Identificación de las variables que afectan las condiciones de vida y producción de los pequeños caficultores de la vereda el alto llano-Nariño en los últimos 10 años

Abstract

The current crisis in the coffee sector caused by the mishandling of policies by presidential governments and the growing openness and interdependence of markets, which has become a great predatory bureaucracy has led the sector to ruin, a scenario that has enhanced the inequality between those who possess the capacities to face the new commercial conditions and the small groups whose management does not compete in the national and international markets and therefore, exclusion in the terms of trade is generated, in addition the power of influence that It has the national federation of coffee growers to determine the sale price of coffee from small producers and that has failed to guarantee their economic well-being. This is the case of small producers, such as the coffee growers of the El Alto Llano village, who are in the middle of a chain of intermediaries who obtain most of the profits; what has generated economic, social and political difficulties in the coffee family, from this it is conducted in the search for other agricultural activities or economic alternatives for sustenance and continue in their contexts. This dynamic alters the behavior of the family and of the subjects that are permanently in their labor roles and begin to perceive a different reference of coffee, for this reason, it is necessary to resort to new models and mechanisms that seek equity in the coffee sector. This work seeks to identify the variables that are affecting the living and production conditions of small coffee farmers in the El Alto Llano village of the municipality of San Pablo Nariño in the last 10 years, taking into account their current productive and administrative practices and the search for the way to improve them, from the perspective 10 of the Peasant Economy, achieving not only their welfare but also that the country's economy is mobilized. To fulfill this objective, the fieldwork was carried out by the researchers through the application of 10 written interviews addressed to peasant families of the Alto Llano village of the municipality of San Pablo Nariño dedicated to coffee cultivation, projected to Know the perception they have regarding the coffee sector crisis and thus identify the variables that affect their living and production conditions, covering various social, cultural, economic and political factors, and in this way design a plan strategy aimed at improving production, which allows to reinforce the entire process of the distribution chain that is required so that the product is marketed in an optimal way and that guarantees an economic remuneration according to the effort that said activity requires. It was possible to determine that there is a great abandonment to small coffee producers by government entities and that, on the contrary, the government's management of the coffee crisis is more repressive to the life of the coffee grower. Being of utmost urgency to create market strategies oriented to improve the quality of life of these people