Value Chain Upgrading Strategies for Integration of Indian Small Coffee Growers in Global Coffee Value Chain

Measuring China’s Domestic Technological Upgrading in the Global Value Chain

Less developed countries (LDCs) usually undertake technology-poor slices in the spatial hierarchy of global value chain (GVC). This paper proposes a measure for domestic technological contents (DTC) for LDCs in the GVC, and calculates the DTCs for China as a whole and Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces separately. Two findings emerge from the calculation: the DTC indexes of China and Jiangsu kept ...

Coffee growers feel the heat

Coffee has for several decades now been a flagship product of the efforts to make trade with the developing world fair and to ensure that smallholder producers in tropical countries can make a reasonable living from the produce they export to the more affluent parts of the world. Now coffee is also set to become a prime example of how climate change disrupts agricultural production and endanger...

Data Integration for the Media Value Chain

With the switch from analog to digital technology the entire process of production, distribution, and archival of a film and tv program large amounts of data are created. Besides recorded and processed audiovisual information, in each single step of the production process and furthermore throughout the entire media value chain new metadata is created, administrated, and put into relation with a...

Value chain strategies in developing countries

“Food production and distribution in South Africa, as in most other countries, is undergoing major structural changes caused by changing and diverse consumer demands, new technologies (e.g. bioand information technologies), new product characteristics, changing firm sizes and more exposure to world markets... the structural realignment in agriculture and the formation of new supply chains are p...

Ugandan Coffee Supply Chain Risk assessment