Book excerpt: Ch. 1. Poverty in India and value chains -- ch. 2. Retail winners and losers - the impact of organised retailing -- ch. 3. Inclusive value chains in fresh fruit and vegetables. Case study 1 : Namdhari Fresh Limited / BN Dhananjaya and A. Umesh Rao. Case study 2 : ITC Choupal Fresh / Rewa Shankar Misra. Case study 3 : INFAM in Wayanad, Kerala / Jacob D. Vakkayil. Case study 4 : Spencer's Retail / Sukhpal Singh -- ch. 4. Inclusive value chains in commodity crops. Case study 5 : Contract farming of potatoes : an attempt to include poor farmers in the value chain / Braja S. Mishra. Case study 6 : Basmati Rice and Kohinoor Foods Limited / Anup Kumar Singh. Case study 7 : Agrocel Industries / Anamika Purohit. Case study 8 : bioRe Organic Cotton / Rajeev Baruah -- ch. 5. Inclusive value chains in fisheries, honey, coffee and poultry. Case study 9 : Falcon Marine Exports / Rajeev Roy. Case study 10 : Honey in Muzaffarpur / Ashok Kumar. Case study 11 : Fairtrade and organic coffee / Priti Rao. Case study 12 : Small-holder broiler farming in Kesla / Anish Kumar -- ch. 6. Inclusive value chains in non-food artisan products. Case study 13 : ITC Limited and the Agarbatti Industry / Nagendra Nath Sharma. Case study 14 : Operation Mojari / Vipin Sharma and Mallika Ahluwalia -- ch. 7. What do the case studies tell us? Lessons for the future.