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 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]
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 previously wrote 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]
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. (ISBN978-1-032-44372-0)
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. (ISBN978-1-13-818595-1)
McCusker, B., W.G. Moseley and M. Ramutsindela. 2015. Land Reform in South Africa: An Uneven Transformation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (ISBN978-1-4422-0716-5)
Fouberg, E. and W.G. Moseley. 2015. Understanding World Regional Geography. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/Blackwell. (ISBN978-0-471-73517-5)
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. (ISBN978-1-4051-8931-6).
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. (ISBN978-0-89680-260-5).
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. (ISBN978-1-4051-4922-8).
