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William G. Moseley

This article is about the professor. For the Massachusetts politician, see William G. Moseley (Massachusetts politician). For others with a similar name, see William Moseley.

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 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.[1] His research interests include tropical agriculture, food security, and development policy. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles, as well as twelve books.[2] In 2013 he won the Media Award,[3] and in 2016 the Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang Distinguished Africa Scholar Award,[4] both from the American Association of Geographers. He serves as President of the Mande Studies Association and as Vice President of the American Association of Geographers. He previously sat 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).[5]

Background and early years

Moseley attended Carleton College (B.A.History, 1987), the University of Michigan (M.S. and M.P.P., 1993), and the University of Georgia (PhD, 2001).[6] Before becoming an academic, Moseley was in the US Peace Corps in Mali from 1987 to 1989. He also worked for Save the Children UK, the World Bank Environment Department, and the US Agency for International Development.[citation needed]

Scholarship and publications

Moseley is a development and human-environment geographer with particular expertise in political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, livelihood security, and West Africa and Southern Africa. 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,[7] and previously was an associate editor of Food Policy and editor of the African Geographical Review.[citation needed]

Books

Moseley, W.G. 2024. Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation. London: Agenda Publishing (ISBN: 9781788215893).

Barcus, H.R. and W.G. Moseley (eds). 2023. Sustaining Rural Systems: Rural Vitality in an Era of Globalization and Economic Nationalism. New York: Routledge. (ISBN: 978- 1- 032- 44372- 0)

Moseley, W.G. and K. Otiso (eds). 2022. Debating African Issues: Conversations Under the Palaver Tree. London: Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group (ISBN 9780367201494)

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. (ISBN 978-1-13-818595-1)

McCusker, B., W.G. Moseley and M. Ramutsindela. 2015. Land Reform in South Africa: An Uneven Transformation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (ISBN 978-1-4422-0716-5)

Fouberg, E. and W.G. Moseley. 2015. Understanding World Regional Geography. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/Blackwell. (ISBN 978-0-471-73517-5)

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. (ISBN 978-1-4051-8931-6).

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. (ISBN 978-0-89680-260-5).

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. (ISBN 978-1-4051-4922-8).

Moseley, W.G. (ed.) 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on African Issues. 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Editions. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill. (ISBN 0-07-284517-1, ISBN 0-07-351507-8, ISBN 0-07-351518-3, and ISBN 0-07-805008-1).

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. (ISBN 0-7546-3904-5).

References

  1. ^ "Bill Moseley". Macalester College. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  2. ^ "William G. Moseley - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  3. ^ "AAG Media Achievement Award | AAG". www.aag.org. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  4. ^ Staff (2016-04-15). "2016 Annual Specialty and Affinity Group Awards". AAG Newsletter. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  5. ^ "FAO: HLPE Steering Committee". www.fao.org. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  6. ^ Moseley, W. G. (2002). Sahelian 'white gold' and rural poverty-environment interactions: The political ecology of cotton production, environmental change, and household food economy in Mali (Thesis). p. 1.
  7. ^ "William G Moseley | Al Jazeera News". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
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