“…As an indirect result of the process, the coffee market has propped Brazilian economy, together with other agricultural products (Barra & Ladeira, 2016;Dos Santos et al, 2009). The coffee production region, comprising Machado, Poç o Fundo and other neighboring towns in the south of the state of Minas Gerais, has been in the limelight since it is mostly composed of small-sized farms which financially depend on their own production (Frederico, 2013;Frederico;Barone, 2015;Vilela;Rufino, 2010, Cunha andPutti, 2020;Cunha et al, 2017, Gabriel Filho et al, 2017.…”