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BBC NEWS | Business | Oxfam launches 'Coffee Rescue' plan

  „The charity claims that with coffee prices now at a 30-year low, as many as 25 million people who depend on the crop for a living are being forced into poverty. Oxfam is launching a "Coffee Rescue Plan" urging political and business leaders to take immediate action, such as destroying surplus stocks and guaranteeing a fair price for farmers. The campaign comes a week before the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) is due to meet and discuss ways to solve the crisis. Big four drinkers Oxfam is attacking what it calls the "big four" coffee companies - Kraft, Sara Lee, Procter & Gamble and Nestle - which it says buy nearly half the world's coffee crop between them.“

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BBC News | BUSINESS | Coffee farmers 'face destitution'

  „However, the BCA - which represents coffee manufactuers selling in the UK - says Oxfam "fails to address the fundamental economics of the coffee market in the long term". "Increasing prices of green coffee beans without implementing appropriate controls on production would not help the livelihood of the growers in producing countries in the longer term," the BCA argued in a press release. Click here to return“

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BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Laos' fresh coffee hopes

  „But to make an impact in a world dominated by top produce from such coffee giants as Brazil and Colombia is a formidable challenge. "We have to upgrade the quality of our coffee, everything from the picking of the beans to the last phase of production, so as to meet the standards required abroad," says the head of the national exporters association, Boonlap Nhouyvanisvong. "If we achieve that, then we believe Lao coffee can penetrate markets around the world". There are other problems too.“

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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Kraft criticised over coffee policy

  „The charity Oxfam says Cheltenham-based Kraft Foods is making billions in profits around the world, particularly from its coffee products, while farmers are facing bankruptcy.“

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Britons hope for tourists' return

  „Their plan was to earn enough over the Christmas and New Year period from the shop to buy equipment for the coffee shop.“

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