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.
Climate
Recent Scholarly Publications
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Value of Natural Pest Control Services in Agriculture, The
December 1997
Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems.
Amazonia Revealed: Forest Degradation and Loss of Ecosystem Goods and Services in the Amazon Basin
February 2007
The Amazon Basin is one of the world's most important bioregions, harboring a rich array of plant and animal species and offering a wealth of goods and services to society.
Global Consequences of Land Use
July 2005
Land use has generally been considered a local environmental issue, but it is becoming aforce of global importance.
Health Impact Assessment of Global Climate Change: Expanding upon Comparative Risk Assessment Approaches for Policy Making
April 2008
Climate change is projected to have adverse impacts on public health. Cobenefits may be possible from more upstream mitigation of greenhouse gases causing climate change.
Climate Change and Food Security: Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World
December 2010
Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity.
Relative Importance of Soil and Climate Variability for Nitrogen Management in Irrigated Wheat
December 2004
Increased efficiency of nitrogen (N) fertilizer use may be achieved with management practices that account for spatial variability in soil properties and temporal variability in climate.
Using El Nino/Southern Oscillation climate data to improve food policy planning in Indonesia
December 2002
Despite the impact of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events on climate in the Indo-Pacific region, models linking ENSO-based climate variability to Indonesian cereal production are not well...
Globalization of Nitrogen Deposition: Consequences for Terrestial Ecosystems, The
December 2002
The sources and distribution of anthropogenic nitrogen (N), including N fertilization and N fixed during fossil-fuel combustion, are rapidly becoming globally distributed.
Increasing Wildfire in Alaska's Boreal Forest: Pathways to Potential Solutions of a Wicked Problem
June 2008
Recent global environmental and social changes have created a set of "wicked problems" for which there are no optimal solutions.
Using El Nino/Southern Oscillation Climate Data to Predict Rice Production in Indonesia
December 2001
Despite the strong signal of El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events on climate in the Indo-Pacific region, models linking ENSO-based climate variability to seasonal rice production and food...
Method for Quantifying Vulnerability, Applied to the Agricultural System of the Yaqui Valley, Mexico, A
December 2003
We propose measuring vulnerability of selected outcome variables of concern (e.g. agricultural yield) to identified stressors (e.g.
Using forecasts from national and regional El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) models to improve Indonesian food security
November 2003
El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events have a dominate influence on rice output and markets in Southeast Asia.
U.S. Policy and the Global Environment
December 2000
Prior to the 2000 election The Aspen Institute convened a distinguished group of science, business, and environment leaders as a hypothetical committee to advise the new President on global...
Using Climate Models to Improve Indonesian Food Security
December 2004
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events exert significant influence on Southeast Asian rice output and markets.
Impacts of Future Climate Change on California Perennial Crop Yields
December 2006
Most research on the agricultural impacts of climate change has focused on the major annual crops, yet perennial cropping systems are less adaptable and thus potentially more susceptible to damage....
Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior
July 2005
Global society is seriously threatened by the environmental impacts of human activities.
Agriculture Decision-Making in Indonesia with ENSO Variability: Conference poster
September 2005
The combined forces of El NinoSouthern Oscillation (ENSO) eventsand global warming are likely to have dramatic effects on future cropproduction and food security in Indonesia and other tropical...
Analysis of Wheat Yield and Climate Trends in Mexico
December 2005
Wheat yields in Mexico, which represent an important measure of breeding and management progress in developing world wheat production, have increased by 25% over the past two decades.
Biodiversity regulation of ecosystem services. Chapter 11
December 2005
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively in the last 50 years than in any comparable period of human history.
Global Scale Climate-Crop Yield Relationships and the Impacts of Recent Warming
March 2007
Changes in the global production of major crops are important drivers of food prices, food security and land use decisions.
Our Daily Bread: Without public investment, the food crisis will only get worse
September 2008
During the eighteen months after January 2007, cereal prices doubled, setting off a world food crisis. In the United States, rising food prices have been a pocketbook annoyance.
Assessing risks of climate variability and climate change for Indonesian rice agriculture
May 2007
El Nino events typically lead to delayed rainfall and decreased rice planting in Indonesia's main rice-growing regions, thus prolonging the hungry season and increasing the risk of annual rice...
Climate change uncertainty for daily minimum and maximum temperatures: A model intercomparison
December 2007
Several impacts of climate change may depend more on changes in mean daily minimum (Tmin) or maximum (Tmax) temperatures than daily averages.
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 
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 
Noah Diffenbaugh Kara J. Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment 
Sam Heft-Neal Research scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford Department of Earth System Science Research scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment 
