A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD

As the geographical indication consequences are the articulation of inalienability,
strong linkage with place and transmission on a collective basis clearly meaning an intention
of continuity in relationship between the group and its place (Verdeaux and Roussel, 2007), it
fatally implies an excludability phenomenon while delimitating boundaries. But to define a
place, it is necessary to first define a space, and considering these places’ parameters, I finally
inclined towards an historical approach through administrative changes, and landscapeability
unlike territoriality, typicity and practices are lesser difference factors distinguishing Limu
region from other coffee producing regions but commonly shared parameters between the
latter.
I will associate Limu region and Limu coffee region because, unlike other located
products as specific spices, coffee is the Ethiopian symbolic product which doesn’t get limited
into specific locations but spread into all woreda area. In this way, a woredas’ and
consequently administrative boundaries’ approach appears to be more suitable.
2.1) Administrative units: region, zone, woreda and kebele
Illustration 7: Administrative regions and zones of Ethiopia
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