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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FSI scholars approach their research on the environment from regulatory, economic and societal angles. The Center on Food Security and the Environment weighs the connection between climate change and agriculture; the impact of biofuel expansion on land and food supply; how to increase crop yields without expanding agricultural lands; and the trends in aquaculture. FSE’s research spans the globe – from the potential of smallholder irrigation to reduce hunger and improve development in sub-Saharan Africa to the devastation of drought on Iowa farms. David Lobell, a senior fellow at FSI and a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, has looked at the impacts of increasing wheat and corn crops in Africa, South Asia, Mexico and the United States; and has studied the effects of extreme heat on the world’s staple crops.
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Roz Naylor discusses Oceans and Food Security at Hopkins Marine Station
April 2, 2019
Massive changes in the global food sector over the next few decades – driven by climate change and other environmental stresses, growing population and income, advances in technology, and shifts in...
Connecting the Dots 2015: The Food, Energy, Water and Climate Nexus
April 17, 2015
For more information and to register, visit tomkat.stanford.edu/ctd.Each year Stanford experts from a range of disciplines meet to discuss the interconnections and interactions among humanity's...
Earth Matters: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
October 2, 2014
Meeting the world’s need for food in the 21st century presents unprecedented challenges and opportunities.
Fisheries and Food Security in China - 2014 Symposium
May 13, 2014
From May 13-15, the Center on Food Security and the Environment and the Lenfest Ocean Program welcomed leading Chinese and international scientists to the Stanford Center at Peking University in...
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?
E-IPER Dissertation Defense: Rachael Garrett
June 5, 2013
Interactions between global supply chains, land use, and governance: the case of soybean production in South America Rapid growth in global soybean demand has had a profound impact on land cover in...
Water and agriculture in a changing Africa: What might be done?
May 23, 2013
Effective water management is one key element of agricultural innovation and growth.
Connecting the Dots 2013: The Energy, Food, Water, and Climate Nexus
April 19, 2013
Stanford experts from a range of disciplines will discuss the interconnections and interactions among humanity’s need for and use of energy, food, water, and environmental resources.
China and Africa: Are there Lessons for Development?
April 17, 2013
The lost decades for China in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s look remarkably like the lost decades of Africa in the 1980s and 1990s.
What works for climate adaptation? Testing and targeting strategies in crop development
April 10, 2013
This talk is part of Stanford's Environmental Earth System Science seminar series.
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.
How can trade improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa?
January 23, 2013
For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries, including in sub-Saharan Africa, have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of...
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.
Impacts of climate change on agriculture and opportunities for detection and attribution
May 28, 2012
Presentation given by FSE fellow David Lobell at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) "Frontiers in the Detection and Attribution of Climate Change" workshop May 28, 2012.
Moving Mountains Symposium
May 25, 2012
During a daylong symposium speakers that range from scientists to authors and activists will touch on subjects like water tables, food security, women's education, immigration, and human longevity...
Structural Change and the Future of Indian Agriculture
May 10, 2012
Binswanger-Mkhize's talk will look at past and likely future agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction in the context of the overall economy of India, in which growth has accelerated sharply...
Connecting the Dots: The water, food, energy and climate nexus
April 16, 2012
Connecting the Dots conference website Stanford experts from a range of disciplines discuss the interconnections and interactions among humanity's needs for and use of water, food, energy, and...
Biofuels: The changing nature of agricultural demand
April 11, 2012
Policies promoting ethanol and biodiesel production and use in the U.S., Europe, and other parts of the world since the mid-2000s have had profound—and largely unintended—consequences on global...
12th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment: Environment & Security
January 18, 2012
FSE director Roz Naylor will be a plenary speaker at the National Council for Science and Education's 12th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment: Environment & Security.
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?
People
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 
