Fairtrade | Publications | Fair Comment | Summer 2003 (#)

  „For Blanca Rosa Molina, now 47, life began the hard way as it did for many other generations in Nicaragua. Her parents were workers on a large coffee plantation in Matagalpa and, at the age of six, Blanca joined them at work in the fields. Aged 11, she left home to work as a maid in Managua, the capital city.“

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Fairtrade | Publications | Fair Comment | Spring 2002

  „Visiting Nicaragua this summer, Hannah Durrant of the Fairtrade Foundation met Bertha Salinas, a coffee plantation worker, camping with 180 other unemployed workers by the roadside outside the town of Matagalpa in northern Nicaragua. Thrown off the plantations by the owners, who could no longer afford to pay them, they were living in squalid conditions without sufficient food. Two children had died in their camp the week before.“

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  „For five generations, Fara-Café has been growing exceptional coffee beans in the mountainous regions of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Whether you prefer green beans or roasted, by the pound or the palette, for your home or your business, we’ll ship them to you anywhere in the world.“

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Fairtrade | News | Press Release

  „Percol Colombia, Guatemala Organic, Latin American Organic and Nicaragua ground coffees are available in most supermarkets. Their organic Americano and organic Espresso blends are stocked in Waitrose and Budgens.“

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Fairtrade | News | Press Release

  „Successive years of low prices on the world coffee market mean that growers and their families in countries like Nicaragua and Tanzania are not able to cover their costs of production and afford the basic necessities of life. It is clearly imperative that the major coffee companies engage with Fairtrade to address the increasing poverty and hardship that is the direct result of low world coffee prices, as proposed by organisations like Oxfam (Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup, 2002).“

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  „"For example in Nicaragua former coffee workers now beg by the road, thousands took part in a March of the Hungry in July and 14 of them died. This poverty is due to the dramatic fall in world coffee prices, for example the world price for arabica coffee has fallen dramatically to $0.65 cents per pound, in comparison with the Fairtrade price of $1.26. The Co-op's decision will help some coffee co-operatives build a brighter future, it offers a real choice to Britain's shoppers and sends a timely wake-up call to the worldwide coffee industry." "“

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