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Climate Change
Adapting agriculture to a warmer world

David Lobell, Assistant Professor in Stanford’s Department of Environmental Earth System Science, says that acknowledging the gaps in our understanding of climate change could help us to more effectively prepare the world’s food system for a warmer future. Read more »


Agricultural Innovation
Fighting hunger in Africa with new methods of irrigation

Stanford scientists are calling for investments in small-scale irrigation projects and hydrologic mapping in sub-Saharan Africa to help buffer growers from erratic weather and poor crop yields that are expected to worsen with climate change. +HTML+


Overcoming poverty
Focusing on hunger, health care and politics, experts gather at Stanford

Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, set the tone for a daylong conference exploring the causes of poverty and how researchers, governments and philanthropists can lift the world’s most vulnerable from chronic underdevelopment.

November 27, 2011
Stanford-Cargill partnership strengthens to address food security issues

November 10, 2011
Kofi Annan warns of worldwide hunger, political unrest if climate change persists +VIDEO+

November 21, 2011
Stanford research on nutrition influences policy change in China

November 10, 2011
Stanford focus on food security expands as hunger worsens

November 15, 2011
Global Food Security: An uphill battle that must be won



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