March 9th, 2006

Study confirms value of organic farming

CESP senior fellow Harold A. Mooney details the dangerous impacts nitrogen-rich chemical fertilizers can have on the atmosphere and important watersheds. He asserts "the use of organic versus chemical fertilizers can play a role in reducing these adverse effects." Read more »

March 8th, 2006

New Program on Food Security and the Environment Tackles Global Hunger and Environmental Destruction

This past autumn the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) in conjunction with the Woods Institute for the Environment launched a program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) to address the deficit in academia and, on a larger scale, the global dialogue surrounding the critical issues of food security, poverty, and environmental degradation. Read more »

February 8th, 2006

CESP senior fellows receive funding from the Presidential Fund to support the launch of the new program on Food Security and the Environment

The project, "Feeding the World in the 21st Century: Exploring the Connections Between Food Production, Health, Environmental Resources and International Security," was one of eight projects to be be awarded. The project will be headed by Food Security and the Environment program director Rosamond L. Naylor. Read more »

December 8th, 2005

Researchers urge better understanding of true costs of industrial livestock production

CESP senior fellows Rosamond L. Naylor, Walter P. Falcon, and Harold A. Mooney released the findings of a new study on the impacts of an increasingly global livestock industry in the Policy Forum of the Dec. 9 issue of Science. Read more »

October 28th, 2005

Thompson comments on precarious status of US fisheries and fishermen

The 1976 Magnuson Act, which provided governmental assistance to the fishing industry, supported the expansion of a fishing fleet built up beyond the capacity of the seas to provide that much fish, states Barton H. Thompson in a October 25 report in USA Today. Read more »

October 13th, 2005

Walter Falcon featured in the world hunger documentary Silent Killer: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger.

The film, hosted by NPR's Scott Simon, offers a compelling examination of both the problem and solutions surrounding world hunger. The program aired on PBS station KQED/San Francisco on Wednesday, November 2nd at 11:00 p.m. Read more »

June 29th, 2004

At climate symposium, Kennedy posits global warming as most serious worldwide threat

Speaking at a June 24 joint conference sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, CESP senior fellow Donald Kennedy warned of the pressing need to address global warming now. Read more »