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„Still, a long road lies ahead to rebuild East Timor, ranging from basic needs for education and training to the repair of physical infrastructure and the implementation of “farmer friendly” government policies. But for now, expanding East Timor’s access to the Fair Trade coffee market is considered the best alternative. As an example of how business and solidarity can work together, Cooperative Coffees member Just Coffee has partnered with the Madison-based East Timor Action Network (ETAN). Together they are offering delicious organically grown, Fair Trade coffee, while educating consumers about how they can help East Timor re-build its coffee economy - a core component in the survival of this new nation.“
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„By drinking fairly traded coffee from small farmer co-ops, you are helping these communities to help themselves as they rebuild.“
http://www.equalexchange.com/news_info/ notes1.html
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„Cafe Timor Organic Production Certificate“
http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/resources/contracts/ east_timor.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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Organic News Winter/Spring 1999
„Through fair trade, the chain of intermediaries is broken and the payment is more direct: small farmer / farmers' cooperative / coffee company / store / consumer. The guaranteed payment ($1.26/lb) is established to not only cover the cost of production, but to create a profit. Included in the purchase price is a premium that the co-op must use to directly benefit the community.“
http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/about/news/ spr99organicnews.html
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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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