Geografia Econômica do Café

 Some steps are necessary to reach a Geographical Indication, let´s to show some: 1) Have a product or service that to be very specific and related with a region or area 2) To define by maps wich size and the area that the product will be protect 3) This product must has an evident dependece and history with natural facts or traditional facts with that society to be envolved 4) To begun the process it´s need a association or syndicate to be a reponsible by burocracy and after take care and to protect the product or service chosen.  5) It´s necessary have all the actors socioeconomics envolved, because the Geographical Indication doesn´t belong the an entity privaty, but belong the all society that is located in that region   6) To sent all the documents to an oficial institution to check and finally approve the new Geographical Indication "Each Day the World is complex and different" 

 The Second Seminary of Coffee Growing: Intersections among Geography, Environment and Management that happened in the campus of IFSULDEMINAS in Poços Caldas city was a succesful. The three nights were of good presentations and discussion about the thinghs and points that are in relation with Coffee Production. In the next Seminary I´ll the program in two days only, because it´s better to concentrate the event, one day for Geography and another day for Environment Management. The three days that had the coffee-brake were nice and the public particitpation was regular, mainly because the workers of institute are Strike. The other point to remember in the next year is let all this things prepair one month before, specially the Guests of the presentations.   This way, I think that the Second Seminary of Coffee Growing: Intersections among Geography, Environment and Management was good.  Today I read ten pages of Book "O animal social" written by Elliot Aronson "All day ...

In the Second Seminary of Coffee Growing: Intersections among Geography, Environment and Management that It´ll occur in the days 14, 15 and 16 May in the auditory of Federal Institute of South of Minas Gerais going to have many and varioius lectures. Let´s go to schedule:  Tuesday :   The Coffee Geography in South of Minas Gerais State  Wednesday: First Lecture: The agroecological system and agroforestry together Coffee Platantion                      Second Lecture: The coffee history in South of Minas Gerais State  Thursday:  First Lecture: The coffee and Geographic Indication                    Second Lecture: The trends of the researches academics about Coffee Geography I believe that every subjects and issues are covered. In the next seminary it´s important has one night related with Environment management and Coffe, I forgot this. Beyond this it´s ...

 The Second Seminary of Coffee Growing: Intersections among the Geography, Environment and Management is an anual event that looking for gathered the researchs in Human Science that treating about Coffee production. This Seminary occur in the Federal Institute of South of Minas Gerais, Poços de Caldas campus, always in the first semester of each year.  The researches about coffee production are traditional in the Federal Institute of South of Minas Gerais, but the majority theses researchs are make to agriculture and administration related with coffee production. These works are very important but was lacking studies or subjects with focus in the Human Science.  This way, the Geography course in 2023 propose this seminary. This idea from because some geographers researchers were envolved with projects about Geographic Indication connected with the Associantion of producers of Region Vulcanic Coffee´s. Like this, enjoying the Seminary made by Association the Geography Cour...

For the Geographers the space ins´t just a piece of land without influence above human specie, but the space can influence an receive the influence of all human activity inclusive the economies actitvities. This way the space is more than a Theater for the human desire, therefore, the geographic space has a complexity deeper, sides and a multifaceted enviroment, so, when we are studyng any economy activity in a Local this activity it´s more than an economic phenomenun, It has complexity and envolve a large number of elements to study.        From this explanation let´s talk about the difference between the Chain Productive of Coffee and a Spatial Cicuit of Coffee Production.  The Chain of Productive is compound for the all sectors tha are linkages to producte de coffee drink. Since the plantation untill the Coffee Shop are companies that make a Chain Productive of Coffee, thus, The Chain Productive is more related with economics aspects. The Economy Geography of...

The Coffee World´s study is very large, since the economies subjects offer a big amplitude to study. Because this,  is relevant the researcher chose a Point of View to delimitate his work scientific. There are many views or sides about the subject to start the research, let´s demosntratate someviews. The Economic Geographer can choose: a) The phiscal structuries that server the coffee production, this study area is very large and complex. A good research can detect Who is responsable to build and to mantain these strutucturies. b) Who are thefarmers that are envolvided with coffee production in that region, Are Small farmers? Are Big Farmers?. In the same context, is Wichs are the type of technologies used by these farmers. c) What are the kind of relationship among farmers, association, coopertaives, companies and Public Sector.  d) How is structured the chain productivy of coffee or How is structured and spread the Circuit Spacial the Production Coffee in the region.  ...

 The Coffee Production depends on of many elements and structures to be excelent and efficient. Since to plant until to prepair a cup of coffee this is a complex system and a productivy chain.  When We speak tha coffee production is more "geographic" than othes types of agriculture We want to indicate that in each level of this system the presence of strutuctures ande workers in the local still is important.   The first example is that the majority of coffee producers is compound for de small and medium farmers, therefore the coffee agriculture needs a relevant number of workers. It´s good to count also thar season harvest the number of workers is higher because many people are hire to harvest. The farm needs of many structures and machines to work and produce a good coffee. It´s necessary a space to dry the coffee, one machine to take the mucilage the coffee cherry,  the structure to store the green grain and machines to mantain the farming during all the year....

 There are several areas in the science that study the coffee world, therefore this coffee world offer multiples possibities, ways and methodoligies that can used to contribute to help all the things that related with coffee world. This way up the Economy Geography of Coffee can contribute to give a overwie of how the production coffee influence in the Geografic Space that was chosen to be studied. We can to do some question for make a to lead the research, like these:  a) How many fisical structures server the coffee production? b) What is scale of economy influence that coffee production reach? c) How much workers are related directelly with chain productivity of coffee in the region? d) How is the production this local in compair with others coffee regions the same size? e) What is kind of work that the workers are envolved? f) How the plantation of coffee it´s respect the natural enviroment? g) The city get give a good resoucers to local population, like a hospital, homes,...

 When I want to research about some issue related with coffee world, I like a Geographer I choose a Study Object, always I need let very clear what I wish to study. It´s better have a specific good Case Study. In the Economy Geography of Coffee we don´t worried about the coffe plant, because the coffee plant it´s worried to others scientists.  We economics geographers must be focus with how the activity producty of coffee it´s influencing the geographic space and how geographic space influence the coffee production. This way we observer all the things that appear this relantionship. It´s important to remark that the Human and the Social Justice are very relevant to Economy Geography study, always putting the enviroment issues together. After that I choose my Case Study and I start the research using the methodologies that I developted in my book "Economic Geography: Permanences and Ruptures in the Analysis of Economic Activity in its Relationship with Geographic Space" ...

My interest area in the science It´s the Geography, have been more specific my Master Degreee and PHd were about Economy Geography of Industry. In 2023, I wrote a book that talk about how to do a good scientific research in Economy Geography, this Book called "Economic Geography: Permanences and Ruptures in the Analysis of Economic Activity in its Relationship with Geographic Space". The big goal this book  it´s to be a guidance for new students who are beginning in the Geography College. I organized this work from many books, papers and authors geographers wich I called five steps or a methodologies that the  geographers can follow to do a good research, they are 1) localization ; 2) reasons for that productive activity to be in that local; 3) what are the mutual influences of productive activity in the Space and Space Geographic in the productive activity; 4) To Define the Time and Scale of study and 5) what relationship between of Local scale, Regional scale and Global sca...

 The coffee production is different and more complex then others plantation. Since to plantation in the farm until to serve a cup of coffee in the cafe shop, this chain it´s complex and structures with many elements.  Today, lets give examples in the urban eviroment, in a midium city, about the urban structures for Coffee Production. The example more known is the store to sell agricol implements, machines and tools to work in the coffee agriculture.  For to store the coffee grains there are the cooperatives, they are necessary to store, to sell and to instruct the farmer how sell and when sell their grains.  The associations are relevant to offer for the farmers a force to take decisions about new ways to product and associat to have more politics force to protect with the goal about of potencial the comun interests.  In the Cities are the financial institutions and bank, they are important to keep money, to have access the inssurancies and take credit. Finally,...

 The coffee has a big importance to many areas for the Brazil. Until today the coffee keeping a important product to exportation for the economy country, actually the coffee it´s a fourth commodity exported by Brazil, this is much significant.  During almost one hundred and thirty years the coffee was the main product exported by Brazil, since in the half ninteen century the grain possibilited of Brazil attracted sources to mantain the mininum taxe balance, this helped the country built many structuries to development.  The state simbol this importance it´s São Paulo state, this state got acummulated a large structuries like: rail net, highways, harbor, financial system, quality employers and relevant technologic and science centers. There was a reseacher who called this system how Complex of Coffee, his name is Wilson Cano. This way the coffee still is much important to Brazil mainly for the cities that depend on of coffee cultivation. There are many cities that surviver...

 The Specialities coffees are coffees of type Coffee Arabica that are the best to produce delight drinks. This kind of grain is compound for more one thousand chemical substance, this composition is able to give a wonderful flavour, aroma and sweetnes to the drinks.  The Speciality Coffee Association - SCA is the organization that care of quality and standartization that what is "Speciality Coffee". All the coffee that called Special Coffee must to reach above eighty points in the SCA classification. When a coffea reach this calssification, It´ll be a delicious drink. In Brazil all the specility coffees must to follow the rules of Brazilian Speciality Coffee Association - BSCA , this association is linkage with Specity Coffee Association - SCA. Brazil is the bigger product of Special Coffee in the World, the country is recognized for the enormous variety of special coffee that can produce. This happen because the Brazil territory it´s large and there are many different enviro...

 The coffee plant it´s a plant originated in Abyssinian Plateau, actually Etiopia. This plant is adapted to tropical weather, that has and midiun and high altitude, his cientific name is coffea arabica. But, there is a kind of coffee that adapted to the equatorial weather, this the Coffee Canephora, the variety most known are Robusta and Conilon coffee, this type of plant like high tempetaures and high humity.  The Coffee Arabica is the most popular plant, it´s used to give flavor, aroma and sweetness  for the drink. The Canephora Coffee is used to compound the industrialized coffee because it is cheaper and his productivity is bigger than coffee arabica.  It´s nice remember that coffee ´s the second larger drink more consumed in the world,  behind just water. Today I read ten pages of book "Valsa Brasileira" and studied my course of technology of coffee production

I love the Coffee Economic Geography and all subjects reletade with this subject, specially how the coffee activity has his configuration in the space, this is the issue to Coffee Economic Geography. But, I need understandig more about the ways to production e about fisiology and structure of coffee plant. So I decided begun this course. The course will be during two years and It is free because  the Institution is public.  In the past I tried to do, but I din´t get finish in that time, but now I´ll.  Today: I read ten pages of the book called: "Valsa Brasileira", I did my English Class and I studied my Coffee Production Technologist lesson.  Evereday the World It´s diferent  

Canto a bebida que a correr, cheirosa. Toda santa manhã, junto ao fogão. Reúne da família os membros todos em gostosa, inocente comunhão. Eu te amo, ó café, na porcelana. Do fidalgo, na chicra do roceiro, Mas é na pátria Minas que te adora Na cuia negrecida do tropeiro. Sim, de Junho, nas noites friorentas. Junto ao fogo, no rancho, sobre o couro. Ao som de uma viola requebrada. Com um cigarro do Pomba, és um tesouro E aqui, sem um amor, entre estes livros. Em que a alma, sedenta em vão se cansa, E's tu, meu velho amigo, que me inspiras. Que me fazes sonhar uma esperança. O' café foi um génio quem te uniu Do auri-verde pendão aos vivos brilhos! Do Brasil representas a riqueza E o talento fecundo de seus filhos. Quando eu fôr moribundo, ó meus amigos. Lançai fóra, os xaropes de Galeno, E instalai em meus lábios ressequidos O nêtar que êle chama de veneno. E—como^ Andrada (1), sobre a sua lousa, A forma de um pézinho feiticeiro, —Eu peço, sobre a minha sepultura....

A irrigação almeja  atender à necessidade de água das plantas nos períodos de estiagem e de momentos de crise hidrológica, e é relevante aplicá-la em quantidade correta para que não se inviabilize a produção e a dinâmica da lavoura. Essa técnica  tem proporcionado incrementos consideráveis na produtividade das lavouras cafeeiras nas áreas produtoras do país, o que ampara o interesse crescente por parte dos cafeicultores. A  cafeicultura irrigada  no Brasil representa quase 300 mil hectares, pouco mais de 12% do parque cafeeiro. Porém, as áreas irrigadas são responsáveis por 30% da produção nacional de café, graças às grandes vantagens do cultivo irrigado comparado com o cultivo de sequeiro. Vantagens da lavoura irrigada:  Maior controle da safra, ou maior previsibilidade menores riscos  maior eficiência na utilização e aplicação de insumos maior produtividade e  melhor qualidade do produto maior rentabilidade Uma lavoura irrigada pode...

O apelo para o consumo de um produto mais saudável, com práticas ambientais e sociais mais equilibradas e justas está crescendo a cada ano. O café não é diferente, protocolos para transformar a lavoura convencional (utilização de agrotóxicos, adubos e fertilizantes sintéticos/químicos) para áreas que obedeçam o processo de certificação orgânica ganham espaço no Brasil e no Mundo. Entretanto, a área de cafeicultura orgânica no mundo é 1,5% do total dos cafeeiros, sendo que no Brasil é de apenas 0,3%. O valor de uma saca de café orgânico pode valer, em média, 30% a mais que o convencional.  Em vista disso, se o café orgânico é mais saudável e possui um maior valor, por que esse tipo de cultivo não cresce virtuosamente? A resposta é menor produtividade, maiores gastos, maior trabalho intensivo e demora para a transição e certificação do grão orgânico. Entre as características e barreiras se pode elencar: Sistema integrado com preservação da flora Sistema consorciado com outro...

O estado de São Paulo, durante um século liderou a produção de café brasileira. Atualmente, o estado é o terceiro maior produtor do Brasil, atrás de Minas Gerais e do Espírito Santo. O território paulista ainda apresenta elementos de infraestrutura da cadeia produtiva do café, esse fato faz com que o estado tenha uma permanente resiliência na produção da rubiácea, esse quadro pode potencializar a produção para o futuro e recolocar a cafeicultura paulista com proeminência no cenário nacional Entre os elementos infraestruturais pode-se citar: Mercado Consumidor  Densidade de transporte Áreas propícias de plantio Tradição  Sistema de armazenagem completo Todos os tipos de indústrias da cadeia produtiva Centros tecnológicos, de pesquisa e de extensão Cooperativas  Agências de crédito publico e privadas Indústrias de Bens de Capital para a produção cafeeira

Historicamente acredita-se que os  jesuítas plantaram as primeiras mudas de café na Colômbia, em meados do século XVIII. Entretanto, a exportação teve início em 1835, na região de Salazar de las Palmas, Norte de Santander. Já em 1860, o café era o principal produto de exportação da Colômbia. A marca da agricultura familiar é presente até hoje na produção colombiana. A pequenas fazendas, em geral, possuem de altitude elevada, com média entre 1,2 mil e 2 mil metros. O solo de origem vulcânica é muti fértil. A geomorfologia da área cafeicultora colombiana cria microclimas (com temperaturas que variam de 8 a 24 graus), a variedade de altitudes das lavouras, o regime singular pluvial e a insolação recebida pelas plantas são elementos determinantes para a alta qualidade dos grãos  (terroir diversificados, origina bebidas de sabores bem variados)  , a variedade majoritariamente mais cultivada é a arábica. A colheita é tradicionalmente manual e selecionada por fruto, a ...