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„Much of the business is taken care of personally at annual meetings between the co-ops. In this way, Cooperative Coffees and other fair trade organizations build long-term relationships with farmers that both parties can depend on. Support for organic certification, sustainable farming practices, access to affordable credit, and consumer education to create more demand for fairly traded coffee are also priorities of the fair trade movement.“
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„They buy directly from the farmer co-ops and cut out all the middlemen. Though fair trade coffee makes up only a small portion of the current gourmet market, it has become mainstream enough that roasters can buy directly from conventional coffee importers. But through the co-op, “we’re paying about what we’d pay any importer for fair trade coffee,” said Harris.“
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„Cooperative Coffees is a unique organization - a green coffee importing cooperative committed to supporting and partnering with small-scale coffee farmers and their exporting cooperatives. By importing directly from our partner-farmers, Cooperative Coffees seeks to creatively foster a more equitable and sustainable system of coffee trade that directly benefits these farmers, their families and their communities.“
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„Equal Exchange’s partners are small farmer co-ops that are governed by the farmers themselves. They are dedicated to the equitable distribution of income and the provision of other services, such as healthcare and education.“
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„However, there are over 300 fair trade registered co-ops around the world with 550,000 farmer members. With little or no participation by other US coffee companies these farmers can only sell a fraction of their crop on fair trade terms. For example, one Equal Exchange partner in Peru, COCLA, produces over 18,000,000 pounds of coffee annually, but can export just 15 percent of its harvest on fair trade terms. They must sell the rest at much lower prices and on worse terms.“
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„Coffee used in the church-based program is sold by a Canton, Mass.-based, for-profit worker-owned cooperative called Equal Exchange, which buys from small-scale farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Parishes that want to purchase the coffee can contact the company or the groups involved in the effort, organizers said.“
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