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Food Security
Human Price of Forest Destruction Paid in Plague
Senior Fellow James Holland Jones (Anthropology) discusses the need to study disease mechanisms to better understand how diseases are being transmitted to humans.
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Climate Change Will Hit America in the Breadbasket, Scientists Say
Senior Fellow Paul Ehrlich (Biology) notes that little has been done to counter negative trends in food security, even though they've been known about for decades.
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Meet A Data Scientist Who's Helped Revolutionize Agriculture
Profile of Senior Fellow David Lobell
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India Air Pollution 'Cutting Crop Yields by Almost Half'
Quotes Senior Fellow David Lobell on study findings that air pollution in India has become so severe that yields of crops are being cut by almost half
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Grow Lights and Drones: How California's Drought is Driving Farmers Into High-Tech
Cites research led by Senior Fellow Noah Diffenbaugh (Environmental Earth System Science) that found that high levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would likely keep triggering the high-pressure barriers that forced rainstorms away from California's farmland this year
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Study Finds Alarming Level of Lead in Pregnant Women
Discusses interim results of Environmental Venture Project-supported research showing link between pesticide use and lead poisoning.
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Climate Change May Reduce Corn, Wheat Crop Yields
Discusses research by Senior Fellow David Lobell
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How to Feed Our Planet Without Devastating the Environment
Quotes Walter Falcon, senior fellow, emeritus, at Woods and deputy director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, on dealing with food security and environmental issues
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Europe Wheat Yields Forecast in Study to Fall on Climate Warming
Cites study findings from David Lobell, Woods senior fellow, that wheat and barley yields in Europe may noticeably fall by 2040, due to expected climate warming
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Bumper Corn Looks Dicey in Drought
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow David Lobell on corn's sensitivity to higher temperatures
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Cornfields Could Yield Less by Midcentury
Describes research by Woods Senior Fellow David Lobell on how genetic improvements have led to steadily higher corn yields, while corn yields have become more sensitive to drought
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Panel's Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come
Quotes Woods Senior Fellows Chris Field and David Lobell on findings of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that climate change is already responsible for major changes on every continent. Stanford played a major role in creating the report; Stanford climate scientists were quoted in more than 50 major media print, website and broadcast stories, including NPR, the BBC, USA Today, Associated Press, The Guardian, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News, KRON-TV, KGO Radio, the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, The Financial Times, National Geographic, Salon.com, The Weather Channel, Forbes, Reuters, Examiner.com, the Huffington Post, the Toronto Star and USEmbassy.gov (an international news site managed by the U.S. State Department).
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Chipotle: Don’t Panic About Guacamole
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow David Lobell on negative response of several crops to global warming, including avocados
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Snowfall No Longer a Sure Bet, Booming Ski Towns Fight Going Bust
Quotes Senior Fellows Terry Root and Noah Diffenbaugh on the lack of snow at ski resorts
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Is Demand for Non-GM Soy Boosting ‘Green Agriculture’ in the Amazon?
Cites research co-authored by Senior Fellow Eric Lambin
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