Productive spacial circuit of organic coffee and territorial vulnerability: an analysis of smalholder Poço Fundo, MG

• Grant number: 11/08984-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2011
• End date: August 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Samuel Frederico
• Grantee: Anna Paula Datri Rodriguez
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research analyze the productive spatial circuit and the cooperation circles of the organic coffee of the small producers from Poço Fundo/MG city. The production is configured as a kind of antcommodity, which has special rates and specific ways of marketing, with high qualitative and productive differentiation with respect to the traditional coffee production. From its unique features we will be analyzed which implications of organic agriculture have in the reduction of the social, economical and territorial vulnerability degree that it is involved. Therefore, we will be examined its consequences related to the permanency of small and medium farmers in the countryside. Thus, we will identify the main producing areas of organic coffee in the Brazilian territory, which will be mapped, as well as deepen the analyses with respect to the organization of the productive spatial circuit of the organic coffee from Poço Fundo/MG city. (AU)