Professor, Geography and GIS, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

bassett@illinois.edu

B.A. English, Tufts University, 1976
M.A. (1979) and PhD (1984) Geography, University of California at Berkeley.

Emphasis 

Food Systems

• Production
• Social/Economic
• Legal/Policy

Specifically, Dr. Bassett’s primary research/outreach activites related to IFSI include:

• Field research in West Africa on agricultural diversification among smallholders and its food security implications;
• Access to land by mobile pastoralists and smallholder farmers planting tree crop
• Agricultural value chains, public-private partnerships, and smallholder incomes
• The Green Revolution for Africa
• Longitudinal study of smallhoder farming systems in northern Cote d’Ivoire with emphasis on the political economy of agrarian change; agricultural history; food crops,cash crops (cotton, cashews), and food security, land tenure reform, landuse and land cover change, and political ecology of environmental change.

Countries and regions of collaborations

West Africa

Publication highlights

Bassett,T. (2014) Capturing the Margins: World Market Prices and Cotton Farmer Incomes in West Africa. World Development 59: 408-21.

Bassett, T.J., Fogelman, C. (2013) Deja Vu or Something New? The Adaptation Concept in the Climate Change Literature. Geoforum 48: 42-53.

Bassett, T. and Winter-Nelson A. (2010) The Atlas of World Hunger (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press).

Bassett,T. (2010) Slim pickings: Fairtrade cotton in West Africa. Geoforum 41(1): 44-55.

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