COFFEE TERRITORIALIZATION IN CAPARAÓ CAPIXABA

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2023.e22006

Keywords:

Apoderamento, Identidade, Trabalho, Paisagem, Cafeicultura

Abstract

Brazil has several regions shaped by the insertion of the coffee economy, an arrangement that highlights the coffee production chain as a structuring element of the territory. This article aims to characterize the territorialization of the coffee production chain in the Caparaó Capixaba region. The qualitative, exploratory, descriptive, and ethnographic research is divided into three stages: bibliographic, fieldwork and interviews. The field research lasted from November 2020 to January 2021. The interviews, conducted online, occurred between September and November 2021. The respondents were 15 coffee producers in the municipalities of Iúna and Irupi, in Caparaó Capixaba, Brazil. Consequently, the formation of Caparaó territoriality from the region's historic coffee culture is evident. Thus, the study increases the understanding of the production, consumption, and commercialization of the region's coffee. Some essential factors considered are the appropriation of space by producers, resignification of practices and territory through work, reinforcement of local identity, formation of the coffee landscape and subsequent productive differentiation through the
focus on specialty coffees. Finally, visibility is given to coffee growers' protagonism in a region neglected in recent decades due to low quantitative productivity but which boasts expressive results in agroecological, family and specialty coffee production. 


Keywords: Appropriation. Identity. Work. Landscape Coffee Production.

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Author Biographies

  • Beatriz Carvalho Tavares, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba (PR), Brazil

    PhD student in Geography at the Federal University of Paraná. Professor of Basic, Technical and Technological Education in Gastronomy at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Farroupilha.

  • Marcello de Barros Tomé Machado, Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi (RJ), Brazil

    PhD in Geography from the Fluminense Federal University. Professor at the School of Tourism and Hospitality and the Postgraduate Program in Tourism at the Fluminense Federal University.

  • Vander Valduga, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba (PR), Brazil

    PhD in Geography from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Professor at the School of Tourism and the Postgraduate Programs in Tourism and Geography at the Federal University of Paraná.

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Published

2023-04-25

Issue

Vol. 22 (2023)

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COFFEE TERRITORIALIZATION IN CAPARAÓ CAPIXABA. (2023). Mercator, 22. https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2023.e22006