Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain
This paper is based on a case study of one sector - horticulture - drawing on the
specific examples of fruit exports from Chile and South Africa to the United Kingdom. It uses the horticultural value chain to explore inter-connected employment, social risks, and social protection for informal workers in the sector. Horticulture has rapidly expanded through the process of globalisation.
Technological innovation in the sector has facilitated the year round rotation of exports from developing and developed countries to meet changing global consumption patterns. The distribution segment of this value chain is highly concentrated and capital intensive. Increasingly, traditional wholesale markets in
the sector are being replaced by integrated value chains dominated by large supermarkets. Yet the production end is very heterogeneous, with a large number of fragmented producers supplying high quality produce at different points of the year. Many of the risks arising from agricultural production and competitive global markets are born by these producers. The only buffer they have within the chain is the flexible use of informal labour.
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. Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain. Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, (0216), . The World Bank, 2002. . (2002). Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain. Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, (0216), . . "Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain." Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, The World Bank, 2002, .. "Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain." Social Protection Discussion Paper Series , no. 0216 (2002). 2002, 'Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain', Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, (0216), . , 'Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain' (2002) Social Protection Discussion Paper Series . Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain. Social Protection Discussion Paper Series. 2002(0216). . Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain. Social Protection Discussion Paper Series. 2002, (0216), .
