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MagnifyRosamond L. Naylor, PhD
Director of FSE; Professor, Environmental Earth Systems Science Dept; Associate Professor of Economics, by courtesy, and William Wrigley Senior Fellow; FSI and Woods Institute Senior Fellow; CDDRL Affiliated Faculty
The Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki
Environment and Energy Building
Stanford University
473 Via Ortega, Office 363
Stanford, CA 94305
Research Interests
agriculture, aquaculture, ecosystem services, food security, economic development
Rosamond Naylor is director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment, professor of Environmental Earth Systems Science, William Wrigley Senior Fellow at FSI and the Woods Institute, associate professor of economics by courtesy, and affiliated faculty at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL).
Her research focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive food production. She has been involved in a number of field-level research projects throughout the world concerning issues of aquaculture production, high-input agricultural development, biotechnology, climate-induced yield variability, and food security. Additionally, she is engaged in policy issues associated with food and agricultural systems in the U.S. and abroad.
At Stanford, she is on the faculty for the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Environment and Resources (IPER) and she teaches courses on the World Food Economy and Sustainable Agriculture. She currently serves as a member on a number of advisory councils, including at the Pew Fellowships Program in Marine Science, the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS), and the Bill Lane Center for the American West. She previously served on the Oversight Committee for the McKnight Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program, from 1997 to 2007. Naylor was named Fellow in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program in Environmental Sciences in 1999 and Pew Fellow in Conservation and the Environment in 1994.
She received her BA in Economics and Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado, her MS in Economics from the London School of Economics, and her PhD in applied economics from Stanford University.
Stanford Departments
Economics
Other affiliations
Environmental Earth Systems Science
Publications
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Solar-powered Drip Irrigation Enhances Food Security in the Sudano-Sahel
Jennifer Burney, Lennart Woltering, Marshall Burke, Rosamond L. Naylor, Dov Pasternak
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
Coping with climate risks in Indonesia rice agriculture: a policy perspective
Rosamond L. Naylor, Michael D. Mastrandrea
Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making (2009) 
- Numerical modeling of aquaculture dissolved waste transport in a coastal embayment
S.K. Venayagamoorthy, O.B. Fringer, Jeffrey R. Koseff, Alice Chiu, Rosamond L. Naylor
Woods Institute Technical Report (2009) - Downscaling Indonesia precipitation using large-scale meteorological fields
Dan Vimont, David Battisti, Rosamond L. Naylor
International Journal of Climatology (2009) 
El Nino-Southern Oscillation impacts on rice production in Luzon, the Philippines
Martha G. Roberts, David Dawe, Walter P. Falcon, Rosamond L. Naylor
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology vol. 48, 8 (2009)
Events & Presentations
Research Programs & Projects
Program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
Program
Agricultural Decision-Making in Indonesia with ENSO Variability: Integrating Climate Science, Risk Assessment, and Policy Analysis
Project
An Alternative Development Model: Assessing solar electrification for income generation in rural Benin
Project
Biofuels and Food Security in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa: Pathways of impacts and assessments of investments
Project
Biomass Energy: The climate protective domain
Project
China's Impact on Forage Fisheries: Aquaculture and feed use in China
Project
Climate Change and Conflict: What are the links and where is the evidence?
Project
Farming Finfish in Coastal Ecosystems and the Open Ocean: Assessing Options for Sustainability
Project
Fertilizer Use and the Epidemiology and Evolution of Cholera in Bangladesh
Project
Globalization, Trade, and the Environment: The case of Brazil
Project
Impacts of ENSO Events on Chinese Rice Production and the World Rice Market
Project
Modeling of waste dispersal associated with marine aquaculture production
Project
Orphan crops
Project
Prioritizing Investments in Food Security Under a Changing Climate
Project
Social and environmental transformation in Chile's aquaculture industry, 1950-2000
Project
Consequences of Increased Global Meat Consumption on the Global Environment -- Trade in Virtual Water and Nutrients
Project (Completed)
Feeding the World in the 21st Century: Exploring the Connections between Food Production, Health, Environmental Resources, and International Security
CISAC, FSI Stanford Project (Completed)
Integrated Studies of Sustainability; Land-Water Systems of the Yaqui Basin
Project (Completed)
Search for Sustainable Solutions in Salmon Aquaculture
Project (Completed)
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