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The Elusive Goal of Global Food Security
February 2018
Ending world hunger is a universal goal, yet progress and social awareness of the issue waxes and wanes in the course of broader political and economic developments.
Impact of a rural solar electrification project on the level and structure of women's empowerment
September 2017
Although development organizations agree that reliable access to energy and energy services—one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals—is likely to have profound and perhaps disproportionate...
Mapping Smallholder Yield Heterogeneity at Multiple Scales in Eastern Africa
September 2017
Accurate measurements of crop production in smallholder farming systems are critical to the understanding of yield constraints and, thus, setting the appropriate agronomic investments and policies...
The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution: Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests
November 2016
Over the last two decades global production of soybean and palm oil seeds have increased enormously.
Solar-powered drip irrigation Impacts on crops production diversity and dietary diversity in northern Benin
March 2016
In 2007, "solar market gardens" were installed in 2 villages for women’s agricultural groups as a strategy for enhancing food and nutrition security.
Agricultural adaptation to climate change in rich and poor countries: Current modeling practice and potential for empirical contributions
February 2016
In this paper we discuss the scope of the adaptation challenge facing world agriculture in the coming decades.
Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production
November 2015
Growing evidence demonstrates that climatic conditions can have a profound impact on the functioning of modern human societies, but effects on economic activity appear inconsistent.
Strengths and weaknesses of the smallholder oil palm sector in Cameroon
March 2014
The present study is an evaluation of the current strengths and weaknesses of the oil palm smallholder sector in Cameroon, or more precisely of the non-industrial sector, as some holdings owned by...
Frontiers in Food Policy: Perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa
December 2013
Frontiers in Food Policy: Perspectives on sub-Saharan Africa is a compilation of research stemming from the Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series, hosted by the Center on Food...
India 1960-2010: Structural change, the rural non-farm sector, and the prospects for agriculture
May 2012
This paper looks at past and likely future agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction in the context of the overall Indian economy.
Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture: Implications for food security and poverty reduction strategies
January 2012
Despite the fact that sub-Saharan Africa in 2012 contains much of the world’s unutilized and underutilized arable land, a significant and growing share of Africa’s farm households live in densely...
African Agricultural Productivity Growth and R&D in a Global Setting
October 2011
This paper was prepared for Stanford University’s Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series, hosted by the Center on Food Security and the Environment, and supported by the Bill and...
Assisting the escape from persistent ultra-poverty in rural Africa
April 2011
This paper was prepared for Stanford University’s Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series, hosted by the Center on Food Security and the Environment, and supported by the Bill and...
Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability in Tanzania
February 2011
Climate volatility could change in the future, with important implications for agricultural productivity.
The Poverty Implications of Climate-Induced Crop Yield Changes by 2030
February 2010
Accumulating evidence suggests that agricultural production could be greatly affected by climate change, but there remains little quantitative understanding of how these agricultural impacts would...
Agricultural Lives of the Poor
December 2009
This paper presents data from six of the first countries incorporated into the Agricultural Lives of the Poor project: Ghana, Guatemala, India, Malawi, Uganda, and Vietnam. Datasets were selected...
The Asian Maize Economy in 2025
December 2008
This chapter looks more qualitatively at Asia as a single region and focuses more speculatively on the longer run.
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.
Is it Africa's Turn? Progress in the World's Poorest Region
May 2008
By the turn of this century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster.
Climate Change and Global Health: Quantifying a Growing Ethical Crisis
November 2007
Climate change, as an environmental hazard operating at the global scale, poses a unique and "involuntary exposure" to many societies, and therefore represents possibly the largest health inequity...
The Ripple Effect: Biofuels, Food Security, and the Environment
November 2007
The integration of the agricultural and energy sectors caused by rapid growth in the biofuels market signals a new era in food policy and sustainable development.
Project Timeline: Program for the Study of Biofuels, Poverty and Food Security
February 2007
A concept note about setting up an international program for studying the effects of the emergence of biofuels on global poverty and food security. The recent global expansion of biofuels...
People
David Lobell Senior Fellow Professor, Earth System Science, William Wrigley Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford 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 
Ertharin Cousin Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Visiting Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment