Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Center on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Health Policy
The Europe Center
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Rural Education Action Program
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies
Center for Innovation in Global Health
Stanford Center at Peking University
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 FellowView Rosamond Naylor's bio, list of research, recent publications and events »
July 1st, 2012
FSE overview video: A brighter future through food security
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsLeaders 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. Read more »
June 18th, 2012
Stanford Firestone Medal awarded for aquaculture thesis
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsRoss Feehan's thesis on "Helping Those Who Harm: Harmonizing the Practice and Ethics of Aquaculture Insurance in China" won Stanford's Firestone Medal for excellence in undergraduate research. FSE director Roz Naylor advised Feehan on his interdisciplinary thesis. Read more »
May 24th, 2012
Authors, NGOs, and scientists to talk population
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsRoz Naylor, director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, will join authors, activists, and scientists for a daylong symposium on population at the Moving Mountains Symposium in Telluride, Colorado May 25. Read more »
April 23rd, 2012
Small-scale irrigation investments needed in sub-Saharan Africa
FSE, FSI Stanford News95 percent of farms in sub-Saharan Africa are rainfed and rely on water from a short, 4-5 month rainy season. These conditions exist despite the fact that Africa has water, and that poor water access and distribution are closely connected to high rates of malnutrition and poverty. New investment strategies focused on small-scale irrigation systems are needed to curtail sub-Saharan Africa’s water and food security crisis. Read more »
April 19th, 2012
Biofuels have mixed impacts on food security
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsIn the first decade of the 21st century, global production of ethanol and biodiesel increased nearly tenfold. If that trend continues, says Rosamond L. Naylor, director of Stanford University’s Center on Food Security and the Environment, national biofuels policies will have an increasingly powerful impact on food prices, food security, energy security, and rural incomes in the developing world. Read more »
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