The Center on Food Security and Environment is a non-partisan research center that jointly sits within the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Three main questions drive research at FSE:
1) How do we feed a world of 8 to 9 billion people this century without destroying the environment in the process?
2) How do we reduce chronic hun
ger among the roughly one billion people that live day in and day out in hunger?
3) How do we redefine national and international security to really get at the heart of human security issues of having adequate nutrition, health and safety, in terms of resource availability, lack of conflict and so forth? At FSE's core is a collaborative, interdisciplinary team of scholars from departments such as economics, political science, biology, civil and environmental engineering, law, earth sciences, medicine, anthropology, education, and history. FSE is currently engaged in over 17 different research projects, and offers courses for graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford interested in issues of hunger, rural development, global resource and environmental degradation, agricultural technology, climate impacts on food security, and agricultural trade and policy. FSE provides direct science and policy outreach through international development and aid institutions, the international agricultural research centers (CGIAR), the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), environmental non-profit organizations, private sector firms, and other groups that play significant roles in the agricultural development and environment arenas.
