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COVID-19 Could Exacerbate Food Insecurity Around the World, Stanford Expert Warns
May 2020
COVID-19 and other looming threats could make it much harder for people to access food. David Lobell, director of Stanford’s Center on Food Security and the Environment, outlines likely scenarios and...
The Double-Edged Sword of Palm Oil
January 2019
Nearly ubiquitous in products ranging from cookies to cosmetics, palm oil represents a bedeviling double-edged sword.
Notes from an Iowa Farm: Prices, Politics, and Precipitation
September 2018
These field notes constitute my seventh summer report from our Iowa farm. As readers of prior postings may remember, my wife and I own a medium-sized farm in east-central Iowa that produces corn,...
Feeding Africa and the World in the 21st Century
December 2017
Food security experts from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) gathered to discuss transforming food production in Africa at Stanford on Nov. 29.
Revolutionizing Food Security in Africa
November 2017
Food security experts from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) will gather at Stanford for meetings and a symposium on transforming food production on that continent. R.S.V.P by...
Joann de Zegher selected as SAWIT Challenge Finalist
November 2016
FSE is excited to announce that graduate student, Joann de Zegher, is one of the nine innovators chosen in the SAWIT Challenge to pitch her solution to help independent smallholder farmers produce...
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.
A Global Perspective on Food Policy
October 2015
Read the original post on Medium.com:A Global Perspective on Food PolicyI applaud Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, Ricardo Salvador, and Olivier de Schutter for advocating the introduction of a...
New grant for palm oil research
June 2015
A research team led by FSE director Rosamond Naylor has won a $400,000 multi-year grant to study how to create sustainable palm oil supply chains that promote economic growth and environmental...
FSE director Roz Naylor to give Ned Ames Honorary Lecture
April 2015
FSE director Roz Naylor has been selected to deliver the 6th annual Ned Ames Honorary Lecture at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY on Friday, April 24.
Stanford PhD student wins NSF grant for palm oil research
April 2015
Tannis Thorlakson, a first-year PhD candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) in Stanford's School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Science, has won...
Understanding market participation among Kenyan dairy farmers
March 2015
A new statistical model developed by Stanford researcher Bill Burke helps identify barriers that keep farmers in Kenya from participating in the dairy industry.
Pioneer of sustainable agriculture calls for intensification of farming
February 2015
In a lecture to the Stanford community Tuesday night, Professor Sir Gordon Conway argued that sustainably intensifying agriculture, especially in Africa, is the only way to feed a growing global...
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.
Agricultural climate adaptation can mitigate too
February 2013
Adapting to climate change or mitigating climate change – which would you choose to invest your cash in?
Climate change and China's agricultural sector
August 2010
A new issue brief by Scott Rozelle and fellow researchers Jinxia Wang and Jikun Huang concludes that climate change will have a significant effect on China's crop yields and impact its economy,...
CESP senior fellows receive funding from the Presidential Fund to support the launch of the new program on Food Security and the Environment
February 2006
The project, "Feeding the World in the 21st Century: Exploring the Connections Between Food Production, Health, Environmental Resources and International Security," was one of eight projects to be...
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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 
A. Patrick Behrer Postdoctoral Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Department of Earth System Science 
Matthieu Stigler Postdoctoral Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Department of Earth System Science 
