Author(s):
Robert N. Gwynne* - University of Birmingham
Abstract:
This paper explores the theme of governance as it relates to the evolution of global commodity chains in agro-industry and their incorporation of wine firms in Chile's Colchagua Valley. The paper specifically examines the upstream and downstream relationships of key wine firms in a valley in which vineyard planting and wine production has grown rapidly over the past fifteen years in order to supply export markets. The paper assesses how this growth of wine exports has impacted upon local development and, in particular, local supply relationships and the behaviour of land and labour markets.
