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The Evolving Sphere of Food Security seeks to answer two important questions: How do the priorities and challenges of achieving food security change over time as countries develop economically? And how do the policies used to promote food security in one country affect nutrition, food access, natural resources, and national security in other countries? The volume presents the many faces and facets of food security—their symptoms, their roots, and their possible remedies—through the lens of a multidisciplinary group of scholars. The authors share personal stories of research and policy advising from their field experiences to provide readers with a real-world sense of the opportunities and challenges involved in promoting food security at local to global scales. Their observations from countries around the world demonstrate how food security is tied to security of many other kinds: energy, water, health, climate, the environment, and national security. The book’s main goal is to connect these areas in a way that tells an integrated story about human lives, resource use, and the policy process—a story about global food security.

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Rosamond L. Naylor
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David Freyberg is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Stanford. He has been on the faculty here since 1981. He completed undergraduate degrees in engineering science and environmental engineering at Dartmouth College in 1972. Following three years working in the water resources department of a consulting firm in Boston, Massachusetts, he headed west to Stanford for graduate work, where he completed his M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1981) He's been here ever since.

He is a member of the Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology program within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

He teaches a wide range of courses. This year's are entitled The Nature of Engineering, Hydrology and Water Resources, Environmental & Water Studies Design, and Watershed and Wetlands Hydrology.

His research interests are also broad. His current work focuses on the role of low permeability inclusions on the flow of water and dissolved contaminants in heterogeneous subsurface environments, flow in and below ephemeral channels, sedimentation in small reservoirs, and the pedagogy of fluid mechanics and water resources engineering. He also maintains a strong interest in water resources development, policy, and history, particularly in North America, the American West, the Middle East, and Asia. He is a co-author of a widely-used textbook, Water-Resources Engineering.

Prof. Freyberg was a recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. From 1988 until 1992 he served as Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education. He served on the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board from 1991 until 1997, chairing it from 1994-97. In June 1993 he was awarded the 1992-93 Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award for the outstanding educator in the School of Engineering, and in April 1994 he was named a Bing Teaching Fellow at Stanford.

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Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment
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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. 

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The Yaqui Valley, in Sonora, Mexico is a region of rapid demographic, economic, and ecological change in both upland and coastal areas. Situated on the west coast of mainland Mexico on the Gulf of California, the Valley currently comprises 225,000 has of irrigated wheat-based agriculture: recently adding aquaculture to its landscape. It is the birthplace of the Green Revolution for wheat and one of Mexico's most productive breadbaskets.

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Small-group activities encourage students to become historians as they evaluate letters from Hernando Cortés, poetry from the Aztecs, and pictures of the Danza de la Conquista. They come away from this unit with a richer knowledge of the Aztec/Spanish encounters; an understanding of concepts such as bias, perspective, interpretation, and balance; and an appreciation for the complexity of writing history.

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