BBC News | BUSINESS | Coffee farmers 'face destitution' (#)

  „The report comes ahead of the first World Coffee Conference, a three-day gathering of leading figures in the industry in London, which begins on Thursday. Oxfam fails to address the fundamental economics of the coffee market in the long term British Coffee Association Oxfam is concerned at the growing disparity of wealth between different parts of the coffee industry, following a 60% drop in the value of the crop on international commodity markets in the last three years. The British Coffee Association has dismissed the report's findings at "too short term." Rich versus poor Oxfam says that, in real terms, coffee prices are lower than they have ever been. Click here to see the biggest coffee producing countries This, it says, is having devastating consequences for poor farmers in coffee growing countries.“

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