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Rosamond L. Naylor, PhD

Director, FSE; Professor, Environmental Earth System Science; Associate Professor of Economics, by courtesy and William Wrigley Senior Fellow; FSI and Woods Institute Senior Fellow

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November 29th, 2012

Institutions and supply chains help shape Brazil’s soybean boom

FSE, FSI Stanford News

A new study out of Stanford University examines the role of institutions and supply chain conditions in Brazil’s booming soybean industry and the relationship between soy yields and planted area. With the demand for soybeans projected to increase far into the future a better understanding of the economic and institutional factors influencing production can help policymakers better manage land use change. Read more »



November 27th, 2012

Charting a course to sustainable aquaculture

FSE, FSI Stanford News

Aquaculture is the fastest-growing animal food production sector and will soon supply more than half of the world's seafood. A recent study by FSE director Rosamond L. Naylor, and Stanford Ph.D. student Dane Klinger, explores potential solutions to the industry's range of resource and environmental problems. Read more »




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Researchers devise model to help tackle fish farm waste
To tackle the issue, Koseff and Roz Naylor, a Stanford professor of environmental Earth system science, plus Oliver Fringer, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and a team of colleagues devised a computational model that allows ...
April 11, 2011 in FIS

For coastal fish farm waste, dilution is not an automatic solution, Stanford researchers say
Concentrated waste plumes from fish farms could travel significant distances to reach coastlines, according to a study co-authored by Roz Naylor and Jeffrey Koseff, senior fellows at the Woods Institute for the Environment. BY LOUIS BERGERON One of the ...
April 7, 2011 in Stanford Report

Bread is more than wheat, milk and eggs
Rosamond Naylor: You know in the United States, we spend less than 10 percent of our household budget overall on average on food. Rosamond Naylor heads the Program on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford. She says, compare that to Asia and ...
March 1, 2011 in Marketplace

Our biofuel future: The bitter taste of land grabs and hunger
As it turns out, this not-uncommon assumption, that the biofuel bubble has burst, is an a-maize-ing farce, pointed out Rosamond (Roz) Naylor, professor of ...
October 22, 2010 in Grist Magazine