Peter Robbins (author)

In 2014 Peter made a contribution to ideas in Neuroscience - Dirty Walls: An evolutionary theory of the dream function, which was published in the International Journal of Dream Research[2]

Commodity exchanges and smallholders in Africa (International Institute for Environment and Development/ Sustainable Food Lab – 2011)

He was the founder member of the London Equality Group - an organisation which campaigns for the reduction of wealth and income inequality in London [1] in 2010 and served as Chair of My Fair London until 2013.

Supply-side measures for raising low farm-gate prices of tropical beverage crops (South Centre – 2006)

Agricultural commodities, trade and sustainable development (IIED and ICTSD 2005)

Advice manual for the organisation of collective marketing activities by small-scale farmers (Natural Resources Institute – 2004)

Stolen Fruit: The tropical commodities disaster (Zed Books – 2003)

Information for agricultural and rural development in ACP countries: emerging stakeholders, new media and priority themes (Technical Centre for Agriculture – 2001)

Review of market information systems in Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana and Zimbabwe (Technical Centre for Agriculture – 2000)

Design of market information systems for small-scale producers and traders in three districts of Uganda (Technical Centre for Agriculture – 2000)

Review of the impact of globalisation on the agricultural sectors and rural communities of ACP countries (Technical Centre for Agriculture – 1999)

Tropical Commodities and their Markets (Kogan Page – 1995)

A Framework for Macroeconomic Policy in South Africa – Making Democracy Work (Centre for Development Studies – South Africa – 1993)

Gold and Post-Apartheid South Africa – (Review of African Political Economy – Vol. 19 No.51 – 1991)

Sanctioning Apartheid (Africa World Press Inc. – 1991)

The Sanctions Report (The Commonwealth Secretariat – Penguin Books – 1990)

He was a founder member and Chair of the World Gold Commission from 1988 to 1995. This anti-apartheid pressure group was successful in curtailing the import of newly mined South African gold into the United States, Italy and Britain.

After Apartheid – Renewal of the South African Economy (University of York and John Currey – 1988)

Guide to Non-Ferrous Metals and their Markets – (Kogan Page – 1979, 1980 and 1982)

Guide to Precious Metals and their Markets – (Kogan Page – 1979)

In 1971 he brought together specialist British metal traders to form the Minor Metals Trade Association.

Peter Robbins (born 1946) is a British author whose published works include Stolen Fruit and a range of specialist books on related topics including precious metals markets, tropical commodity markets, trade sanctions, access to market information, and on support for rural communities.