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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Contribution of historical precipitation change to US flood damages
January 2021
Precipitation extremes have increased in many regions of the United States, suggesting that climate change may be exacerbating the cost of flooding.
The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States
January 2021
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated.
Changes in the drought sensitivity of US maize yields
November 2020
As climate change leads to increased frequency and severity of drought in many agricultural regions, a prominent adaptation goal is to reduce the drought sensitivity of crop yields.
High-Resolution Soybean Yield Mapping Across the US Midwest Using Subfield Harvester Data
October 2020
Cloud computing and freely available, high-resolution satellite data have enabled recent progress in crop yield mapping at fine scales.
Mapping Crop Types in Southeast India with Smartphone Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning
September 2020
High resolution satellite imagery and modern machine learning methods hold the potential to fill existing data gaps in where crops are grown around the world at a sub-field level.
Water-food-energy challenges in India: political economy of the sugar industry
July 2020
Sugar is the second largest agro-based industry in India and has a major influence on the country's water, food, and energy security.
Fight fire with finance: a randomize field experiment to curtail land-clearing fire in Indonesia
July 2020
This paper presents one of the rst randomized evaluations of collective pay-for-performance payments for ecosystem services.
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office
June 2020
We study a program that funded 39,000 Jewish households in New York City to leave enclave neighborhoods circa 1910.
The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the US
June 2020
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from fire might be mitigated.
Dust pollution from the Sahara and African infant mortality
June 2020
Estimation of pollution impacts on health is critical for guiding policy to improve health outcomes.
Impacts of Chilean forest subsidies on forest cover, carbon and biodiversity
June 2020
In response to the important benefits forests provide, there is a growing effort to reforest the world.
Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California
June 2020
Research has consistently identified firearm availability as a risk factor for suicide.
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.
Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms
April 2020
Marshall Burke and fellow researchers study productivity in smallholder farms to understand variation across the adbundant but understudied firms.
Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California
March 2020
California has experienced devastating autumn wildfires in recent years.
Verification of extreme event attribution: Using out-of-sample observations to assess changes in probabilities of unprecedented events
March 2020
Independent verification of anthropogenic influence on specific extreme climate events remains elusive. This study presents a framework for such verification.
Does Information About Climate Risk Affect Property Values?
February 2020
Floods and other climate hazards pose a widespread and growing threat to housing and infrastructure around the world.
On the role of anthropogenic climate change in the emerging food crisis in southern Africa in the 2019–2020 growing season
February 2020
Researchers including David Lobell analyze how human-caused climate change has impacted a water defecit in Southern Africa and might contribute to a rising food security crisis in the region.
Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for Segmentation of Remote Sensing Imagery
January 2020
Accurate automated segmentation of remote sensing data could benefit applications from land cover mapping and agricultural monitoring to urban development surveyal and disaster damage assessment....
The downstream air pollution impacts of the transition from coal to natural gas in the United States
January 2020
The recent shift in the United States from coal to natural gas as a primary feedstock for the production of electric power has reduced the intensity of sectoral carbon dioxide emissions, but—due to...
Sight for Sorghums: Comparisons of Satellite- and Ground-Based Sorghum Yield Estimates in Mali
December 2019
The advent of multiple satellite systems capable of resolving smallholder agricultural plots raises possibilities for significant advances in measuring and understanding agricultural productivity...
Flood Size Increases Nonlinearly Across the Western United States in Response to Lower Snow‐Precipitation Ratios
December 2019
Many mountainous and high‐latitude regions have experienced more precipitation as rain rather than snow due to warmer winter temperatures.
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 
Noah Diffenbaugh Kara J. Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment 
Steven Gorelick Cyrus F. Tolman Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for 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 
Stefano Ermon Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
Sam Heft-Neal Research Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford Department of Earth System Science 
