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„Ten years ago, as one of Equal Exchange's first customers, Harvest Food Co-op helped to pave the way for Equal Exchange to enter into the natural foods/co-op marketplace while setting an example for other co-ops to carry fairly traded coffee. According to Lydia, the relationship with Equal Exchange is one of the most important they have with any of their suppliers.“
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„We’ve been informed family members of two farmers were killed when their homes collapsed. The co-op’s mill for processing coffee was also damaged. Fortunately the largest warehouse is intact, and is currently being used to shelter the homeless. The roads in to the communities are in ruins, making it impossible at this time to get coffee out of the area or get help in.“
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„Regarding that supply, both the planting and harvesting schedules chosen by coffee farmers will affect the availability of green beans in the marketplace. A tree planted by a farmer today will not yield a crop for another three to five years, so coffee growers have to be both agronomist and seer. It stands to reason that coffee growers want to plant only to the extent that their harvest will be a profitable one, so tracking the trends in coffee consumption as well as the global coffee yields become key considerations when deciding how much to plant.“
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„And in addition to direct fair trade coffee purchases, the co-op has already added a coffee equipment-purchasing component. The co-op intends to cautiously grow its membership and gradually expand its buying area from Central America and Indonesia to Africa. And ultimately, the co-op hopes to do its own development work with coffee growers.“
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„That is the stance of the Bainbridge-Ometepe Sister Island Association, which pays $1.61 a pound for the coffee grown by Castillo's co-op on Ometepe Island and sells it to Seattle-area retailers. All the coffee's profits pay for community-improvement projects on the Nicaraguan island.“
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„Cipolla says that when he began roasting, the norm in Seattle was espresso drinks that were "either bitter and burned or smoky and extremely strong. We saw an opportunity in the marketplace to bring espresso closer to its historical culinary flavors." But the scene was changing quickly as cafes and roasteries continued to multiply in the Northwest. By the mid-'90s, Starbucks was adding hundreds of stores a year to its empire. With its emphasis on milk-based espresso drinks, the company single-handedly put the word "latte" into the popular lexicon and made the consumption of espresso-based drinks a daily habit for millions of Americans.“
http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/cafestage/ 06-02-2003
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