Global Exchange : Depressed coffee prices yield suffering in poor countries

Global Exchange : Depressed coffee prices yield suffering in poor countries ()

  „One of the principal factors in this widening breach between production and consumption has been a shift in what Northern consumers drink. In 1970, the average U.S. consumer drank 36 gallons of coffee and 23 gallons of carbonated soft drinks. By the year 2000, the situation was almost the reverse: The average U.S. consumer drank 17 gallons of coffee and 53 gallons of soft drinks. That's good news for Coke and Pepsi, bad news for the 25 million families around the world that grow coffee.“

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 672.html - Cached

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Organic News Winter/Spring 1999 Organic News Winter/Spring 1999

  „The Statistical Abstract of the United States reports that in 1995 (the most recent statistic available), U.S. consumers drank 5.4 billion gallons of coffee. Adding the estimated 8.5% average per year for coffee consumption growth brings the figure up to 6.3 billion gallons for 1997. The 1998 edition of the CRB Commodity Yearbook reports that, in 1997, the United States imported an estimated 1.3 million tons of beans—2.6 billion pounds, while world production for the 1996-97 season weighed in at over 6,790,000 tons.“

http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/about/news/ spr99organicnews.html - Cached

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  „Time for New Year's resolutions. Maybe you're thinking about cutting down on your coffee consumption? Now, I'm not typically one to tell people to drink less coffee, but if you are drinking an excessive amount of coffee per day, you are likely suffering from various symptoms from the excessive caffeine. If you are planning on reducing your coffee intake this year, be aware of the withdrawal symptoms you can expect.“

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  „The Head of Fair Trading will then investigate your complaint fully and report to the BBC Governors' Fair Trading Compliance Committee.“

http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/contactus/ fair_trading.shtml - Cached

Coffee Association of Canada Coffee Association of Canada

  „Approximately 9% of coffee drinkers' drink decaffeinated coffee on a regular basis.“

http://www.coffeeassoc.com/coffeeincanada.htm - Cached

- Coffee Science Information Centre - Coffee Science Information Centre

  „Coffee is enjoyed as a drink by millions of people world-wide and has been for at least a thousand years. It contains caffeine, which is a mild stimulant, and in many people coffee drinking enhances alertness, concentration and mental and physical performance. Although it contains a wide variety of substances, it is generally accepted that caffeine is responsible for many of coffee’s physiological effects.“

http://www.cosic.org/coffee-and-health/summary - Cached


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