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David Lobell and Marshall Burke Talk Food Security, Human Health and the Importance of Mitigation
September 2018
When it comes to food security, health and poverty, the impacts of climate change already are evident.
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.
India’s groundwater future is at stake
May 2017
Since the 1960s, India’s groundwater irrigation has increased dramatically, playing an important role in its economy and people’s lives — supporting livelihoods of over 26 crore farmers and...
Rolling Through Iowa
September 2015
It is the end of summer and time for another Iowa report. My wife and I own a medium-sized farm in East Central Iowa that produces corn and soybeans, and beef from a cow/calf herd.
The environmental impacts of marijuana in California
July 2015
In a new study in the journal BioScience, a team of researchers including Stanford professor Roz Naylor links marijuana cultivation to widespread environmental damage in California and calls for...
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.
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...
Child health in Kenya improves with access to clean water
December 2013
Children in rural Kenya are more susceptible to disease and death the farther away they live from clean drinking water, according to Stanford researchers.
Smallholder irrigation a development priority in sub-Saharan Africa
July 2013
FSE study finds smallholder irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa has great potential to reduce hunger, raise incomes, and improve development prospects.
Stuck in the mud: Stanford’s scholarly farmer on the soggy fortunes of Midwest growers
July 2013
FSE deputy director Walter Falcon shares field notes from his farm in Iowa a year after the region experienced its worst drought in decades.
Bringing a green and blue revolution to Africa
May 2013
Food and water security in sub-Saharan Africa remain a challenge despite the region’s abundance of arable land and untapped water resources.
Water and agriculture in a changing Africa: What might be done?
May 2013
Join us for our final Global Food Policy and Food Security symposium Thursday, May 23.
Scott Rozelle on How Agriculture Vitalized China's Economy
April 2013
Over the last thirty years, China’s rural income per capita has risen an astounding 20 times.
Corn getting thirstier with climate change
March 2013
A new study led by FSE associate director David Lobell finds water stress may be the main culprit behind diminishing crop yields at higher temperatures.
Stanford scientists help shed light on key component of China's pollution problem
February 2013
A new study co-authored by FSE affiliated faculty Peter Vitousek reveals, among other findings, that amounts of nitrogen deposited on land and water in China by way of rain, dust and other carriers...
Benin solar market garden project one of five most hopeful energy projects of 2012
January 2013
FSE's Benin solar market garden project was picked as one of the most five hopeful energy stories of 2012 by National Geographic.
Finding common threads in global water crises
October 2012
What does drought in Kansas have to do with underutilized groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa?
There is no food security without health and nutrition
October 2012
Expanding food production and even alleviating poverty does not guarantee food security, health and nutrition.
Climate change pushing California farmers to new limits
September 2012
Rising temperatures, an uncertain water supply and more abundant pests threaten California's multi-billion-dollar crop industry.
Sustainable agriculture and feeding 9 billion people - an interview with Pam Matson
September 2012
Pamela Matson, Dean of the School of Earth Sciences and FSE researcher, discusses agricultural research in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico and how it relates to the Green Revolution with Stanford's...
Jennifer Burney named National Geographic Explorer of the Week
September 2012
In a Q&A with National Geographic FSE fellow Jennifer Burney talks about her continued work on solar irrigation gardens in Benin, West Africa, and other insights into the spirited personality...
Climate change adaptation: Lessons from 2012
September 2012
The Chicago Council's Global Agricultural Development Initiative hosted a series of comments on the drought, including one from FSE Associate Director and environmental earth system scientist David...
Authors, NGOs, and scientists to talk population
May 2012
Roz Naylor, director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, will join authors, activists, and scientists for a daylong symposium on population at the Moving Mountains Symposium in...
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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 
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 
Steven Gorelick Cyrus F. Tolman Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
