Inclusive and resilient value chains: rural female empowerment and co-management strategies, in the redefinition of the role of the coffee-growing woman in Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.26507/paper.4361Keywords:
productivity, industrialization, marketing, gender equity, inclusion, food and nutritional securityAbstract
Coffee is the most traded product worldwide, after oil. Currently, the coffee supply chain -CSC- has undergone changes at the organizational, technological and management level from impact engineering to care for and transform life. On the other hand, the impact of public policy that seeks to improve the operational efficiency of processes is not known exactly, in terms of improving the quality of life, entrepreneurship, food and nutritional security, linkage to labor formalization, the degree of incorporation of rural women in associations, transformational leadership and female empowerment in relation to agricultural extension and rural development, the coffee family and generational change. The literature that mentions rural women in the CSC is still scarce. This research is derived from the thesis entitled "Feasibility for strategic and tactical decision making in the CSC (Coffea): robustness and resilience, agility and sustainability" aligned with the central objective of a research project in partnership between the University of Caldas and the UNAD with the purpose of generating knowledge from the analysis of the CSC produced by rural women in southern Tolima - Colombia, specifically the municipality of Planadas, in order to establish multi, trans and interdisciplinary work perspectives and strategic planning, based on a systematic study on socio-labor practices and co-management strategies.
The quantitative and qualitative approach includes data collection instruments (interviews, surveys and Delphi method), and metrics from the specialty coffee exporting association: ASOCAFÉ - La Orquídea de Planadas. A mathematical model will also be proposed that includes a part of the CSC and will be carried out using the Python software, which adequately represents the real behavior of the system dynamics from the stochastic method under mixed integer modeling - MILP, and robust optimization, in order to provide a prospective analysis for tactical and strategic decision making, by determining the objective function, parameters, variables and restrictions in the modeling for the mathematical model.
The expected results are linked to the systematic review under the Prisma method, the social appropriation of knowledge from the generation of an academic event for rural women, a viability methodology for the CSC that addresses the robustness and resilience, agility and therefore the sustainability of the coffee plant. The methodology will be based on the SCRUM method, which will contribute from the engineering perspective to social-community and solidarity strategic planning, which will dignify the role of rural women in the micro-territory, based on a greater role and the achievement of gender equality in inclusive and resilient value chains.
Author Biographies
Duarte, A., Universidad de Caldas
Professor, PhD in Engineering, University of Caldas, Calle 65 No. 26-10, Manizales, Colombia
John Willmer Escobar Velásquez, Universidad del Valle
Professor of the Department of Accounting and Finance of the Faculty of Administration Sciences, University of Valle, Meléndez University City, Calle 13 No 100-00. Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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