The specialty coffees in the Cerrado Mineiro: the productive spatial circuit and the cooperation circles in the municipality of Patrocínio, MG

Author(s)

Rodrigo Cavalcanti Nascimento

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências
• Defense date: 2014-11-08

Examining board members

Samuel Frederico; Vicente Eudes Lemos Alves; Mirlei Fachini Vicente Pereira

• Advisor: Samuel Frederico

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the productive spatial circuit of the small producers in the municipality of Patrocínio/MG. It is assumed that the production of fair trade coffee can mitigate the vulnerability that coffee commodity producers are heavily subjected. However, as large companies of roasting and grinding have appropriate fair trade market, mainly, from the last decade, this has behaved again as a commodity. Originally, production of fair trade took on characteristics of a species of anticommodity, due to the qualitative differentiation of product and the privileged access to certain market niches. However, the standardization established by the certification companies have promoted a recommoditization of production, by allowing large companies trading and roasting replace suppliers, ending with the identity of the producers. This research proposes to examine, in the case of small producers of the municipality of Patrocinio (MG), linked to the Associação dos Pequenos Produtores do Cerrado (APPCER), as the production of fair trade coffee, together with FLO-Cert, promotes or is not a de-commoditization of coffee production, allowing alternative forms of integration of small producers in the national and international markets (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/16686-3 - The organic coffe in the Cerrado Mineiro: The productive spatial circuit and the cooperation circles in the municipality of Patrocinio/MG.
• Grantee: Rodrigo Cavalcanti Do Nascimento
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master