The West African food crisis of 2008 had various causes: rising energy costs, increasing use of grain for ethanol production, shifting diets linked to rapid urbanization, export bans, and globalization and economic dependence on western countries. It's that last pressure on which this year's Ridgley Geography lecturer at ISU focuses.
William Moseley works at Macalester College. He tracks rice markets.
William Moseley is this year's Ridgley Geography lecturer at Illinois State University. Moseley's recent entry on “Dependency Theory,” will soon be published in the International Encyclopedia of Geography. He also serves as the associate editor of the journal Food Policy and teaches at Macalester College in Minnesota.