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  „  Kenya Kenya works diligently to assure quality in all beans that are exported. The coffee is cultivated on small farms, and the growers are rewarded with high prices for quality beans. The main growing region in Kenya extends south of 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya to near the capital of Nairobi.“

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Coffee Discussion about Espresso, Coffee Beans and Coffee Machines - Coffee Forum

  „Forum and News for people in the coffee industry and looking to get into it such as coffee shop owners, coffee bean growers, sales, conventions, shops, equipment, roasters, and everything coffee industry related.“

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International Coffee Organization

  „But the Arabs had a strict policy not to export any fertile beans, so that coffee could not be cultivated anywhere else. The coffee bean is the seed of the coffee tree, but when stripped of its outer layers it becomes infertile. The race to make off with some live coffee trees or beans was eventually won by the Dutch in 1616, who brought some back to Holland where they were grown in greenhouses.“

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Global Exchange : cctimes082699.html

  „The group argues that many small farmers are impoverished by selling their coffee below market price, and large bean growers are more likely to clear cut rain forests to grow coffee beans. The group then sells raw coffee beans to middlemen called roasters in the United States who toast the beans brown. The roasters sell the beans to retail shops.“

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Global Exchange : Battle over beans brews in Berkeley

  „Though fair trade isn't a new approach to boost the incomes of poor growers and their workers and, in turn, create better lives for their dependents and communities, it's been thrust into the international spotlight thanks to plummeting coffee prices. Exacerbated by a glut of beans flooding the global market, the average price per pound of coffee was less than 48 cents in September, according to the International Coffee Organization. That's about one-third the price in 1997.“

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Tea & Coffee 02/04 - World News

  „In 2003, the operation, then an experiment by the Federation, netted $708,000 in sales in its first year of operation. Growers who sell specialty beans to the Juan Valdez franchise receive a 45% premium. The stores are part of the Federation’s drive to conquer a larger profit share in today’s competitive global coffee market by selling the drink directly to consumers.“

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