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

This research area explores the national and international land and water laws that govern land tenure and property rights in sub-Saharan African countries, with the aim of understanding how large...

Introduction to the Problem: Agricultural productivity is highly dependent on climate variability and is thus susceptible to future changes including temperature extremes and drought.

China's national government still struggles to keep students in school through high school Compulsory education in China ends with grade 9.

Background In policy and legal circles, human rights and human well-being are often referred to as "universal" concepts.  The human rights outlined in the 1946 Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

Violent conflicts claim 3,000 lives per day through wars, bombings and attacks that dominate the news media.

Biomass energy sources are among the most promising, most hyped, and most heavily subsidized future energy sources.

This project involves political scientists, economists, and medical researchers to address the question of whether hunger, poverty, disease and agricultural resource constraints foster civil...

Within one year of the project, pilot households saw a $0.69 per capita daily increase in standard of living.

From an unprecedented number of start-ups to a rising class of billion-dollar giants going global, high technology companies in China have a dramatically increasing need for effective leadership....

Meat production is projected to double by 2020 due to increased incomes, population growth, and rising per capita global consumption of meat.