International Coffee Organization (#)
„With the current collapse of world coffee prices, many exporting countries are suffering one of their worst economic crises for years. Coffee farmers are experiencing great hardship and the situation is poised to bring real problems of a social and political as well as economic nature. Consumers, on the other hand, are becoming increasingly aware of the downside of the current situation, not least because there is a risk that obtaining high quality coffee will become increasingly difficult in the future.“
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„This support couldn't have come at a more important time. With world coffee prices in a state of collapse, small coffee farmers around the world need fair trade more than ever.“
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„But for the majority of small coffee farmers, who live in rural communities in some of the poorest countries in the world, the benefits are small. The chain of events that leads from the farm to your cup is long and expensive: Processors, creditors, exporters, brokers, and a cast of middlemen — known to Latin American farmers as “coyotes” — can all come between you and the farmers before you get to sip your morning brew. With world coffee prices constantly changing and “coyotes’ paying the lowest price possible, coffee farmers never know how much they’ll get for their crops. Isolated from markets, they struggle to make a simple living.“
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„But for the majority of small coffee farmers, the benefits are small. The chain of events that leads from the coffee farm to your cup is long and expensive, often leaving the farmer with very little to live on.“
http://www.equalexchange.com/interfaith/ucc.htm
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Global Exchange : Coffee here, hardship there
„Three years in the making, the coffee crisis is having a devastating impact in countries like Nicaragua that built their economies on the commodity. Banks have crashed and, in a scene reminiscent of the American Midwest of the 1980s, thousands of farms have been seized in foreclosure.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 594.html
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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
„Fair Traded Coffee. Coffee that has been purchased from farmers (usually peasant farmers) at a "fair" price as defined by international agencies. The extra paid these farmers under fair trade arrangements is extremely modest, by the way. “
http://www.coffeereview.com/ glossary.cfm?alpha=f
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