The project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions...

Human exposure to lead in the environment causes irreversible impairment of intellectual function.

The Yaqui Valley is the birthplace of the Green Revolution and one of the most intensive agricultural regions of the world, using irrigation, fertilizers, and other technologies to produce some of...

FSE's previous Rockefeller project on "Prioritizing Investments in Food Security under a Changing Climate" pursued several research directions in an effort to better characterize the risks that...

Indonesia is currently the world’s top palm oil producer.

More than two-thirds of the population in Africa must leave their home to fetch water for drinking and domestic use.

There are reasons to expect more frequent price spikes, given that it will be more common to see conditions that are considered extreme. Other factors could dampen rises, however, including...

In the northern region of Benin, in the Sudano-Sahel region of West Africa, the dry season between rains can last six to nine months at a time.

Providing food security for a world that will be warmer, more populous, and continually developing requires the implementation of sound policies that enhance food and agricultural consumption,...

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

This project seeks to summarize, systematize, and make publicly available basic data on the agricultural production and consumption behavior of the global poor.