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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
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FacebookMay 21st, 2013
Stanford research team influences Chinese health policy
FSE, FSI Stanford, REAP in the newsThe Rural Education Action Program has a proven record of influencing policy decisions in China when it comes to improving children's health and nutrition. In interviews with NBC Bay Area, REAP co-director Scott Rozelle and members of his team talk about their work and the changes they've helped make. 
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May 17th, 2013
FSE Fulbright scholar leads climate adaptation workshops in Colombia
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsSharon Gourdji spent three months this winter down in Colombia at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) as a Fulbright Scholar studying climate impacts on bean production in Central America and adaptation options. During her stay she led a series of Decision and Policy Analysis workshops focused on climate data sources and crop statistical models.
May 16th, 2013
Water and agriculture in a changing Africa: What might be done?
FSE, FSI Stanford AnnouncementJoin us for our final Global Food Policy and Food Security symposium Thursday, May 23. John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University will lead a lecture on water and agriculture in a changing Africa. FSE fellow Jennifer Burney will provide commentary.
- » Water and agriculture in a changing Africa: What might be done?
- » Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series
April 30th, 2013
Expert says Obama's food aid reform has good ideas, bad chance for passage
FSE, FSI Stanford Q&AFSE visiting fellow and food aid expert Barry Riley comments on the importance of the President's new food aid reforms, chances of passage, and the US's current role in international food aid. Read more »
April 24th, 2013
Stagnation to modernization: How agriculture vitalized China's economy
FSE, FSI Stanford, REAP NewsOver the last thirty years, China’s rural income per capita has risen an astounding 20 times. Millions have been lifted out of poverty and have moved from the rural sector to China's thriving big cities. China expert Scott Rozelle credits this remarkable growth to the government's decision to put land in the hands of farmers, deregulate markets, and heavily invest in the agricultural sector. Read more »
April 16th, 2013
Video: Understanding the limits of crops under extreme heat
FSE associate director David Lobell delivers a lecture on "Understanding the limits of crops (and models) under extreme heat" as part of UC Davis' Climate-Smart Agriculture conference. Special Session - #7. Lobell's talk begins at 51:00.
March 26th, 2013
Video: Lobell talk on heat and hunger
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsFSE associate director David Lobell delivers a lecture on "Heat and Hunger" as part of ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability's sustainability series. He discusses crop adaptation to climate change and what we understand, particularly as it relates to food security. Read more »
March 21st, 2013
Satellite data play critical role in understanding yield gaps
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsAccording to a new study by FSE's David Lobell, satellite data can play a critical role in understanding yield gaps and meeting future crop demand. Satellite data can help overcome spatial and temporal scaling issues that challenge simulation and experiment based analyses of yield gaps, and are more available and affordable than ever. Read more »
March 5th, 2013
Corn getting thirstier with climate change
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsA new study led by FSE associate director David Lobell finds water stress may be the main culprit behind diminishing crop yields at higher temperatures. The paper appeared in the March online edition of Nature Climate Change. Read more »
February 26th, 2013
Agricultural climate adaptation can mitigate too
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsAdapting to climate change or mitigating climate change – which would you choose to invest your cash in? A new study shows that when it comes to agriculture, adaptation measures can also generate significant mitigation effects, making them a highly worthwhile investment. Read more »
February 25th, 2013
Stanford scientists help shed light on key component of China's pollution problem
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsA new study co-authored by FSE affiliated faculty Peter Vitousek reveals, among other findings, that amounts of nitrogen deposited on land and water in China by way of rain, dust and other carriers increased by 60 percent annually from the 1980s to the 2000s, with profound consequences for the country’s people and ecosystems. Read more »
February 13th, 2013
Debating the future of food in Africa
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsAfrica owns 60% of the world’s uncultivated land suited for crop production, but accounts for 30% of the world’s malnourished and only 3% of global agricultural exports. If there is one thing global agricultural policy experts Paul Collier and Derek Byerlee can agree on, it’s that Africa’s food system is struggling. Read more »
February 11th, 2013
Stanford law professor, security expert to lead FSI
CISAC, CDDRL, FSE, FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR, The Europe Center, Shorenstein APARC NewsWhen Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar takes the helm of FSI in July, he'll oversee the institute's 11 research centers and programs along with a variety of undergraduate and graduate education initiatives on international affairs. His leadership will be marked by a commitment to build on FSI’s interdisciplinary approach to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Read more »
January 15th, 2013
Benin solar market garden project one of five most hopeful energy projects of 2012
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsFSE's Benin solar market garden project was picked as one of the most five hopeful energy stories of 2012 by National Geographic. Jennifer Burney, FSE fellow and lead on the Benin project, is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. FSE began its partnership with the Solar Electric Light Fund in 2007 and continues to work together to spread the technology into new villages in West Africa.
- » Solar Market Gardens as a Tool for Rural Development
- » National Geographic: Five most hopeful energy stories of 2012
- » National Geographic: Solar energy brings food, water, and light to West Africa
December 5th, 2012
Breeding wheat for a warmer future
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsScientists are making progress in helping millions of wheat farmers adapt to hotter conditions, but the gains have been uneven, according to a new study co-authored by FSE researchers David Lobell and Sharon Gourdji. Read more »
November 29th, 2012
Institutions and supply chains help shape Brazil’s soybean boom
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsA 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 28th, 2012
A 'call to arms' for a transition to sustainability
FSE affiliated faculty member Pamela Matson was the keynote speaker at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center at the University of Maine. Her talk focuses on what is needed to transition to a sustainable world. She frames her lecture around FSE's agricultural sustainability research in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico.
November 27th, 2012
Charting a course to sustainable aquaculture
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsAquaculture 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 »
November 12th, 2012
Indian wheat yields gain but reaching limit
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsWheat is a staple crop throughout much of India, but in many areas it is commonly sown past the optimum yield window. A study led by FSE associate director David Lobell uses satellite measurements to estimate a decade’s worth of sow dates in wheat-growing areas of India. Read more »
November 9th, 2012
International climate action needed now, says top UN official
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark visits Stanford to set the stage for international climate talks taking place in Doha, Quatar later this month. Read more »
October 24th, 2012
Finding common threads in global water crises
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsWhat does drought in Kansas have to do with underutilized groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa? Potentially a lot, according to a new study by researchers with the Global Freshwater Initiative (GFI), a program of the Stanford Woods Institute. The study, co-authored by FSE senior fellow Scott Rozelle, is the first to systematically analyze and classify water crises around the world. It finds that water systems have a limited set of patterns or "syndromes" which can be classified into one of four categories: unsustainability, vulnerability, chronic scarcity or adaptation. These syndromes have their root causes in just a few factors that influence demand, supply, infrastructure and governance - a finding that challenges long-held views that freshwater issues require highly individualized solutions.
- » The nature and causes of the global water crisis: Syndromes from a meta-analysis of coupled human-water studies
- » Stanford Woods: Finding common threads in global water crises
October 19th, 2012
FSE has a few more questions for the candidates
As a follow up to the FSI piece on five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney, FSE fellows ask a few additional food security related questions. Read more »
There is no food security without health and nutrition
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsExpanding food production and even alleviating poverty does not guarantee food security, health and nutrition. Food and nutrition policy expert Per Pinstrup-Andersen looks at the linkages between food systems and global health and nutrition at last week's Global Food Policy and Food Security symposium series. Read more »
October 17th, 2012
Five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney
CISAC, CDDRL, FSE, FSI Stanford, The Europe Center, Shorenstein APARC NewsWith the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney set to focus on foreign policy, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute ask the questions they want answered and explain what voters should listen for and what they need to keep in mind. Read more »
October 9th, 2012
The elephant in the warming room: food & climate
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsFood security expert David Lobell talks with Stanford's Generation Anthropocene about the wide range of problems our changing climate will have on agriculture and the prospects for creating a sustainable food system in the future. Read more »
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