Value Chain Struggles
Institutions and Governance in the Plantation Districts of South India
RGS-IBG Book Series
1. Edition March 2009
320 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
2. Re-inserting Place and Institutions within Global Value ChainAnalysis
3. How to Make a (South Indian) Cup of Tea or Coffee
4. The Institutional Environment of South Indian Tea and CoffeeIndustries
5. Struggles Over Labor and Livelihoods
6. Struggles over Environmental Governance in the Coffee Forestsof Kodagu
7. Smallholder Engagement in Global Value Chains: Initiatives inthe Nilgiris
8. Making a Living in the Global Economy: InstitutionalEnvironments and Value Chain Upgrading
9. Conclusion: What we Brewed
this book offers a wonderfully detailed case study of tea and
coffee cultivation in South India - in all its multi-scalar
institutional and regulatory contexts - and yet also speaks
powerfully to a variety of wider theoretical issues concerning
global value chains, global private regulation, and ethical and
sustainable production schemes."
-Neil Coe, University of Manchester
"This book gets to the roots of new trading arrangements in the
coffee and tea sectors which affect the lives of struggling growers
in South India. Adoption of a meaningful global value chain
approach that links production, trade and consumption is the unique
feature of this book. Arrays of issues including history,
geography, politics and culture at local, regional and national
levels have been covered. It is certainly a valuable, scholarly and
policy contribution."
-P. G. Chengappa, Vice Chancellor, University
of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India
development and environmental issues across various Asian
countries. He completed his PhD with a study of the Indonesian
coffee industry, has authored twelve refereed publications, and has
worked as a consultant to various international development
agencies. Dr Neilson is currently employed as a post-doctoral
research fellow in geography at the University of Sydney,
Australia.
Bill Pritchard is an Economic Geographer whose research
has focused on global change in agriculture, food and rural places.
He has authored two books, edited four others, and written more
than forty refereed publications. He is an active member and former
convener of the Australia & New Zealand Agri-Food Research
Network, a member of the Australian Research Council Research
Network on Spatially Integrated Social Sciences, and Steering
Committee Member of the International Geographical Union Commission
on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces.
