Philip McMichael, Cornell University
Professor
Ithaca, New York
pdm1@cornell.edu
Office:
(607) 255-5495
Expert In
Bio/Research
Current research concerns examining the 'global land grab' as a harbinger of the new bioeconomy, and as a process of relocating agriculture to land in the global South as the basis of a new food regime. My hypothesis is that such developments express a large-scale transition in the global food ec...
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Bio/Research
Current research concerns examining the 'global land grab' as a harbinger of the new bioeconomy, and as a process of relocating agriculture to land in the global South as the basis of a new food regime. My hypothesis is that such developments express a large-scale transition in the global food economy driven by the combination of crises (energy, food, climate and financial), resulting in a reconfiguration of the content (biomass emphasis) and location of world agriculture. At the same time this development is contested, and I am also examining the rise of alternative, multi-functional conceptions of agriculture, championed by local food movements and food sovereignty coalitions across the world.
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