It will be succesful to have a commercial relation between France and Colombia focus on the milk sector ?

Globalization has led to a drastic change on the international trade, this has caused that many countries such as France and Colombia find new business partners. This is the raison because I develop the investigation about How these countries can be integrated commercially in the dairy sector? Colombia and France had active trade relations for more than 8 years, but this has been declining for several factors. In the case of France, it has found that Germany is an excellent producer of raw milk, which can supply domestic demand and can export large quantities with a low price to European countries because of its proximity. For this reason, Colombia is a country that can not compete with Germany directly in raw milk, but I concluded that Colombia could become a major competitor with organic milk. This is the result of a research of the way they raise and feed the cows in the two countries, Colombia is generally on open country and Germany is on cow housing. In Colombia, the country found that Venezuela could offer many benefits in the processing of raw milk, and other processes that require high technology. But today Colombia has had several disputes with Venezuela and many Colombian companies are affected in this sector. Additionally, France is one of the largest producers and distributors of processed milk and its derivatives; it launches annually many manufactured products with high technology. At this point, Colombia can take out the best advantage because it can create an strategic alliance with French companies to bring most innovative and processed products such as cheese and yoghurts. The theoretical framework of this thesis consists on the analysis of competitiveness, because it is relevant to see if these two countries are competitive or if one has the comparative advantage over the other. The related authors are: Michael Porter, Adam Smith and David Ricardo. To complete the theoretical part, we found that France has a comparative advantage over Colombia in this sector thanks to its high technology, and Colombia is not currently competitive in the area of raw milk because the milk price is higher and the distance is a barrier, and it has no technology. But this research indicates that Colombia could become a competitive country selling organic milk.

Comercio de artesanías desde una perspectiva de género y competitividad : caso Colombia Alta Consejería para la Equidad de la Mujer

En Colombia, existen diferentes entidades e instituciones que trabajan para promover y desarrollar el comercio nacional e internacional de los productos artesanales elaborados por mujeres, entre ellos se destacan la labor que realiza la Consejería Presidencial para la Equidad de la Mujer, con programas de capacitación e innovación en marco al Programa Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Mujer: Empresaria-EXPOEMPRESARIA entre otros, realizado durante 5 años consecutivos, para promover y apoyar la comercialización de productos de diferentes sectores económicos, en el cual, la artesanía participa activamente en ella. Adicional a esto, diferentes empresas y asociaciones trabajan para desarrollar y comercializar productos artesanales dentro de Colombia y por fuera de ella. Dentro de lo cual, realizan capacitaciones, ferias, convenios, sin embargo, pocos artesanos logran generar una visión empresarial integral, ya que no cuentan el conocimiento adecuado y para comercializar nacional e internacionalmente sus productos. Las Mujeres Artesanas de Colombia, no cuenten con la visión, con el conocimiento, la trayectoria, capacidad y la experiencia suficiente para desarrollar sus productos artesanales autónomamente, ya que estos son de muy baja cantidad y el concepto de calidad no es concientizado por ellas, además por lo que son de carácter artesanal y especialmente exclusivos, de mucho interés para el público importados especialmente interesados en el ámbito europeo y norteamericano. Para que lo anterior se pueda llevar a cabo con un verdadero impacto social, solo es posible promoviendo asociaciones de mujeres artesanas interesadas en prepararse y hacer sus productos más competitivos a nivel nacional y especialmente internacional. Ya que dichos productos no se venden en cantidades pero requieren una forma de promoción especial, donde la diversidad y la cualidad sumadas con la calidad hacen viable y sostenible la promoción y comercialización de un conjunto de productos distintos, estéticos, atractivos al gusto especial de la mujer y exclusivos en sus formas y material.