Peter Gibbon

PhD BA, Social Sciences
Senior Researcher, research unit on Global economy, regulation and development
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Personal CV

Expertise

Economic sociology; global value chains; standards and trade; Africa in the international trading system.

Selected projects and programmes

Large-scale farming in Africa, with particular reference to labour management systems (2010- );

Standards and Agro-Food Exports (SAFE) – Identifying challenges and outcomes for developing countries: Research and capacity building programme in collaboration with Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania; funded by Danida's research arm (FFU) (2005-2009), www.diis.dk/safe.

Africa, Value Chains and the Global Economy: research programme examining global value chains for six commodities; focus on governance, upgrading, and how ‘global buyers’ set entry barriers in trade; funded by the Social Science Research Council of Denmark (FSE) (1999-2003).

Selected publications

Peter Gibbon (ed.) (2011). Governing through standards: Origins, drivers and limitations. Palgrave, London. (with Stefano Ponte and Jakob Vestergaard)

Peter Gibbon (ed.) (2010). 2010 Global agro-food trade and standards. Challenges for Africa. Palgrave, London (with Stefano Ponte and Evelyne Lazaro)

Peter Gibbon (ed.) (2008). The governance of global value chains, special edition of Economy and Society Vol. 37 No. 3 (with Jennifer Bair and Stefano Ponte)

Peter Gibbon (2005) Trading down? Africa, value-chains and global capitalism, (Temple University Press, Philadelphia (with Stefano Ponte)

Selected commissioned work

‘Pro-poor export growth: What works, when and where?’, for Danida ReCom programme (2011).

Study on Product Carbon Footprint labeling and its impact on trade, for OECD (2009).

Study on current international food and fuel price developments, for Common Fund for Commodities (2008).

Study on Export Processing Zones as an economic development strategy, for Danish Foreign Ministry (2008).

Study on ‘The Economic Effect of a ban on certification of organic products imported to the UK by Air’, for International Trade Centre (2007).

Study on EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements, for Danish Foreign Ministry (2007).

Participation in seven Danida programme missions (Design, Appraisal, Review and Evaluation), 2002-11.

Selected research related activities

Member, editorial advisory board, Journal of Agrarian Change

Resource person since 2001, African Clothing and Footwear Network, http://acfrn.uonbi.ac.ke.

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