Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value ChainStruggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangementsin the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communitiesof growers in South India.
* Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea andcoffee producers
* Takes the reader into the lives of growers in Southern Indiawho are struggling with issues of value chain restructuring
* Reveals the ways that the restructuring triggers a series ofpolitical and economic struggles across a range of economic,social, and environmental arenas
* Puts into perspective claims about the impacts of recentchanges to global trading relations on rural producers indeveloping countries