By 2050, the world’s population is estimated to reach 9 billion people. Can we produce enough food to sustain them without irreversibly depleting our lands and waters? Stanford researchers are addressing this and other critical issues of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation by generating vital knowledge and policy-relevant solutions through the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE). A joint initiative of Woods and Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, FSE works to connect the dots between water and nutrient management, energy and climate change, national security, gender, education and infectious disease. Its interdisciplinary team of scholars addresses hunger at the global, regional and local scales through a research portfolio focused on seven key areas: food and nutrition security, aquaculture, biofuels, climate and agriculture, agricultural innovations, "deadly connections" and crop and livestock systems. FSE also pursues a robust teaching program and direct science and policy advising by Stanford earth scientists, economists, public health and nutrition specialists, biologists, law and political science experts. Read on for highlights from FSE’s 2014-15 work.