Stephen Brush was trained as an anthropologist and is Professor in the
Department of Human and Community Development at the University of
California, Davis. At Davis, he serves as the Master Adviser
for International Agricultural Development. He was Senior Scientist at the
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute in Rome, 1994-1995, where he
designed a global program for on-farm conservation of crop genetic
resources. He was on the facu...
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Stephen Brush was trained as an anthropologist and is Professor in the
Department of Human and Community Development at the University of
California, Davis. At Davis, he serves as the Master Adviser
for International Agricultural Development. He was Senior Scientist at the
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute in Rome, 1994-1995, where he
designed a global program for on-farm conservation of crop genetic
resources. He was on the faculty of College of William and Mary, 1973-1984
and served as Staff Associate and then Director of the Anthropology Program
at the National Science Foundation, 1980-1983. His research concerns
agricultural ecology and the conservation of crop genetic resources. Brush
has done field work on these topics in Peru (1970-1986), Turkey (1990-1994),
and Mexico (1995-). He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Office
of Technology Assessment, the United Nations Development Programme, the Food
and Agricultural Organization of the UN and UNESCO.
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