Food Security
Research Area block
About one billion people go to bed hungry most nights.

Stanford Woods Institute researchers are addressing the challenges of feeding the world’s hungry without depleting the planet’s natural resources. They are designing new strategies for solving global hunger and environmental degradation while providing policy advice on issues relating to agricultural technology and development, food security, and environment and climate linkages to agriculture. This work links research on health, development, the environment and national security in unique ways to ensure consistent and sufficient availability of safe and nutritious foods, access to food through poverty alleviation and household income growth and the ability of individuals to utilize food effectively within the context of their physical health, water supplies and sanitation.
Research Centers and Programs

Center on Food Security and the Environment »
A joint effort with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) addresses the challenges of feeding the world's growing population without depleting the planet’s natural resources.

Natural Capital Project »
The Natural Capital Project melds world-class research on environmental economics with influential conservation programs. The center’s Integrated Valuation of Environmental Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) software suite enables decision-makers to quantify nature’s values, assess tradeoffs associated with alternative land- and water-use choices and integrate conservation and human development into land- and...
Other Research Centers and Programs
Environmental Venture Projects
News & Press Releases

How to Measure Resource Tradeoffs in Times of Drought »
A new computer model developed by a Stanford scientist can be used by resource managers around the world to weigh food and energy tradeoffs when water is scarce
By Paige Miller
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Media Coverage
Monsanto Pledges to be Carbon Neutral by 2021 »
Senior Fellow David Lobell (Earth System Science) comments on the importance of corporate commitments to carbon neutrality
By Jim Salter,