Philip Howard

Philip Howard
  • Professor
  • consolidation, concentration, power, sustainable food systems, visualization
  • Community Sustainability

WEBSITE

https://philhoward.net/

BIOGRAPHY

I am a member of International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, a professor at Michigan State University, and the author of Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 and 2021). I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Community, Food and Agriculture.

My work is unified by three main questions, (1) what changes are occurring? (2) what are the impacts of these changes on communities? (3) what can communities do to respond positively to these changes?

AREA OF EXPERTISE

  • characterizing consolidation in the food system, particularly in the rapidly growing organic sector
  • exploring inequalities in 'food environments' and their potential relationships with health outcomes
  • studying consumer interest in 'ecolabels' as a potential strategy for improving the livelihoods of small- and medium-scale farmers