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.
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...
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...
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?
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...
Earth Matters: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
October 2, 2014
Meeting the world’s need for food in the 21st century presents unprecedented challenges and opportunities.
E-IPER Dissertation Defense: Rachael Garrett
June 5, 2013
Interactions between global supply chains, land use, and governance: the case of soybean production in South America Rapid growth in global soybean demand has had a profound impact on land cover in...
Water and agriculture in a changing Africa: What might be done?
May 23, 2013
Effective water management is one key element of agricultural innovation and growth.
China and Africa: Are there Lessons for Development?
April 17, 2013
The lost decades for China in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s look remarkably like the lost decades of Africa in the 1980s and 1990s.
Africa's Food Systems in 2030
February 5, 2013
Paul Collier will talk about how to manage the difference between helpful and damaging commercialisation, and puts forth three arguments.
How can trade improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa?
January 23, 2013
For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries, including in sub-Saharan Africa, have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of...
Linkages between food systems and human health in Africa
October 11, 2012
Pinstrup-Andersen, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy and J.
Impacts of climate change on agriculture and opportunities for detection and attribution
May 28, 2012
Presentation given by FSE fellow David Lobell at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) "Frontiers in the Detection and Attribution of Climate Change" workshop May 28, 2012.
Structural Change and the Future of Indian Agriculture
May 10, 2012
Binswanger-Mkhize's talk will look at past and likely future agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction in the context of the overall economy of India, in which growth has accelerated sharply...
Biofuels: The changing nature of agricultural demand
April 11, 2012
Policies promoting ethanol and biodiesel production and use in the U.S., Europe, and other parts of the world since the mid-2000s have had profound—and largely unintended—consequences on global...
Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture: Toward the identification of appropriate rural development strategies
January 12, 2012
Thom Jayne, Professor of International Development from Michigan State University will answer the following questions: What are the trends in land access?
Climate change and agricultural adaptation
December 8, 2011
What should food policy experts understand about future climate and how it will affect food security? What don't we know?
World Food and Agriculture Problems
October 17, 2011
David Lobell is a guest speaker for SLAC's fall colloquium series. All colloquium events are open to the public. SLAC Colloquium details.
African Agricultural R&D and Productivity Growth in a Global Setting
October 6, 2011
Trends in productivity and investments in technology. Survey of constraints to productivity, incentives and investment, and opportunities to raise productivity.
Aspen Environment Forum
May 30, 2011
FSE director Roz Naylor discussant in three panels at the 2011 Aspen Environment Forum, a conference sponsored by the Aspen Institute and National Geographic.
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 
Steven Gorelick Cyrus F. Tolman Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment 
