Landscape transformations and territorialization processes in the Norte Pioneiro Paranaense and the Eje Cafetero Colombiano: the role of small coffee grower’s organizations in the production and marketing of specialty coffe and their interescal relation

• Grant number: 17/03517-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): January 01, 2018
• Effective date (End): June 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Messias Modesto dos Passos
• Grantee: Luisa Fernanda Durán Montes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/16828-4 - Limits, contradictions and potentialites of certifications and geographical indications in the global coffee value chain: case studies of Brazil, Colombia and Japan, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This research will be carried out in the Eje Cafetero - Colombia and Norte Pioneiro do Paraná - Brazil. These regions were objects of colonization processes, and today are landscapes and territories that seek other strategies to maintain coffee activity, and an alternative is the market share of specialty coffees. Currently, the two regions conserve, to a lesser extent, the planting, harvesting and export of coffee, which in the past represented the most relevant sector of the economy of each country, regions that still have a coffee importance, incorporation of new values in the production and serving a more specialized demand. The main objective of this research is to understand the transformations of the landscape and the processes of territorialization of the Norte Pioneiro Paranaense/Brazil and the Eje Cafetero/Colombia from the dynamics of the production and commercialization of the special coffees in the market and their interscalar relation (local, regional, national and international), for its analysis as an alternative of some organizations of small coffee growers against the production of coffee commodity. This study will be based on the analytic-dialectical method, so the reflection will be developed through two central concepts (landscape and territory) that are interrelated in the process of escalation/interscalar relationship, revealing the main power relations, the contradictory tensions between different actors, processes and scales of action present in the dynamics developed between the production, commercialization and consumption of specialty coffees. (AU)

Academic Publications

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

MONTES, Luisa Fernanda Durán. Landscape and territory: an analysis based on the production of specialty coffees in the Eje Cafetero Colombiano and in the Norte Pioneiro Paranense. 2021. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente Presidente Prudente.