The Associativity: a local development strategy for Ocamonte (APCO) coffee growers in Santander, Colombia
The market liberalization policy is forcing business sectors and localities to generate strategies aimed to improving the living conditions of entrepreneurs and at the same time, being competitive. The present study exhibits the major contributions to local development, obtained from the creation as...
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| author | Ligia Inès Melo Torres Maria Mercedes Melo Torres Dora Esther Fonseca Pinto |
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| description | The market liberalization policy is forcing business sectors and localities to generate strategies aimed to improving the living conditions of entrepreneurs and at the same time, being competitive. The present study exhibits the major contributions to local development, obtained from the creation associativity strategy of small coffee growers in Ocamonte (APCO), Santander-Colombia. It was observed that contributions evidenced in the dimension improvements as follows: socio-cultural, economic, environmental and policy- institutional, respectively. Given these concerns, a descriptive study with a sample of 45 associates was designed, from which in the second half of 2015, a structured survey was applied, evidencing the perceptions of the associates in relation of their achievements, evidenced associativity for more than 20 years, entering into fair trade agreements, improving their living conditions, being competitive and contributing to local development of their municipality. In fact, these results were corroborated in information obtained in interviews with members of the director board of the coffee growers association, as well as officials of the City Hall and schoolteachers in the association area of influence. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2a72d8ef660743ed91eee025e6d712542025-08-20T03:48:32ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaActa Agronómica0120-28122323-01182017-10-0166453854310.15446/acag.v66n4.6138946254The Associativity: a local development strategy for Ocamonte (APCO) coffee growers in Santander, ColombiaLigia Inès Melo Torres0Maria Mercedes Melo Torres1Dora Esther Fonseca Pinto2Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. UPTC sede seccional Sogamoso, ColombiaUniversidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. UPTC sede seccional Sogamoso, ColombiaUniversidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. UPTC sede seccional Sogamoso, ColombiaThe market liberalization policy is forcing business sectors and localities to generate strategies aimed to improving the living conditions of entrepreneurs and at the same time, being competitive. The present study exhibits the major contributions to local development, obtained from the creation associativity strategy of small coffee growers in Ocamonte (APCO), Santander-Colombia. It was observed that contributions evidenced in the dimension improvements as follows: socio-cultural, economic, environmental and policy- institutional, respectively. Given these concerns, a descriptive study with a sample of 45 associates was designed, from which in the second half of 2015, a structured survey was applied, evidencing the perceptions of the associates in relation of their achievements, evidenced associativity for more than 20 years, entering into fair trade agreements, improving their living conditions, being competitive and contributing to local development of their municipality. In fact, these results were corroborated in information obtained in interviews with members of the director board of the coffee growers association, as well as officials of the City Hall and schoolteachers in the association area of influence.https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/acta_agronomica/article/view/61389Social capitalfair tradecompetitivenessmanagement cultureassociationlocal development |
| spellingShingle | Ligia Inès Melo Torres Maria Mercedes Melo Torres Dora Esther Fonseca Pinto The Associativity: a local development strategy for Ocamonte (APCO) coffee growers in Santander, Colombia Acta Agronómica Social capital fair trade competitiveness management culture association local development |
| title | The Associativity: a local development strategy for Ocamonte (APCO) coffee growers in Santander, Colombia |
| title_full | The Associativity: a local development strategy for Ocamonte (APCO) coffee growers in Santander, Colombia |
| title_fullStr | The Associativity: a local development strategy for Ocamonte (APCO) coffee growers in Santander, Colombia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Associativity: a local development strategy for Ocamonte (APCO) coffee growers in Santander, Colombia |
| title_short | The Associativity: a local development strategy for Ocamonte (APCO) coffee growers in Santander, Colombia |
| title_sort | associativity a local development strategy for ocamonte apco coffee growers in santander colombia |
| topic | Social capital fair trade competitiveness management culture association local development |
| url | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/acta_agronomica/article/view/61389 |
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