Rosamond L. Naylor

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Rosamond L. Naylor, PhD

  • Senior Fellow, Emerita, Stanford Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,
  • William Wrigely Professor, Emerita, Department of Environmental Social Sciences
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Biography

Rosamond (Roz) Naylor is the William Wrigley Professor, Emerita, of Global Environmental Policy in the Doerr School of Sustainability; and founding Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford University. Her research focuses on policies and practices to improve global food security and protect the environment on land and at sea. She has been involved in numerous field-level research projects around the world with her students and has published widely on issues related to global food systems, food policy, and aquaculture. She is the co-chair of The Blue Food Assessment, an international initiative aimed at providing a comprehensive scientific evaluation of the sustainability, nutrition, equity, and justice dimensions of aquatic foods cultured and captured in freshwater and marine environments within the global food system. She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), a Pew Marine Fellow, and a Leopold Leadership Fellow. She is also the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Aspen Global Change Institute and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Oceana. At Stanford, she teaches courses on The World Food Economy, Human Society and Environmental Change, and Food and Security.
 

publications

The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution: Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests

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The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution: Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests
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November 2016

The Evolving Sphere of Food Security

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The Evolving Sphere of Food Security
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September 2014

Frontiers in Food Policy: Perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa

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Frontiers in Food Policy: Perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa
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December 2013

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.
FSE Scholar Named AAAS Fellow
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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.
Can cash incentives stop deforestation?
A woman farming seaweed in Indonesia.
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Stanford researchers help lead international initiative to highlight aquatic foods’ untapped potential

Stanford researchers help lead international initiative to highlight aquatic foods’ untapped potential