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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Innovation Needed to Meet Global Food Security Challenges
January 30, 2020
Join us for a talk with agricultural and development economist Christopher B. Barrett, this quarter’s visiting scholar with the Center on Food Security and the Environment.
Global Food Security Symposium Series | India's Transition: Was Coleridge Right?
November 8, 2019
...water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink...Join Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment for a lecture and reception with Dr.
A Conversation with David Beasley: Challenges of 21st Century Humanitarian Response
September 10, 2019
Please join us for a conversation with United Nations World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley, who will discuss "Challenges of 21st Century Humanitarian Response." The conversation...
Fighting to End Hunger at Home & Abroad: Ambassador Ertharin Cousin shares her journey & lessons learned
May 22, 2019
Fighting to End Hunger at Home & Abroad: Ambassador Ertharin Cousin shares her journey & lessons learnedA Conversation in Global Health with Ertharin CousinFSI Payne Distinguished Lecturer...
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...
Center on Global Poverty and Development Speaker Series - Adaptation to Climate Change: What Do the Data Say?
March 29, 2019
RSVPOn April 16, Solomon Hsiang, the Chancellor's Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Center's Noosheen Hashemi Visiting Scholar, will lead a...
Special Screening of Documentary Film 'FOOD EVOLUTION'
March 16, 2018
Please join us for a special screening of 'FOOD EVOLUTION' with a panel discussion where the film's director Scott Hamilton Kennedy and Stanford experts in the field of food security will discuss...
Can changes in climate cause conflict?
January 24, 2017
Abstract: A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that changes in climate are associated with increases in human violence. I review new and recent evidence on this topic, using data ranging...
Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Palm Oil Production – Research in Progress
September 27, 2016
The Global Development and Poverty Initiative Seminar Series kicks off the 2016 school year with a presentation of one of its most exciting and timely capacity-building projects, "Poverty...
Film Screening: "Seeds of Time" with Dr. Cary Fowler
April 20, 2016
Join us for a free screening of "Seeds of Time: One man's journey to save the future of our food" from Academy Award nominated director Sandy McLeod.Synposis:A perfect storm is brewing as...
Everything that Can Go Wrong in a Field Experiment (round 2)
February 19, 2016
The Global Development and Poverty Initiative (GDP) seminar series returns with a reprise of its most popular seminar last year.
The Role of SNAP in the U.S. Social Safety Net: Assessing effects on poverty, food insecurity and health
January 21, 2016
More than 46 million Americans live in poverty and high rates of food insecurity and obesity are also a persistent concern.
Achieving food security and nutrition for the furthest behind in an era of conflict and climate change
November 20, 2015
Ertharin Cousin began her tenure as the twelfth Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on 5 April 2012.Cousin brings more than twenty-five years of national and...
Technology Adoption in African Agriculture
November 4, 2015
Yields of cereal crops have more than doubled globally since 1960, yet agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa has remained stagnant. Why has the Green Revolution passed Africa by?
Doomsday Vaults, Genebanks and Plant Breeding in the Age of Climate Change
May 6, 2015
Read a full event summary here. Agricultural crops are on the front lines of climate change. Can we expect increased food production in the context of global warming?
The United States and Global Food Security: A View From Rome
April 29, 2015
Ambassador David Lane was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and confirmed by the U.S.
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...
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, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment 
Noah Diffenbaugh Kara J. Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
Steven Gorelick Cyrus F. Tolman Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
Stefano Ermon Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
Matthieu Stigler Postdoctoral Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Department of Earth System Science 
Jillian Deines Postdoctoral Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Department of Earth System Science 
A. Patrick Behrer Postdoctoral Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Department of Earth System Science