Coffee Cultural Landscape: landscape productive for the world as part of local development policies

Abstract

Cultural landscape is directly associated to the physical expression of human activity in land, as time goes by. This activity leaves in the territory a series of traces, as for example: tracks, constructions, topography modifications, and transformation of original habitat. When one speaks of “cultural landscape”, it doesn’t always imply a reference to a “living” territory, in terms of the productive activity that represents its identity traces. Coffee Cultural Landscape, as one of the “living” cultural landscapes in the world, is a key element in the construction of a sustainable, consensual an participative development model for the department and the region; and UNESCO statement an opportunity, as well as a challenge, to make it possible.