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.
Poverty
Scholarly Publications
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...
Mapping Smallholder Yield Heterogeneity at Multiple Scales in Eastern Africa
September 2017
Accurate measurements of crop production in smallholder farming systems are critical to the understanding of yield constraints and, thus, setting the appropriate agronomic investments and policies...
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.
Other Publications
Data Science for Food Security
August 2017
Using agricultural and economic characteristics in African nations as test cases, new research by David Lobell and Marshall Burke demonstrates the use of satellite data to address the long-standing...
The Global Economic Impacts of Climate Change
November 2015
This research brief is based on a paper from the journal Nature, published on-line on October 21, 2015, entitled “Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production.” The paper, led by...
News
Stanford scientists combine satellite data, machine learning to map poverty
August 2016
One of the biggest challenges in providing relief to people living in poverty is locating them.
What will climate change cost?
October 2015
When thousands of scientists, economists and policymakers meet in Paris this December to negotiate an international climate treaty, one question will dominate conversations: what is the climate...
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
Has the Food Price Bubble Burst?
April 29, 2014
A reception in the lobby of Encina Hall will follow the event. Bursting the Bubble: A Long Run Perspective What are the long run drivers of global food prices?
Africa's Food Systems in 2030
February 5, 2013
Paul Collier will talk about how to manage the difference between helpful and damaging commercialisation, and puts forth three arguments.
Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture: Toward the identification of appropriate rural development strategies
January 12, 2012
Thom Jayne, Professor of International Development from Michigan State University will answer the following questions: What are the trends in land access?
Projects
Remote sensing approaches to improving aid targeting and understanding aid effectiveness
This project aims to develop and test remote-sensing based approaches to gathering two typesof aid-relevant data: data on agricultural productivity and data on household assets, with a focus on Sub...
English
Climate and Global Poverty
Growing knowledge that the climate is changing has far outpaced our knowledge of how these changes might impact economic outcomes that we care about. Does climate change constitute one of the most...
English
Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Palm Oil Production
This project focuses on private and public sector strategies for promoting sustainable palm oil, with sustainability defined by environmental, social, and economic objectives.
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...
People
David Lobell Senior Fellow Professor, Earth System Science, William Wrigley Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
Sam Heft-Neal Research scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford Department of Earth System Science Research scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment 
Zhenong Jin Postdoctoral scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford Department of Earth System Science 