FAMILY FARMS, TRAPPED BETWEEN WAL-MART AND MONSANTO, ARE LIKELY TO BECOME VICTIMS OF U.S. GOVERNMENT AUSTERITY MEASURES

  theREALnews

May 25, 2011

Family Farmers Worse Off Despite High Prices

Tim A. Wise: Family farmers caught in the middle between corporate monopolies


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Bio

Timothy A. Wise is the Research Director of the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE), Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. With a background in international development, he specializes in agricultural policy and rural development. He is involved in ongoing research in the areas of: Sustainable Rural Development, Beyond Agricultural Subsidies, Mexico Under NAFTA, WTO and Global Trade. He is the co-author of the book (in English and Spanish), Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico, and The Promise and the Perils of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Lessons from Latin America. He is the former executive director of Grassroots International, a Boston-based international aid organization. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Tufts' Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department.