Abstract

AGUILAR PINTO, Emma  and  GONZALEZ, Alma Amalia. Cafeticultura indígena en Yajalón: un escenario al margen del comercio justo. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2009, vol.4, n.7, pp.157-186. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2009.7.187.

Approximately 224 campesino farming organizations currently exist in Mexico that directly export their coffee, sporting certification seals of solidarity-based and organic agricultural practices. Beyond the advantages this social process has brought to its affiliates, little attention has been directed toward those organizations that are outside of these commercialization tools. What situations do they face? What are their internal organizational processes, and their relations with local development agents? Our questions focus on the area of influence of the city of Yajalón. We begin based on analysis of one of the region’s oldest Technical Consulting Offices (DCT for its initials in Spanish) which attends to one of the highest numbers of coffee growers. We explain how the organizations that remain outside of Fair Trade (FT) emerged and how they develop, as a way of explaining the emergence of new forms of intermediation and rural organization in the current era.

Keywords : Fair trade; indigenous coffee production; organic coffee; social organizations; technical consultancy.

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