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
FacebookThe following is a collection of commentary about members (current or former) of FSE found on various external, unaffiliated websites via an automated process:
May 14, 2012
Stanford researchers question whether biofuel is the answer to U.S. energy independence
Mention of David Lobell via Peninsula PressDavid Lobell, who studies the interactions between food production, food security, and the environment at Stanford, pointed out, “one of the risks with biofuels is that alternatives don’t get explored ...” 
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April 3, 2012
FSI fellow addresses China education gap
Mention of Scott Rozelle via The Stanford DailyWhile 80 percent of urban Chinese students have Internet access, only two percent of their rural counterparts have the same privileges. Rozelle argues that the vast gap could result in a “lost generation” of children from rural backgrounds denied the skills to work in a modern economy, derailing China’s rapid economic growth. Read more »
February 23, 2012
Kaitlin Shilling: Climate Conflict and Export Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mention of Kaitlin Shilling via New Security BeatIn this short video interview, Stanford University’s Kaitlin Shilling talks about using agricultural and climate change sciences in a way to help policymakers better intervene to prevent climate-driven civil conflict. Read more »
January 30, 2012
Research shows climate change may shrink wheat crops
Mention of David Lobell via ABC OnlineProfessor David Lobell from Stanford University used nine years worth of satellite images to observe when Indian wheat crops turned brown, that is when they stopped growing. He looked at what happened when temperatures exceeded 34 degrees Celsius; ... Read more »
January 29, 2012
Wheat will age prematurely in a warmer world
Mention of David Lobell via New ScientistDavid Lobell of Stanford University in California used nine years of images from the MODIS Earth-observation satellite to track when wheat in this region turned from green to brown, a sign that the grain is no longer growing. Read more »
January 5, 2012
Climate Change and the Trillion-Dollar Disruption
Mention of Wolfram Schlenker via ForbesIn 2008, Columbia Researcher Wolfram Schlenker and North Carolina State researcher Michael J. Roberts examined the impact of rising temperatures on yields of corn, soybeans, and cotton. They found that yields drift upwards as temperatures rise until ... Read more »
December 5, 2011
Mapping underground water sources for drip irrigation could change African village life, say Stanford researchers
Mention of Jennifer Burney via Stanford University NewsBurney and her colleagues' work in two northern Benin villages is an example of successful investment in smallholder irrigation. They worked with women's cooperative agricultural groups to install and measure the economic and nutritional impacts of solar-powered drip-irrigated gardens on villages in West Africa's Sudano-Sahel region. Read more »
November 23, 2011
Better school lunches – in China
Mention of Scott Rozelle via Scope (blog)In a series of studies, economist Scott Rozelle’s research team found that nearly 40 percent of Chinese primary-school children suffered iron-deficiency anemia. After assessing Rozelle’s work, the Chinese government has pledged to make elementary and middle-school lunches more nutritious. Read more »
August 24, 2011
Climate cycles drive civil war
Mention of Marshall Burke via Nature.com (subscription)A 2009 study 2 by economist Marshall Burke at the University of California, Berkeley, and his co-workers found that the probability of armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa was about 50% higher than normal in some unusually warm years since 1981. Read more »
June 16, 2011
Stanford’s Scott Rozelle continues the fight against iron deficiency in rural China
Mention of Scott Rozelle via Scope (blog)Today's Stanford Report reports on economist Scott Rozelle, PhD's struggle to combat anemia, an iron-deficiency disorder that plagues impoverished rural regions in China where families are too poor to provide their children with iron-rich foods like ... Read more »
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