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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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BBC NEWS | Business | Why cheap beans don't make cheap coffee

  „World coffee prices are low because there is an oversupply of coffee, the world's second most valuable commodity after oil. Many coffee growers across the developing world have produced too much coffee which they have simultaneously released into the world market. The global supply is estimated to be about 8% above demand, according to Oxfam. This has depressed world prices.“

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Coffee Discussion about Espresso, Coffee Beans and Coffee Machines - Coffee Forum

  „Forum and News for people in the coffee industry and looking to get into it such as coffee shop owners, coffee bean growers, sales, conventions, shops, equipment, roasters, and everything coffee industry related.“

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Global Exchange : cctimes082699.html

  „The group argues that many small farmers are impoverished by selling their coffee below market price, and large bean growers are more likely to clear cut rain forests to grow coffee beans. The group then sells raw coffee beans to middlemen called roasters in the United States who toast the beans brown. The roasters sell the beans to retail shops.“

http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee/ cctimes082699.html - Cached

Global Exchange : Battle over beans brews in Berkeley

  „Though fair trade isn't a new approach to boost the incomes of poor growers and their workers and, in turn, create better lives for their dependents and communities, it's been thrust into the international spotlight thanks to plummeting coffee prices. Exacerbated by a glut of beans flooding the global market, the average price per pound of coffee was less than 48 cents in September, according to the International Coffee Organization. That's about one-third the price in 1997.“

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 419.html - Cached

Fairtrade | Suppliers | Growers | Comfort, Fairtrade cocoa farmer

  „As well as farming cocoa beans, Comfort also teaches at her local primary school. Living in the small town of Mim in the Ashanti region of Ghana, she is a member of Kuapa Kokoo Union cocoa farmers co-operative. The co-operative was set up in 1993 and now has 35,000 members. Kuapa own a third of the The Day Chocolate Company who manufacture Fairtrade Divine and Dubble chocolate bars in the UK market.“

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/ suppliers_growers_cocoa_comfort.htm - Cached

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