Rosamond L. Naylor

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Rosamond L. Naylor, PhD

  • Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  • William Wrigley Professor of Earth System Science
  • Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment

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Biography

Rosamond Naylor is the William Wrigley Professor in Earth System Science, a Senior Fellow at Stanford Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the founding Director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, and Professor of Economics (by courtesy) at Stanford University. She received her B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado, her M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics, and her Ph.D. in applied economics from Stanford University. Her research focuses on policies and practices to improve global food security and protect the environment on land and at sea. She works with her students in many locations around the world. She has been involved in many field-level research projects around the world and has published widely on issues related to intensive crop production, aquaculture and livestock systems, biofuels, climate change, food price volatility, and food policy analysis. In addition to her many peer-reviewed papers, Naylor has published two books on her work: The Evolving Sphere of Food Security (Naylor, ed., 2014), and The Tropical Oil Crops Revolution: Food, Farmers, Fuels, and Forests (Byerlee, Falcon, and Naylor, 2017).

She is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, a Pew Marine Fellow, a Leopold Leadership Fellow, a Fellow of the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics, a member of Sigma Xi, and the co-Chair of the Blue Food Assessment. Naylor serves as the President of the Board of Directors for Aspen Global Change Institute, is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Oceana and is a member of the Forest Advisory Panel for Cargill. At Stanford, Naylor teaches courses on the World Food Economy, Human-Environment Interactions, and Food and Security. 

publications

Journal Articles
August 2022

Rethinking Global Food Demand for 2050

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Journal Articles
March 2021

A 20-year retrospective review of global aquaculture

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July 2020

Water-food-energy challenges in India: political economy of the sugar industry

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In The News

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FSE Scholar Named AAAS Fellow

Roz Naylor among new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Can cash incentives stop deforestation?

New work by team including FSE researchers provides a broad, cautionary understanding of why financial incentives alone are unlikely to prevent forest-clearing fires in Indonesia’s oil palm regions.
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Stanford researchers help lead international initiative to highlight aquatic foods’ untapped potential

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