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Timothy Wise

Timothy A. Wise is a Senior Researcher on the Land and Food Rights Program at Small Planet Institute and a researcher at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.

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	Views Sunday, December 10, 2017 WTO Summit to Ignore Price Crisis, Agricultural Dumping Crops are in across the U.S. farm belt, with record harvests filling farmers’ silos with grain and their hearts with pride. Yet persistent and punishingly low prices for those crops leave them no better off for their efforts. Net farm income this year is about half what it was in 2013. U.S. farmers... Read more
	Views Sunday, November 06, 2016 Africa Still in the Crosshairs as Land Grabs Intensify On October 12, the government of Mozambique quietly announced that it would close its Agriculture Promotion Centre (CEPAGRI), the agency created in 2006 to promote large-scale foreign investment in the country’s agricultural sector. In a terse statement , government spokesman Mouzinho Saide gave no... Read more
	Views Wednesday, December 16, 2015 WTO: Dumping Responsibility on Third World Farmers Yet Again On the eve of their Nairobi ministerial, WTO members should remember it is not food procurement policies in developing countries like India but unfair US agricultural subsidies which threaten free trade and farmer livelihoods across the world On December 15, the world’s trade ministers will gather... Read more
	Views Thursday, September 15, 2011 US Trade Policy: Moving Backwards in the 21st Century Three years into the Obama Administration, progressives have no shortage of complaints about the president’s economic policies, which seem very much at odds with Candidate Obama’s soaring rhetoric. Economic policies have been centrist at best. Unfortunately, the President’s trade policies may be further to the right than that. He is now counting primarily on Republican votes to push three Bush-era trade agreements, with Korea, Colombia, and Panama. Read more
	Views Monday, September 12, 2011 The False Promise of Obama's Trade Deals It is bad enough that President Obama is reversing his campaign pledge and supporting Bush-era trade deals with Korea, Colombia and Panama. Starting this week in Chicago, the US will be hosting the first major trade negotiations since the "Battle in Seattle" World Trade Organisation talks came here in 1999. Read more
	Views Tuesday, May 03, 2011 Good News on the Right to Food Those of us advocating for changes in global and national policies on food and agriculture just got some good news. The UN Human Rights Council just renewed for another three years the mandate of Olivier De Schutter as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Read more
	Views Friday, March 05, 2010 The True Cost of Cheap Food Cheap food causes hunger. Read more