China’s Green Revolution and African Agricultural Development: Dis-Oriented Histories and Misapplied Lessons - A talk by William Moseley October 14, 2011

William Moseley is a professor in the Department of Geography at Macalester College where he teaches about and researches political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, and livelihood security. Most of his fieldwork has been undertaken in West and Southern Africa and his research over the past several years has fallen into three general categories: 1) analysis of the interaction between broader scale political economy and local human-environment interactions (or political ecology); 2) livelihood security, famine early warning and hunger; and 3) the environmental dimensions of modern and traditional agriculture. Among other works, he is the author of Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa (with Leslie Gray, 2008) and "Lessons from the 2008 Global Food Crisis: Agro-Food Dynamics in Mali" (2011).

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