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Peter D. Little is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Environmental Science, Social Sciences, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work primarily focuses on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, with additional contributions to Sociology and Political Science, Food Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The main topics of their research include Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Transboundary Water Resource Management, Animal Diversity and Health Studies, Agriculture, Land Use, and Rural Development, as well as Global trade and economics, Agriculture and Rural Development Research, and Global trade, sustainability, and social impact.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Nomadic Peoples, African Affairs, Global Food Security, Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE, and Journal of Agrarian Change.

Their recent papers include:

  • Trusting in Somalia's stateless money: The persistence of the Somali shilling, 2020, African Affairs
  • Increased climate variability and sedentarization in Tanzania: Health and nutrition implications on pastoral communities of Mvomero and Handeni districts, Tanzania, 2021, Global Food Security
  • Informal trade in livestock and livestock products, 2020, Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE
  • Introduction: Rethinking Resilience in the Context of East African Pastoralism, 2021, Nomadic Peoples
  • The afterlife of living under contract, an epilogue, 2021, Journal of Agrarian Change

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter D. Little include:

  • Carrie Ripkey
  • Paula Domínguez-Salas
  • Joyce Kinabo
  • Akwilina Wendelin Mwanri
  • Amy Girard

Best Publications

  • Living Under Contract : Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Peter D. Little;Michael Watts

  • Poverty Traps and Natural Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras

    Michael R. Carter;Peter D. Little;Tewodaj Mogues;Workneh Negatu

  • Avoiding disaster: diversification and risk management among East African herders

    Peter D. Little;Kevin Smith;Barbara A. Cellarius;D. Layne Coppock

  • Somalia: Economy without State

    Peter D. Little

  • Life under contract: contract farming, agrarian restructuring, and flexible accumulation.

    M. J. Watts;P. D. Little

  • Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya

    Winnie K Luseno;John G McPeak;Christopher B Barrett;Peter D Little

  • The Elusive Granary: Herder, Farmer, and State in Northern Kenya

    Peter D. Little

  • Challenging orthodoxies: Understanding poverty in pastoral areas of East Africa

    Peter D. Little;John G McPeak;Christopher B Barrett;Patti Kristjanson

  • ‘Moving in place’: Drought and poverty dynamics in South Wollo, Ethiopia

    Peter D. Little;M. Priscilla Stone;Tewodaj Mogues;A. Peter Castro

  • Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy: Livelihoods in Pastoralist Communities

    John G. McPeak;Peter D. Little;Cheryl R. Doss

  • The moral economy of the contract.

    R. A. Clapp;P. D. Little;M. J. Watts

  • Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: Introduction to a special issue

    Christopher B. Barrett;Michael R. Carter;Peter D. Little

  • Contract farming and the development question.

    P. D. Little;M. J. Watts

  • Livestock Pricing in the Northern Kenyan Rangelands

    Christopher B. Barrett;Francis Chabari;DeeVon Bailey;Peter D. Little

  • Contract farming in the shadow of competitive markets: the experience of Kenyan horticulture.

    S. M. Jaffee;P. D. Little;M. J. Watts

  • Absentee herd owners and part-time pastoralists: the political economy of resource use in northern Kenya

    Peter D. Little

  • Lands At Risk In The Third World: Local-level Perspectives

    Peter D. Little

  • Discourse, politics, and the development process: reflections on Escobar's 'anthropology and the development encounter'

    Peter D. Little;Michael Painter

  • Livestock Markets and Risk Management Among East African Pastoralists: A Review and Research Agenda

    DeeVon Bailey;Christopher B. Barrett;Peter D. Little;Kevin Smith

  • Shocks, Sensitivity and Resilience: Tracking the Economic Impacts of Environmental Disaster on Assets in Ethiopia and Honduras

    Michael R. Carter;Peter D. Little;Tewodaj Mogues;Workneh Negatu

  • Risk and social change in an African rural economy

    John G. McPeak;Peter D. Little;Cheryl R. Doss

  • The Elusive Granary: Herder, Farmer, and State in Northern Kenya

    Jan Lindstrom;Peter D. Little

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Watts
Michael Watts Brunel University London
Catherine Dolan
Catherine Dolan School of Oriental and African Studies

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