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„World2Market.com displays a collective assortment of unique and beautiful products from a variety of artisans around the world, for consumers to purchase on-line. It sources its products from social enterprise groups, micro-credit lending institutions and fair trade organizations that work directly with individual producers and who all share a common goal of using open market sales to promote sustainable economic development. It offers consumers an easy way to use their purchasing power to support a range of groups from disadvantaged women in North Carolina, to micro-credit loan recipients in Bangladesh, to small artisan groups in Nepal. By providing many artisans with access to world markets via the Internet, World 2 Market.com has helped many of these support their families.“
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This Guy Knows His Beans (INeedCoffee.com)
„He has read scores of scientific papers about coffee, and spent the last two years conducting his own experiments in the lab. He has studied "latté art," from some of America's foremost "baristas," learning from them how to pour heart and rosetta shapes into in the steamy foam of a cappuccino. He also worked for eight months as a barista in a Charlotte Starbucks, learning first-hand how coffee houses both educate consumers and compromise quality for commerce. Griffin refines his palate by studying a coffee "flavor wheel" poster that hangs on his wall, and by sniffing a set of 24 vials of coffee aromas he bought.“
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/00/01/griffin/ print.asp
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„In addition, More Top Secret Recipes includes an introduction with questions from readers, like, "What have you heard from the companies whose products you are copying," (nothing) and "After testing all of these recipes, aren't you a huge, fat pig?" (No.) The recipes make as much use as possible of premade food and mixes. For example, most candy bars are coated with melted chocolate chips, so you will not find that you have to crush cocoa beans, or perform any such low-level task.“
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0452272998/
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Amazon.com: Books: Commodifying Everything: Relationships of the Market
„"Commodification" refers most explicitly to the activities of turning things into commodities and of commercializing that which is not commercial in essence. The mass marketing of pets, the rise of the coffin industry, the conversion of preacher into salesmen, and the globalization of Taleggio cheese are some of the exciting but surprising topics in this volume that show how friendship, death, spirituality, and artisanship all have a price after being commodified.“
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/ 0415935911
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Fair Trade Coffee Klatching (INeedCoffee.com)
„The slowing down of sales growth of coffee overall in some European countries has caused a bottleneck in the system, and the world is looking to North America, particularly the US, for the next wave of expansion. In Canada, sales of certified Fair Trade coffee have grown tremendously since 1998, increasing from 22 metric tons sold to 150 metric tons for the year 2000.“
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/01/08/klatching/ ?page=2
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Amazon.com: Books: Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
„This study compares the political economoy of elites and coffee production in central america and goes a long way to explain the political history of the region.“
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=0674136489/
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