The Politics of Global Food Security

Philip McMichael is Professor and Chair of Development Sociology at Cornell University, where he studies how the politics of global food systems are affected by global energy, financial and climate crises as well as the food sovereignty movement. He is the author and editor of several books, including Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, now in its fifth edition. McMichael, who grew up in Australia, has held academic positions at SUNY-Binghamton, Swarthmore College, and the University of Georgia and has worked with such groups as the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and its Civil Society Mechanism in the Committee on World Food Security, the UN Research Institute for Social Development, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and the peasant coalition La Vía Campesina.