Rosamond (Roz) Lee Naylor (born Feb 24, 1958) is an American economist focused on global food security and sustainable agriculture.
[1][2] She is the President of the Board of Directors of the Aspen Global Change Institute, a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, and a member of the Forest Protection Advisory Panel for Cargill.
Roz worked in the financial sector in San Francisco prior to enrolling in a PhD program in applied economics at the Food Research Institute at Stanford University in 1984.
Although trained as an economist, Naylor collaborates widely with scholars in the natural and physical sciences[3][4] The field of global food security and agriculture-environment interactions is vast.
Naylor also conducted a study on how rising temperatures due to climate change will affect food systems and what adaptation measures will be necessary.
Working with FSE fellow Jennifer Burney, Naylor led a multi-year survey to measure the impacts of solar market gardens in Benin, West Africa.
In a culmination of collaborative work with colleagues at Stanford over the past two decades Naylor published The Evolving Sphere of Food Security[17].
Designed primarily for university teaching purposes the book provides three novel approaches to understanding global food security.
[22] The assessments includes a series of reports on topics such as nutrition, environmental impacts, and justice, and small-scale producers, that will inform policy and the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit.