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  „Unless growers are organized into local or federated cooperatives, they have absolutely no bargaining power and are forced to accept whatever price they’re offered. Harris said that, contrary to the image many Americans have about huge, well-organized coffee plantations run by Juan Valdez, most coffee in the world is sold by growers on the roadside to “coyotes”—local independent buyers who drive through coffee growing territories, often dividing routes to reduce competition.“

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  „Fair trade coffee comes from companies that buy their beans from grower-owned cooperatives and pay a guaranteed minimum price to the growers. That price, now $1.26 a pound, can be several times the world market price, which has ranged in recent months between 30 cents and 70 cents a pound.“

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Global Exchange : Coffee growers make case

  „That's the choice that members of coffee grower cooperatives want Americans to make. It's the difference, they say, in whether coffee growers continue to struggle financially until they're forced to abandon their farms, or they and their families gain some quality of life.“

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India coffee - News - Rise in coffee prices not enough, feel growers

  „The debt burden on the coffee industry currently amounts to over Rs 1,300 crore, including an interest component of Rs 300 crore. "There is a need for the Government to repay the interest burden to the Banks, thereby providing relief to the growers," said Mr Anil Bhandari, Chairman, United Planters Association of Southern India said, adding that such relief was not new. It already existed for other agricultural commodities besides a few select industries, including the public sector, he said.“

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Fairtrade | Suppliers | Growers | Alberto, Fairtrade sugar grower

  „He also points out the tremendous environmental benefits that result from selling to the organic Fairtrade market. 'It's something that has benefited the village of Jaris directly, and also the whole region.' In the past, farmers burnt petrol-soaked tyres in the furnaces that boil the cane syrup. They also cut down trees for fuel. Now there has been a lot of reforestation in the valley, and farmers have invested in improved organic furnaces that can burn the waste stalks of the cane.“

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