Walter Falcon
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Walter Falcon
Senior Fellow (emeritus) - Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Helen C. Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy in Economics (emeritus)
Type:
Senior Fellow, Emeritus
School:
Humanities and Sciences
Additional Information:
former Deputy Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment; Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Research Area(s):
Food Security
Biography
Walter Falcon specializes in agricultural development, technology and policy, and on how agricultural activities affect resource use and environmental degradation. He has special expertise on Indonesia, Mexico and Pakistan, and on the international agricultural research system. His research interests currently focus on issues related to food security, biofuels, climate change and its effects on agriculture, and U.S. agricultural policy.
Selected Publications by this Author
News & Press Releases
It is the end of summer and time for another Iowa report. My wife and I own a medium-sized farm in East Central Iowa that produces corn and soybeans, and beef from a cow/calf herd. My day job is as Professor of International Agricultural Policy at Stanford University, typically working on hunger problems in Asia. The summer keeps me in direct contact with rural life in the Midwest.
By Walter Falcon,
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Media Coverage
How to Feed Our Planet Without Devastating the Environment »
Quotes Walter Falcon, senior fellow, emeritus, at Woods and deputy director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, on dealing with food security and environmental issues
By Catherine Cheney,