Timothy A. Wise is a researcher and writer whose three decades of work have focused on agriculture, the environment, international trade, and the right to food.

He is an Investigative Journalist with U.S. Right to Know and a Senior Research Fellow at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute, where he founded and directed its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. He is also a Senior Advisor with the Small Planet Institute, where he directed the Land and Food Rights Program from 2016-2020. He was a Senior Advisor on the Future of Food at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy from 2000-2024. He previously served as executive director of the U.S.-based aid agency Grassroots International. He is the author of Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico, in addition to Eating Tomorrow. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tim is a frequent contributor in the media, with commentaries in Wired, Vice, InterPress Service, Truthdig, and other publications. View all media.

Wise on the title for his book, Eating Tomorrow

Invite Tim to speak: Tim is a regular speaker at universities and events, and he appears regularly in the media. Areas of expertise include:

  • Climate change and the future of food

  • Can we feed a growing population?

  • Agroecology vs. the Green Revolution in Africa

  • Land rights in the age of land-grabbing

  • US farm policy, agricultural dumping, and small-scale farmers

  • Mexican farmers under NAFTA

  • Farmers’ rights to seed sovereignty and the controversy over GMOs

  • Agribusiness vs. family farmers in the battle for the future of food