BBC News | BUSINESS | Quality focus boosts coffee growers (#)
„The coffee market is in the doldrums and prices are low. However, some Bolivian coffee farmers now hope to improve their lot by growing top-quality beans. Andrew Enever reports from Bolivia. Coffee production has been a bad business in recent times.“
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BBC NEWS | Business | East African coffee growers fight back
„Coffee prices reached their lowest level for almost 40 years at the start of 2002. Kenya produces some of the world's top grade Arabica coffee beans but quality and output have fallen because the poor prices have persuaded farmers to turn to other crops. "If the quality of the coffee produced in the regions improves, then farmers will get better prices," Mr Kawuma said. The EAFCA hopes it can improve coffee growing practices which have deteriorated as earnings have fallen.“
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BBC NEWS | Business | Why cheap beans don't make cheap coffee
„Why have the coffee exporters flooded the market? Coffee producing countries used to control the supply and the price of coffee, in accordance with the International Coffee Agreement. But in 1989, coffee exporting states failed to agree on quotas. This happened partly because countries that never used to produce coffee begun to grow the crop, thus adding to an already mature market.“
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BBC News | BUSINESS | Starbucks takes on its critics
„But this was the company's day, and it wasn't going to let noisy speeches and a few leaflets detract from its success story. Along with the standard free bag of coffee beans, shareholders were treated to the kind of razzmatazz one expects from such a high-profile, global company - the largest retailer of gourmet coffee in the world. South American musicians performed live on stage, while behind them, enormous screens showed videos of thriving Third World farmers. Sports stars extolled the company's virtues, and Starbucks employees - stepping in time to the uplifting music from the film "Chariots of Fire" - paraded the flags of the 25 nations that now house the company's coffee outlets.“
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„The result of this competition has driven the cost of raw coffee beans to a 30 year low, with growers receiving less than cost price for their beans. Such competition presently benefits the roasters (the main ones being Nestlé, Philip Morris-Kraft, Procter and Gamble and Sara Lee/Douwe Egberts). Nestlé is reported to make 26% profit on its processed coffee (more than most other products on the supermarket shelves). Competition on price is driving people into poverty.“
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„Cuban coffee from Andrew, eh? I don't think I've ever had Cuban beans. I'll have to order some of that.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/cafetalk/.../ comments?parent=%252fcafetalk%252f12-09-2003
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