Robin Broad

Dr. Robin Broad, Professor of International Development, established and heads SIS’s International Development Program’s unique curricular offerings on rethinking globalization and development and on environment and development with a focus on social, environmental, and economic accountability. She came to AU with a wide range of professional experiences – from international economist in the US Treasury Department and US Congress to work with civil-society organizations in the Philippines and El Salvador.

Latest book: The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country From Corporate Greed. (Beacon Press, March 2021) The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country’s main water source.

Lempa River

Water is life: Can we protect it?

Robin Broad, John Cavanagh, Foreign Policy In Focus

The irony that Texas, the state built on fossil fuels, was completely unprepared for extreme weather disasters shouldn’t be lost on anyone.

March 25, 2021

Society

For farmers everywhere, small is (still) beautiful

Robin Broad, YES! magazine

There is battle raging across the world over who can better feed its people: small-scale farmers practicing sustainable agriculture, or giant agribusinesses using chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

January 18, 2012

Society

Cornerstones of a Rooted Economy

Robin Broad, YES! magazine

We want to know: Is an alternative future possible—one rooted in small fishers, small farmers, and the teeming biodiversity of the islands? For starters we want to know: Can small fishers become a pillar of a new economy as this country begins to run out of oil and gas?

April 27, 2011

Yes, there is an alternative

Robin Broad, YES! magazine

Currently, as financial markets stagnate and food prices swing wildly and the environment is under siege, more and more people, communities, and nations are taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to a volatile global economy.

December 21, 2010

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