Adam Sneyd, University of Guelph
Associate Professor
Guelph, Ontario
asneyd@uoguelph.ca
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(519) 824-4120 ext. 53568
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Dr. Sneyd conducts research on the political economy of commodities. He is currently under contract with Polity Press to write a book on the geopolitics of cotton for Polity’s resources series. This work moves Sneyd’s political economy focus beyond Africa. His 2011 book in Palgrave Macmillan’s in...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Sneyd conducts research on the political economy of commodities. He is currently under contract with Polity Press to write a book on the geopolitics of cotton for Polity’s resources series. This work moves Sneyd’s political economy focus beyond Africa. His 2011 book in Palgrave Macmillan’s international political economy series analyzed how globalization might be altering the linkages between cotton production and poverty across Africa south of the Sahara. Sneyd continues to be interested in learning more about how corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts targeting African commodities might be fostering poverty reduction.
Sneyd has conducted field research on CSR for cotton in Tanzania, and on CSR in Cameroon’s timber sector. He is a political economist driven to ask questions about ‘real’ African development challenges, and to pursue country-level research to arrive at answers to these questions. In 2012, Sneyd held an Africa Initiative research grant. This funding enabled him to analyze perspectives on the food security ‘footprint’ of emerging powers such as Brazil and China in Cameroon. He has contributed opinion pieces related to this work to the Initiative’s Africa Portal.
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Sneyd has conducted field research on CSR for cotton in Tanzania, and on CSR in Cameroon’s timber sector. He is a political economist driven to ask questions about ‘real’ African development challenges, and to pursue country-level research to arrive at answers to these questions. In 2012, Sneyd held an Africa Initiative research grant. This funding enabled him to analyze perspectives on the food security ‘footprint’ of emerging powers such as Brazil and China in Cameroon. He has contributed opinion pieces related to this work to the Initiative’s Africa Portal.
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