Edited by Rosamond L. Naylor, Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University

An economist by training, Rosamond (Roz) Naylor directs the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University and is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Earth System Science. She works with colleagues from several disciplines to study the economic and biophysical dimensions of food security and the environmental impacts of crop and animal production around the world. Roz' work provides her with the opportunity to explore cultures, farming practices, and policies in a wide variety of countries. She has served as an advisor to the McKnight Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program and currently serves on Advisory Committees for the Beijer Institute in Stockholm, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, and The Nature Conservancy. She is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow and a Pew Marine Fellow. At Stanford, Roz teaches courses on the world food economy, human society and environmental change, and food security.

Eran Bendavid
Jennifer Burney
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Jennifer Davis
Walter P. Falcon
Christopher B. Field
Jikun Huang
Eric F. Lambin
David Lazarus
David B. Lobell
Pamela A. Matson
Rosamond L. Naylor
Amy J. Pickering
Scott Rozelle
Ximena Rueda
Whitney L. Smith
Stephen John Stedman
Johan Swinnen
Barton (Buzz) H. Thompson, Jr.
Peter A. Vitousek
Xiaobing Wang

"The Evolving Sphere of Food Security will be an inspiration to all who want to understand the key importance of food, water, and energy as they link with health, the environment, and the role of women-all so crucial for sustainable development." - Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway

"This book performs a great service by tackling our species' most important issue with sober, insightful analysis from every relevant angle. It shatters the easy assumptions and mythology that all too often cloud our understanding of poverty, food and hunger to deliver news vital to each and every one of the 7 plus billion of us. It is about far more than food security. Read right, it illuminates the human condition and outlines the rules for our continued sustenance on the evolving sphere that is our planet." - Richard Manning, author of Against the Grain and Food's Frontier