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„ Our group left CATIE with a strong desire to find ways to share some of the sustainable agriculture "best practices" we saw with the many farmers we trade with who do not have the time or funds to visit the institute. Some of us are hoping to help sponsor a CATIE mini-seminar for producers at a future Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) conference, and all of us now feel much better equipped to share information with farmers as we travel to origin.“
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„It is a universal means of evaluating coffee, universal because, everyone from the farmers to the baristi tastes coffee by means of cupping. Most roasters and green coffee buyers use this more or less as a tool to control consistency in their product, a somewhat dry definition. I have yet to meet a roaster or coffee buyer who describes it in such bland terms. The rapid slurp from a cupping spoon, allowing the aromatics of the coffee to spread over your tongue by means of oxygen and moisture, gives you a picture of how this coffee has developed.“
http://www.freshcup.com/2005_jan/9_bars.htm
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„But for the majority of small coffee farmers, who live in rural communities in some of the poorest countries in the world, the benefits are small. The chain of events that leads from the farm to your cup is long and expensive: Processors, creditors, exporters, brokers, and a cast of middlemen — known to Latin American farmers as “coyotes” — can all come between you and the farmers before you get to sip your morning brew. With world coffee prices constantly changing and “coyotes’ paying the lowest price possible, coffee farmers never know how much they’ll get for their crops. Isolated from markets, they struggle to make a simple living.“
http://www.equalexchange.com/intro/ eeintro2.html
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Coffee: A Bitter Cup? - Fair Trade Coffee Project - Lutheran World Relief
„The chain of events from the coffee farm to your cup is long and expensive, often leaving the farmer with very little to live on. Most coffee farmers live in isolated communities, in some of the poorest countries in the world. They usually sell their coffee to middlemen, known to the farmers as "coyotes."“
http://www.lwr.org/coffee/cup.asp
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„Little did he know he would be constructing homes for coffee farmers. "We were digging a foundation for a farmer on the side of a hill when we accidentally covered a coffee plant with fill dirt," Harris recalls. "The farmer got so upset that when we covered the second plant, he stopped the work, and for an hour and a half, he explained how important these coffee plants were. He allowed us to continue working once we promised that we would not cover any more of his coffee plants." Struck by how much the plants meant to the farmer, it dawned on Harris that the trip, ostensibly about building houses, was turning out to be about coffee.“
http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/about/news/ 402freshcup.html
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„But for the majority of small coffee farmers, the benefits are small. The chain of events that leads from the coffee farm to your cup is long and expensive, often leaving the farmer with very little to live on.“
http://www.equalexchange.com/interfaith/ucc.htm
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