John Wilkinson, (Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Liverpool), is Full Professor at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research focuses on the major transformations in the global agrifood system and their impact for small farming and rural development. He has been a consultant to the OECD, FAO, BID, CEPAL, and the European Commission, together with Ministries and Financial Institutions in Brazil and the Southern Cone, and has also carried out research for international ONGs, OXFAM and ACTIONAID among others.
Wilkinson is the (co)author of several books, From Farming to Biotechnology; Fair Trade: the challenges of transforming globalization; and O Sabor da Origem (The Taste of Origin), and many articles in internationally recognized Journals. He has spent periods as an invited researcher to the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Paris, to the University of Santa Cruz, California, and to the European Commission. He was the coordinator of the FAO/CFS Report, Biofuels and Food Security in 2013. His latest publication, The Future of Food in the World, China, and Brazil is currently at press in Brazil
Wilkinson has published over 150 books, chapters, and articles in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French. In 2019, he was listed among the top 2% of researchers at Academia.edu. He has over seven thousand citations on Google Scholar.