Adam Sneyd is an Associate Professor with the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. He has authored two books on the politics of cotton: Governing Cotton: Globalization and Poverty in Africa (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) and Cotton (Polity Press, 2016). More broadly, Adam's research focuses on the global politics of commodities, and emphasizes food, resource and development challenges in African contexts. He is currently studying the politics associated with the use of trendy buzzwords in development debates, and is writing a book about development politics.