Message from we Director

摘要

This year, the Stanford Food Research Institute will cease to exist. The termination of the Food Research Institute is an event of great significance, but it does not mark the end of problems related to food. The institute was created in the 1930s with the aim of the addressing issues of food and welfare. It brought the analysis of production and processing of food, trade and consumption into one domain. The general conditions for such an institute were favourable in the 1930s, the time of the greatdepression, rural poverty and the expansion of public investment and market intervention.