Philip McMichael collaborated with UNRISD on the flagship report
Combating Poverty and Inequality (2010) for which he wrote a background
thematic paper,
Global Food Crisis: Causes and Prospects for Policy Alternatives. At the time of this collaboration, McMichael was International Professor at the
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, United States.
His research interests include community development,
development sociology,
ecology,
food system and/or policy,
international agriculture,
international development,
sustainable agriculture and
sustainable development. His University research programme follows world political-economic history, focusing on food and agricultural systems, and developing alternative comparative-historical methods.