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Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series
FSE's Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium series brings the world's leading policy experts in the fields of food and agricultural development to Stanford to participate in an integrated, twelve-lecture series on pro-poor growth and food security policy. Participants are addressing the major them ...
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October 19th, 2012
There is no food security without health and nutrition
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsExpanding food production and even alleviating poverty does not guarantee food security, health and nutrition. Food and nutrition policy expert Per Pinstrup-Andersen looks at the linkages between food systems and global health and nutrition at last week's Global Food Policy and Food Security symposium series. Read more »
May 14th, 2012
Stanford researchers question whether biofuel is the answer to U.S. energy independence
FSE, FSI Stanford in the news: Peninsula Press on May 14, 2012For the last four years, the costs of corn and crude oil have been intimately linked, and it was this relationship that Stanford’s Center on Food Security and the Environment addressed in a panel discussion last month.
May 12th, 2012
An optimistic Indian future depends on a strong rural economy
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsDespite accelerating economic growth in India over the last thirty years, India’s structural transformation remains stunted, said economist Hans Binswanger-Mkhize at a May 10 FSE symposium on global food policy and food security. Improving rural incomes and supporting agricultural growth is essential to decreasing poverty and unemployment in India now and in the future. Read more »
April 19th, 2012
Biofuels have mixed impacts on food security
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsIn the first decade of the 21st century, global production of ethanol and biodiesel increased nearly tenfold. If that trend continues, says Rosamond L. Naylor, director of Stanford University’s Center on Food Security and the Environment, national biofuels policies will have an increasingly powerful impact on food prices, food security, energy security, and rural incomes in the developing world. Read more »
November 15th, 2011
Global Food Security: An uphill battle that must be won
FSE Op-ed: Huffington Post on November 15, 2011Stanford Law graduate student Sam Sasan Shoamanesh op-ed piece on the inspiring keynote speech delivered this past Thursday by Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations. Read more »
November 10th, 2011
Stanford focus on food security expands as hunger worsens
FSE, FSI Stanford NewsFSE celebrates its center launch as part of FSI's conference on international security, food and health care. The center is poised to become the leading academic institution in the field of food security. Read more »
Kofi Annan warns of worldwide hunger, political unrest if climate change persists
FSI Stanford, FSE NewsThe former United Nations secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize winner called a lack of food security for nearly 1 billion of the world’s population “an unconscionable moral failing” that is also a stumbling block to a strong international economy. 
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