Peter Little

Peter D. Little is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Global Development Studies Program, Emory University, USA. He has conducted studies of political ecology, pastoralism, poverty and inequality, informal trade, contract farming, and development in Africa, especially Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia. Dr Little is the author of more than 100 journal articles/book chapters; five books, including 'Economic and Political Reform in Africa: Anthropological Perspectives' (Indiana), and 'Somalia: Economy without State' (Indiana/James Currey); and the co-editor of seven books, including 'Living under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa' (with Michael Watts).