Upgrading primary production: A global commodity chain approach

Global commodity chain (GCC) analysis has been concerned mainly with examining power relations in global manufacturing industries, although it has been preoccupied increasingly by the question of how developing country (DC) producers can upgrade. This paper extends GCC analysis to traditional primary commodities. where international traders exercise the driving role, and suggests a new agenda Tor their upgrading in DCs. based upon public action. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.