Leaders from Stanford University's Center on Food Security and the Environment discuss the Center's global and multifaceted approach to addressing issues of global hunger, poverty, climate change and environmental degradation in this five-minute overview video.
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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. For more events, visit: http://fse.fsi.stanford.edu
In the first lecture of the Food and Nutrition Policy Symposium Series, Thomas Hertel (Purdue University) and Johan Swinnen (KU Leuven, Belgium) answer "Has the Food Price Bubble Burst?"
Professor Sir Gordon Conway visited Stanford University on February 10, 2015 to discuss the importance of sustainable intensification of agriculture to feed the world in the face of obstacles such ...
Dr. Cary Fowler visited Stanford University on May 6, 2015 to discuss the importance of collecting and preserving crop genetic diversity to cope with the future effects of climate change on the glo...
Professor Craig McIntosh (UC San Diego) visited Stanford University on November 4, 2015 to share lessons learned about why new technology adoption among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa su...
Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, visited Stanford University on November 20, 2015 to speak about "Food Security and Nutrition in an Era of Conflict an...
Hilary Hoynes, Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at UC Berkeley, visited Stanford University on January 21, 2016 to speak about "The Role of SNAP in the U.S. Social Safety Net: Asses...
David Little is a senior lecturer and researcher of The Institute of Aquaculture Systems Group, with over twenty years’ experience in tropical aquaculture. His major research interest are the paral...
Ronald Hardy is an international expert in fish nutrition and serves as Director of the Aquaculture Research Institute at the University of Idaho. As a veteran of aquaculture science and fish nutri...
Ronald Hardy is an international expert in fish nutrition and serves as Director of the Aquaculture Research Institute at the University of Idaho. As a veteran of aquaculture science and fish nutri...
Pamela Ronald is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. She is Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint Bioenerg...
Pamela Ronald is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. She is Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint Bioenerg...
Ronald Hardy is an international expert in fish nutrition and serves as Director of the Aquaculture Research Institute at the University of Idaho. As a veteran of aquaculture science and fish nutri...
David Little is a senior lecturer and researcher of The Institute of Aquaculture Systems Group, with over twenty years’ experience in tropical aquaculture. His major research interest are the paral...
Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, visited Stanford University on November 20, 2015 to speak about "Food Security and Nutrition in an Era of Conflict an...
Professor Craig McIntosh (UC San Diego) visited Stanford University on November 4, 2015 to share lessons learned about why new technology adoption among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa su...
Elsa Ordway is a PhD candidate in Stanford University's Department of Earth System Science. She is part of a multi-year research project on "Poverty alleviation through sustainable palm oil product...
Stanford consulting professor Jim Leape, former head of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), works with farmers, conservationists, community groups, governments and big companies to chart a path for the ...
Roz Naylor, Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford, lays out the three pillars of food security, explaining the importance of each in the context of feeding a growi...
In an Earth Matters lecture, Professor Rosamond Naylor said that food insecurity arises from a complex and interactive set of factors including poverty, malnutrition, disease, conflict, poor govern...
Homogenizing crops and planting in monocultures raises big risks. David Lobell, the Deputy Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford, discusses how we can reduce that ...
Wally Falcon, Professor of International Agricultural Policy and Economics (Emeritus) at Stanford University speaks from personal experience about the many uncertainties and risks that farmers face...
Over the next two years, the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) is bringing the world's leading policy experts in the fields of food and agricultural development to Stanford to participate in an integrated, twelve-lecture series on pro-poor growth and food security policy. Participants are addressing the major themes of hunger and rural poverty, agricultural productivity, resource and climate constraints on agriculture, and food and agriculture policy. The emphasis of the series is on the implementation of sound policies that will enhance agricultural production, incomes, and resource stewardship.