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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Food and Nutrition Policy Symposium Series
The Food and Nutrition Policy Symposium Series brings leading experts to Stanford to share new research in an integrated, ten-lecture series on global food and nutrition policy. The series follows...
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Rural Health & Development at the Food-Water Nexus
More than two-thirds of the population in Africa must leave their home to fetch water for drinking and domestic use.
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Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series
*/ FSE's Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium series brought the world's leading policy experts in the fields of food and agricultural development to Stanford to participate in an...
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Rethinking the Balance Between Future Obesity and Malnutrition with Climate Change
As India's middle class has expanded, the nation's public health concerns have shifted. Obesity rates have risen, coinciding with a surge in diabetes.
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Solar Market Gardens as a Tool for Rural Development
In the northern region of Benin, in the Sudano-Sahel region of West Africa, the dry season between rains can last six to nine months at a time.
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Global Education Network on Food Policy, Food Security, and the Environment
Providing food security for a world that will be warmer, more populous, and continually developing requires the implementation of sound policies that enhance food and agricultural consumption,...
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Deadly Connections: Climate, Disease, Poverty and Conflict
Violent conflicts claim 3,000 lives per day through wars, bombings and attacks that dominate the news media.
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An Alternative Development Model: Assessing solar electrification for income generation in rural Benin
Within one year of the project, pilot households saw a $0.69 per capita daily increase in standard of living.
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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, Professor, by courtesy, Economics, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment 
Sam Heft-Neal Research Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford Department of Earth System Science