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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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...
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.
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...
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...
Climate change and agricultural adaptation
December 8, 2011
What should food policy experts understand about future climate and how it will affect food security? What don't we know?
Climate Variability, Rice Production, and Food Policy in Indonesia
June 16, 2011
Roz Naylor will be lecturing on climate variability, rice production, and food policy in Indonesia as part of Brown University's conference on Climate Change and its Impacts.
Assisting the Escape from Persistent Ultra-Poverty in Rural Africa
April 27, 2011
Christopher Barrett reviews the evidence on persistent poverty with a focus on rural Africa.
Why Has Africa Been Slow in Developing its Agriculture?
April 7, 2011
This talk will focus on the investment and policy strategies needed for a dynamic agricultural sector, and how conditions in Africa differ from those in Asia.
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