural solar electrification project on the level and structure of women's empowerment
September 2017
Although development organizations agree that reliable access to energy and energy services—one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals—is likely to have profound and perhaps disproportionate...
News
Blowin' in the wind: Dispatches from the Iowa farm
September 2014
It is August again, and my wife and I are back on our farm.