Education: PhD, Queens University

Career: Charles Mather is Associate Professor in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. His research and teaching interests include agri-food restructuring, food economy, rural livelihoods and global commodity chains. His specific focus is citrus exports after deregulation, and during 2001 and 2002 he spent his sabbatical researching aspects of the ‘re-regulation’ of this crop using a global commodity chain framework. He is also interested in domestic commodity chains and transformations in the conditions of farm workers in South Africa. Charles Mather is a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal African Studies (see url below).

Publications include: The Changing Face of Land Reform in Post Apartheid South Africa 2002; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits, 2050 Johannesburg, South Africa; Tel: +27 (0)11 717-6503; Fax: +27 (0)11 403-7281; Email: matherc@geoarc.wits.ac.za ; Website: http://www.wits.ac.za/Science/Geography/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00020184.asp/ .