William G. Moseley is an American academic. He is the DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, and director of the Food, Agriculture & Society Program at

Macalester College Macalester College () is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1874, Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 2,174 students in the fall of 2018 from 50 U.S. states, four U.S te ...

Saint Paul Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over t ...

. His research interests include tropical agriculture,

food security Food security speaks to the availability of food in a country (or geography) and the ability of individuals within that country (geography) to access, afford, and source adequate foodstuffs. According to the United Nations' Committee on World ...

, and development policy. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles, as well as eight books. In 2013 he won the Media Award, and in 2016 the Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang Distinguished Africa Scholar Award, both from the

American Association of Geographers The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography and related fields. Its headquarters is located in Washington, D.C. The ...

. He serves on the International Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS).

Background and early years

Moseley attended

Carleton College Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowlin ...

(B.A.History, 1987), the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

(M.S. and M.P.P., 1993), and the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

(PhD, 2001). Before becoming an academic, Moseley was in the US

Peace Corps The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order of President John ...

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Ma ...

from 1987 to 1989. He also worked for Save the Children UK, the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...

Environment Department, and the

US Agency for International Development The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 bil ...

Scholarship and publications

Moseley is a development and human-environment geographer with particular expertise in political ecology,

tropical agriculture Worldwide more human beings gain their livelihood from agriculture than any other endeavor; the majority are self-employed subsistence farmers living in the tropics. While growing food for local consumption is the core of tropical agriculture, ...

, environment and development policy, livelihood security, and

West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali ...

and

Southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number o ...

. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as numerous newspaper op-eds. He writes a regular column for ''Al Jazeera'', and previously was an associate editor of ''

Food Policy Food policy is the area of public policy concerning how food is produced, processed, distributed, purchased, or provided. Food policies are designed to influence the operation of the food and agriculture system balanced with ensuring human health ...

'' and editor of the '' African Geographical Review''.

Books

Moseley, W.G., M. Schnurr and R. Bezner Kerr. 2016. ''Africa’s Green Revolution: Critical Perspectives on New Agricultural Technologies and Systems.'' Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis. () McCusker, B., W.G. Moseley and M. Ramutsindela. 2015. ''Land Reform in South Africa: An Uneven Transformation''. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. () Fouberg, E. and W.G. Moseley. 2015. ''Understanding World Regional Geography''. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/Blackwell. () Moseley, W.G., E. Perramond and H. Hapke and P. Laris. 2013. ''An Introduction to Human-Environment Geography: Local Dynamics and Global Processes''. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/Blackwell. (). Moseley, W.G. and L.C. Gray (eds). 2008. Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press and Nordic Africa Press. (). Moseley, W.G., D. Lanegran and K. Pandit (eds). 2007. The Introductory Reader in Human Geography: Contemporary Debates and Classic Writings. Malden, MA: Blackwell Press. (). Moseley, W.G. (ed.) 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on African Issues. 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Editions. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill. (, , , and ). Moseley, W.G. and B.I. Logan. (eds.) 2004. African Environment and Development: Rhetoric, Programs, Realities. King’s SOAS Studies in Development Geography. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited. ().

References

External links

Faculty biography

2019 Video of live public conversation with former Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg & former student Julia Morgan

2018 video story and interview on vimeo entitled "Faces: A Case for Academia"

2016 video MacTalks: How to make West African peanut sauce

2011 YouTube video on "How Does One Become a Geographer"

Voice interview on ''Africafiles: The Pulse''

2012 Interview (TV) on Twin Cities Public Television re: famine in the Horn of Africa.
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