Stephen Brush

Who is Stephen Brush?

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.