Glenn Stone's work centers on cultural and political aspects of agriculture. A primary focus in recent years has been on agri- biotechnology, with extensive fieldwork in southern India. Publications include Agricultural Deskilling and the Spread of Genetically Modified Cotton in Warangal, featured in Salon.com. Another focus has been on agricultural intensification (e.g., Non-Boserupian Ecology and Agricultural Risk, American Anthrop. 1999).

Peter Benson studies ethnographic and public health dimensions of agriculture in Latin America and the U.S. A recent book, Broccoli and Desire, and an article, Something Better, track the commodity chain of the global broccoli trade to see how health driven food demands impact smallholder farmers. Peter is completing a book on the tobacco industry and the social management of smoking, seen from the perspective of North Carolina's rural tobacco belt.

Geoff Childs is conducting research on a changing economic paradigm in rural Tibet in which agriculture is becoming more mechanized and households are becoming increasingly dependent on non-farm sources of income. An article on this topic is forthcoming in Asian Affairs.

John Bowen has studied rice cultivation in several regions of Indonesia, and much of his work in Aceh concerns the ritual and religious bases for agriculture".

Carolyn Lesorogol wrote a recent dissertation on the politics of land privatization among Kenyan pastoralists.