Angus Wright

Angus Wright is professor emeritus of environmental studies, California State University, Sacramento, and author of The Death of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma. Wright is also the co-author, with Wendy Wolford, of To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil, published by Food First! He has written numerous articles on a variety of topics centered around environmental history and the social and environmental consequences of agriculture and of property ownership in the Americas. Wright was one of the founders of the Environmental Studies program at California State University, Sacramento, where he taught from 1972-2005. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Michigan in 1976. He has done research in Mexico and Brazil with the support of Fulbright and Doherty Research grants. Wright has served as President and board member of the Pesticide Action Network North America and the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First!) and is a board member of The Land Institute. As a member of the Investigative Mechanism (an independent citizen review board) of the Inter-American Development Bank, he coordinated a study of Latin America's largest hydroelectric plant, Yacyreta. He continues to lecture frequently at universities around the United States. From 2005 through 2007 he will be working as a lead author on the International Agricultural Assessment of Science, Technology, and Development, sponsored by the United Nations, the World Bank, and a variety of other institutions and organizations.