Territorialidade e indicação geográfica : estudo dos territórios do Vale dos Vinhedos (BRA) e Montilla-Moriles (ESP)

Abstract

This thesis is based on two pillars: the issue of geographical indications (GIs) and the territorial approach to development. From a comparative study between territories in Brazil and Spain, we used the territorial development perspective to assess the possibilities of geographical indications to contribute to rural development, answering some questions. Which the potential of geographical indications to channel innovation in rural areas and help producers associated with forward territorial development processes? The widespread of GIs in a country interferes in their effects on the territory as it applies? The size of the geographical territory of space is important? The specificity of the product account? Finally, the limits and possibilities for geographical indications act as instruments to channel territorial development processes, since the territories in which they apply are not homogeneous social constructions? After all, how can we understand objectively the territorial development? So, while we employ a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the thinking of economists, geographers and social scientists in the territorial approach to development, we seek to find a place for geographical indications in the harvest of the economic literature. In addition, we seek to build a purely objective view of territorial development with which we can identify some results of these strategies in capitalist appropriation processes of rural areas. For basic hypothesis, we have the simple organization of a geographical indication in a given territory wine does not guarantee, a priori, any effect, other than to make a group of associated producers holds control over the amount of raw material produced within a certain spatial area, as well as the technique applied to the raw material, to generate a product with specific characteristics - collectively determined.