Global Exchange : There's a new cause brewing on campuses (#)
„But proponents of fair trade -- a system that pays farmers at least $1.26 per pound, or $1.41 for organic coffee -- say that still falls short of the 80 cents a pound it costs small-scale farmers to produce gourmet beans. According to Oxfam, a "coffee crisis" affects 25 million coffee-growing families in more than 50 countries, from Mexico to Ethiopia. In Latin America, where non-fair-trade farmers end up with an average of 20 cents per pound after paying brokers known as "coyotes," Oxfam says the crisis compels growers to abandon their farms and contributes to poverty and malnutrition in coffee-growing communities.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 1736.html - Cached
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„But with support since 1994 from the US National Cooperative Business Association, some 19,000 small-scale coffee farmers have organized in 16 organic cooperatives and 493 producer groups to create a national cooperative structure known as the Cooperativa Café Timor. Since the 1999 referendum, the NCBA project has worked quickly and under difficult conditions, in order to help East Timor farmers export their crop.“
http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/producers/cafetimor/
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The crisis brewing in the coffee world. - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada
„In fact, coffee is the second most important raw material in commercial volume, following oil. Coffee production employs 25 million people working in a small-scale family economy, where the entire farming production process is virtually done by hand, demanding a delicacy and expertise passed down by ancestral tradition. But today, behind every cup there is a story of poverty and death for coffee farmers in countries held hostage by blind market forces. On average, coffee is priced at US$1.10 per kilogram, even though production cost is more than $1.76 per kilogram.“
http://www.coffeecrew.com/articles/.../ the-crisis-brewing-in-the-coffee-world..html
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„For 16 years Coffee Kids has been helping small-scale coffee farmers address their own communities' problems with health-care projects, education projects and micro enterprise projects that help coffee farmers establish alternative incomes so they are no longer totally dependent upon coffee as a sole source of income.“
http://www.coffeekids.org/about/uk.htm
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„Cooperative Coffees is a unique organization - a green coffee importing cooperative committed to supporting and partnering with small-scale coffee farmers and their exporting cooperatives. By importing directly from our partner-farmers, Cooperative Coffees seeks to creatively foster a more equitable and sustainable system of coffee trade that directly benefits these farmers, their families and their communities.“
http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/resources/brochures/ page2.html
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