http://fse.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from FSEen-usPublic domainhttp://fse.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/60http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1562FSE is very happy to announce a five-year, $3 million donation from Cargill in support of a visiting fellows program and other program activities. "Cargill's investment will provide critical seed-funding for the innovative solution-based research and teaching going on at FSE," said Roz Naylor, FSE director. "It will jump-start a visiting fellows program that will bring to Stanford experts working in key FSE research areas from the United States and abroad, and will help establish an infrastructure to support our research team."]]>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1562?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1552The Program on Food Security and the Environment was featured in a short profile in the Stanford Report.]]>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1552?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1553Energy self-sufficiency at home can mean widespread starvation abroad, FSE director Roz Naylor and deputy director Wally Falcon write in a May 18 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed.]]>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1553?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1545By the turn of this century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced 25 years of economic and political disaster. In the May/June 2008 issue of Boston Review, economist Edward Miguel tracks comparably hopeful economic trends throughout sub-Saharan Africa and suggests that we may be seeing a turnaround. Nine experts, including Rosamond Naylor and Jeremy Weinstein, gauge Miguel's optimism.]]>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1545?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1515In addition to important recent contributions to public understanding of the global food crisis by researchers at FSE, the issue is increasingly being picked up in the popular press.]]>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1515?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1514FSE visiting professor Peter Timmer calculates that up to 10 million people in Asian countries could die prematurely from the recent run-up in global rice prices. In an interview with the Center on Global Development, he described the spike in the cost of rice as "the most serious problem facing the world food economy since 1973-74, when a million people in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh alone died prematurely as a result of a rice crisis."]]>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1514?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1508%people1%, director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment, discusses the global food crisis on NPR's Morning Edition and KQED Forum. She also was interviewed by ABC7, while program director %people2% talked to NBC11.]]>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1508?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1506Researchers at FSE have received a 3-year, $350,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study the potential effects of climate change on agriculture and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Rockefeller funded work will seek to assess climate threats to staple food crops at a country level, quantify the sources of uncertainty inherent in these assessments, and determine what implications shifts in crop climates have for agricultural adaptation and genetic resources preservation - with the end goal of helping prioritize investments in agricultural development and food security under a changing climate.]]>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1506?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1454Full video of the Google.org course on poverty and development that Program on Global Justice Director Joshua Cohen moderated from September to November 2007 is now available online at YouTube.com. The 10-week course, which focused on understanding poverty and development at the global, national, local, and personal levels, was the first of three courses on Google.org's main areas of philanthropic activity.]]>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1454?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1412Crops of central importance to many of the worlds poor could be greatly harmed by climate change within the next two decades, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University's Program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE). The results are scheduled for publication on February 1st in the journal Science. "Understanding where these climate threats will be greatest, for what crops, and on what time scales, will be central to our efforts at fighting hunger and poverty over the coming decades," said lead author David Lobell, senior research scholar at FSE. The article has received extensive coverage in the popular press.]]>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1412?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1402Honoring the legacy of their husband and father, William Wrigley, Julie Ann Wrigley '71 and Alison Wrigley Rusack '80, along with Alison's husband, Geoffrey Claflin Rusack, have joined together to endow a new senior fellowship that will span both the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Woods Institute for the Environment.]]>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1402?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1392Researchers at FSE and the Carnegie Institute at Stanford have been awarded $1.2 million by Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) for the study of the effect of biofuels expansion on climate.]]>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1392?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1362The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded FSE and collaborators $3.8 million over three years for the study of "Biofuels and Food Security in the Developing World". The project is a collaboration between FSE, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the University of Nebraska, and the Center on Chinese Agricultural Policy.]]>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1362?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1360FSE is very pleased to announce that David Lobell will be joining the program full time as a Senior Research Scholar, effective January 1 2008. Lobell is a world expert on the interactions between climate and agriculture, and his research attempts to use modern observational and computing capabilities (remote sensing, GIS, climate and crop models) to improve food security and reduce environmental impacts of food production. He is currently a post-doc at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and received his PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford in 2005.]]>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1360?http://fse.stanford.edu/news/1361A non-governmental organization co-run by FSE graduate student Rodrigo Pizzaro has won a Tech Museum award in recognition of its "innovative work benefiting humanity". A non-governmental organization co-run by FSE graduate student Rodrigo Pizzaro has won a Tech Museum award in recognition of its "innovative work benefiting humanity".]]>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://fse.stanford.edu/news/1361?