Value Chain Struggles

Adopting a ‘global value chain’ approach, <i>Value Chain Struggles</i> 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. <ul> <li>Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and coffee producers</li> <li>Takes the reader into the lives of growers in Southern India who are struggling with issues of value chain restructuring</li> <li>Reveals the ways that the restructuring triggers a series of political and economic struggles across a range of economic, social, and environmental arenas</li> <li>Puts into perspective claims about the impacts of recent changes to global trading relations on rural producers in developing countries</li> </ul>