I'm currently the Program Manager at the Program on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University. In addition to managerial duties I'm involved in a number of research projects at FSE, these days concentrating mostly on quantifying the potential impacts of climate change on agriculture in poor countries.
A couple recent papers: (more papers here). Titles should link to pdfs...
Marshall Burke, David Lobell, and Luigi Guarino. 2008. Shifts in African crop climates to 2050, and the implications for crop improvement and genetic resources conservation. Submitted. figs
David Lobell and Marshall Burke. 2008. Why are agricultural impacts of climate change so uncertain? The importance of temperature relative to precipitation. Environmental Research Letters, September 2008.
Marshall Burke, Kirsten Oleson, Ellen McCullough, and Joanne Gaskell. 2008. A Global Model Tracking Water, Nitrogen, and Land Inputs and Virtual Transfers from Industrialized Meat Production and Trade. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, June 2008.
David Lobell, Marshall Burke et al. 2008. Prioritizing climate change adaptation needs for food security in 2030. Science 319, 607-610.
Roz Naylor, Adam Liska, Marshall Burke, and others. 2007. The ripple effect: biofuels, food security, and the environment. Environment 49, 30-43.