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„Don Sabas (below), owns just over two acres of land, where he is growing coffee using organic farming methods. CRS and Cáritas Matagalpa are working with hundreds of small-scale coffee farmers like Sebastiana and Sabas in the mountainous north of Nicaragua, where historically low coffee prices have caused acute suffering in recent years. Some CRS-supported coffee farmers in this part of Nicaragua earned as little as 19 cents per pound after the last harvest-less than half what it cost them to produce their coffee. With support from CRS, the Cooperativa Las Nubes hopes to export its coffee to the Fair Trade market in the near future, where the guaranteed minimum price for organic coffee is $1.41 per pound-enough to cover the costs of coffee production, and to provide a dignified livelihood for Sebastiana, Sabas and their families.“
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„This two-page document shows how Fair Trade puts more of your coffee dollars directly into the hands of small-scale farmers than the conventional system, in which middlemen, processors and coffee companies can earn more than the men and women who actually grow the coffee.“
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„Equal Exchange West Bridgewater, MA Fair Trade Coffee Company Garwood, NJ“
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PR Distribution through United Natural Foods
„CANTON, MA - January 21st, 2004 - Equal Exchange, the nation's #1 brand of Fair Trade coffee, announced today their new partnership with Catholic Relief Services, called the CRS Coffee Project, an ambitious plan by the two organizations to boost consumption of Fair Trade coffee through education and direct marketing of the coffee to the 65 million Catholics in the United States.“
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An Introduction to the World of Tea (INeedCoffee.com)
„If all you know about tea is Lipton’s and Celestial Seasonings, then you don’t know what you’re missing. There’s a fascinating variety of finely made teas from around the world available now that are fun to try, and they make the supermarket tea bags seem dull and two dimensional by comparison. Most mass-produced, commercial tea is made from cheap grades of tea, such as dust and tiny pieces, so that it will steep quickly, and produce a pleasant, if somewhat generic brew that will accept milk, sugar, or lemon. Fine quality teas consist of whole or larger parts of leaves, have greater depth and complexity of flavor, and a smoother quality.“
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Tea & Coffee 02/03 - Espressing Their Opinions: Choosing an Espresso Machine
„But Babcock quickly adds, “If you’re overusing those machines, if you are making so many, so fast, then your temperature drops in the heads and you don’t have the proper temperature and extraction rates, the quality of your espresso goes down significantly, say if it drops under 195. So you want a machine that will hold that temperature. The other things that I look for are, of course, quality of the espresso coming out.“
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