Robert Paarlberg

Robert L. Paarlberg is a professor at Wellesley College and Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.

His research focuses on the international agricultural and environmental policy, regulation of modern technology, including biotechnology.

Selected works

• Fixing Farm Trade, Council on Foreign Relation
• Food Trade and Foreign Policy, Cornell University Press
• Countrysides at Risk, Overseas Development Council
• Leadership Abroad Begins at Home, Brookings
• Policy Reform in American Agriculture, Chicago University Press (with David Orden and Terry Roe)
• The Politics of Precaution, Johns Hopkins
• Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa, Harvard University Press (March 2008)
• Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

Personal life

Robert Paarlberg is the son of academic and public servant Don Paarlberg.

References

• Biography at Wellesley College
• Biogram at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs