Spatial productive circuit and circles of cooperation of specialty coffee: analyze of fair trade, organic and gourmet in Brazil

• Grant number: 14/09376-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2014
• End date: May 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Samuel Frederico
• Grantee: Marcela Barone
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/01952-0 - Globalization and geographic scale: the insertion of Brazilian small-scale producers in the international specialty coffee market, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

After deregulation of the coffee market, since the 1990s, and the subsequent international coffee crisis, many Brasilian coffee growers have sought to insert in the specialty coffee market as a way to add value to their products. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to analyze the spatial productive circuit and circles of cooperation in the production of specialty coffee in Brazil, mainly fair trade, organic and gourmet. For this, we analyze three relevant geographic situation located in the South of Minas Gerais: Cooperativa dos Produtores de Café Especial de Boa Esperança, Cooperativa dos Agricultores Familiares de Poço Fundo e a Associação dos Produtores de Café da Mantiqueira. It aims to examine if the insertion in the spatial productive circuit these three types of specialty coffees provide greater autonomy and identity for smallholders, iders compared with the production of commodity coffee. In general, we seek to understand whether the production of specialty coffees or not as a kind of anticommodity. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BARONE, Marcela. Specialty coffee and jump of scales: analysis of the spatial productive circuit and circles of cooperation of specialty coffee in Southern Minas Gerais. 2017. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas. Rio Claro Rio Claro.