Mindi Schneider

Mindi Schneider is a development sociologist with specialization in the political economy of development, environmental sociology and political ecology, and international agriculture and rural development. She holds a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University, an MS in Agronomy, and a BS in Horticulture from the University of Nebraska. She was director of the Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies program at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. Mindi is a leader of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative, a global network of academics, activists, and artists concerned with capitalist transformations in the countryside in global and long-historical perspective.She is the founder and Editor of the Initiative’s flagship, open-access journal, Commodity Frontiers.