Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles
investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and
tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South
India.
- Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and coffee
producers
- Takes the reader into the lives of growers in Southern India who are
struggling with issues of value chain restructuring
- Reveals the ways that the restructuring triggers a series of political
and economic struggles across a range of economic, social, and
environmental arenas
- Puts into perspective claims about the impacts of recent changes to
global trading relations on rural producers in developing countries