Tropical commodity chains, forward integration strategies and international inequality: Coffee, cocoa and tea

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 701-734

  Talbot, John M ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodity chain; Development; Forward integration; Primary processing; Transnational corporations; Tropical beverages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036875016     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0969229022000021862     Document Type: Article

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