Timothy A. Wise is an investigative journalist and academic researcher covering food, agriculture, public health, the environment and international development. is a senior research fellow at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute, where he founded and directed its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. Over the past 30 years, his writing has appeared in dozens of news outlets, including The Guardian, Wired,The Conversation, American Prospect, and many outlets across the Global South. 

His scholarly work has been published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Washington Office on Latin America, the The Journal of Peasant Studies, Humanitarian Affairs and many other academic publications. 

Tim has served as a Senior Advisor at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and at the Small Planet Institute, where he directed its Land and Food Rights Program from 2016-2020. He formerly directed the U.S.-based aid agency Grassroots International.

He is the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press, 2019). His recent work has focused on the failures of the Gates-funded Green Revolution for Africa and Mexico’s defense of its food sovereignty with its policies to restrict the consumption of genetically modified corn and glyphosate. 

He is also coauthor and editor of  Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico (2003), an edited book exploring Mexico’s tumultuous experience under the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Twitter: @TimothyAWise
Email: tim.wise@tufts.edu