Water

Scholarly Publications

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

July 2020

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Sugar is the second largest agro-based industry in India and has a major influence on the country's water, food, and energy security.

On the role of anthropogenic climate change in the emerging food crisis in southern Africa in the 2019–2020 growing season

February 2020

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Researchers including David Lobell analyze how human-caused climate change has impacted a water defecit in Southern Africa and might contribute to a rising food security crisis in the region.

Flood Size Increases Nonlinearly Across the Western United States in Response to Lower Snow‐Precipitation Ratios

December 2019

Author(s): 
Marshall Burke, Noah Diffenbaugh, Frances Davenport, Julio Herrera-Estrada
Many mountainous and high‐latitude regions have experienced more precipitation as rain rather than snow due to warmer winter temperatures.
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Other Publications

Water, Water Everywhere? Devolution and the Water Sector in Kenya's Counties

October 2019

Author(s): 
Jason Lakin with Kamotho Waiganjo
As of 2009, at the time of Kenya’s last census, roughly half the population lacked access to clean water.

Weighing the Environment: Ghana's Bui Dam

September 2018

Author(s): 
Serena Li
This case examines the environmental permitting process leading up to the construction of the Bui Dam, the second largest hydropower facility in Ghana.

Funding Coca Codo Sinclair: Correa's Bet on Sustainable Power in Ecuador

September 2018

Author(s): 
Yao Yang
This case is about Ecuador's decision to finance the country's largest hydropower plant: Coca Codo Sinclair.
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News

David Lobell and Marshall Burke Talk Food Security, Human Health and the Importance of Mitigation

September 2018

When it comes to food security, health and poverty, the impacts of climate change already are evident.

Feeding Africa and the World in the 21st Century

December 2017

Food security experts from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) gathered to discuss transforming food production in Africa at Stanford on Nov. 29.
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Events

Can water security be engineered?

August 2, 2017

Description:  Audio recording of Craig Criddle talk, Can water security be engineered?, at CISAC, 01/22/2018  Abstract: Freshwater scarcity is expected to increase over the coming decades due to...
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Projects

Critical Infrastructure Resilience

The Critical Infrastructure Initiative builds the cyber-resilience of critical infrastructure through methodologically diverse outputs-oriented research and engagement with end users and homeland...
English

Understanding the Effects of China's Mariculture Development on Coastal Fisheries with Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport Modeling

Growth in shellfish, marine finfish, and seaweed production is being promoted aggressively in China to offset pressure on near-shore fisheries and to meet the country’s rising seafood demand.
English

The Mexico Initiative

OVERVIEW ŸŸŸ• PARTNERSHIPS • EVENTS • STUDENT ENGAGEMENT • BOOKS Staff Contact:Aberto Díaz-CayerosFreeman Spogli Institute for International StudiesEncina HallStanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305...
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Multimedia

India's Transition: Was Coleridge Right?

November 2019

Junaid Ahmad, the World Bank Country Director for India, looks at the political economy of managing service delivery in India through the prism of water.

Interview with Quentin Grafton

March 2018

Quentin Grafton, Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, visited FSE to speak about "Insights from the Global Food and Water Nexus." He sat...

Insights from the Global Food and Water Nexus

March 2018

Quentin Grafton presented at the Global Food Security Symposium on March 7, where he discussed the current state of the food-water nexus, possible future scenarios, and evaluated some of the myths, realities, and possible solutions to promote both...
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People

Roz low res 9 11 cropped Rosamond L. Naylor Senior Fellow William Wrigley Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment
Michael Bennon Pic Michael Bennon Research Scholar, CDDRL Program Manager, Global Infrastructure Policy Research Initiative
ADiaz website Alberto Díaz-Cayeros Senior Fellow Professor, by courtesy, Political Science
frank wolak Frank Wolak PESD Director, Senior Fellow Professor, Economics
Steve Luby Headshot Stephen P. Luby Senior Fellow Professor, Medicine (CHP/PCOR)
freyberg David Freyberg Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
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jillian Jillian Deines Postdoctoral Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Department of Earth System Science
Mark Smith Stanford Mark W. Smith Adjunct Affiliate, CHP/PCOR
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wolfram Wolfram Schlenker Visiting Scholar
kmoiyoi Katrina ole-MoiYoi Affiliated scholar