Presbyterian Coffee Project (#)

  „For the majority of small coffee farmers, the benefits are small. World prices are in constant flux, and coffee industry middlemen (known to Latin American farmers as “coyotes”) offer farmers the lowest price possible. Farmers never know how much they’ll get for their crops.“

http://www.pcusa.org/pcusa/wmd/hunger/coffee/ - Cached

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BBC Languages - Spanish Steps

  „Connoisseurs of coffee debate endlessly about which country produces the best beans. Colombian coffee has a well-deserved reputation, rivalled only by that of another Latin American producer Costa Rica, whose beans are praised for el aroma, fragrance, el sabor, flavour, and finally el cuerpo, body.“

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/cultural_notes/ coffee.shtml - Cached

It's All About Coffee

  „The Cuban-rooted experience and the mainstream American one - a coffee competition seen almost nowhere else in the United States due to Miami's high concentration of Latin Americans and a coffee consuming tradition that predates the U.S. coffee craze by five decades.“

http://www.aboutcoffee.net/ 2002_12_01_bcearc.html - Cached

UCC Coffee Project

  „Most small coffee farmers live in isolated communities in some of the poorest countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. They usually sell their coffee through middlemen, known to Central American farmers as "coyotes." With world prices in constant flux and coyotes offering the lowest price possible, farmers never know how much they'll get for their crops.“

http://www.equalexchange.com/interfaith/ucc.htm - Cached

PHNFLASH 50- Essential Drugs, CONTRACEPTIVE, AGRICULTURE

  „Five African, two Asian and two Latin American countries were studied. Major conclusions reached by the study are, one, that syrups have the highest failure rate and tablets the lowest; two, that though a large proportion of failures are associated with local manufacture, the difference is not statistically significant; and finally, that there is currently a "reasonable" level of quality. But the study cautions that the drug samples were largely collected at the central level -- not at peripheral private sector distribution points -- and that the very small size of the survey means that these results should be treated as an "approximation." Also just published is an external evaluation (in French) of the UNICEF- and WHO- led Bamako Initiative in Rwanda. Both are available from the editor.“

http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/issues/ 00050.html - Cached

Transfair USA | Press Releases

  „Receive a fair price for their harvest - A minimum of $1.26 per pound ($1.41 for Organic Certified) Have access to credit and direct access to American markets, cutting out exploitative middlemen Benefit from cooperative programs supporting social and commercial development Currently, many coffee farmers receive as little as 20 cents per pound of coffee, well below their cost of production. The substantial difference between 20 cents and the Fair Trade price of $1.26 per pound often represents the road out of desperate poverty. It enables farmers to keep children in school, feed their families, improve healthcare and housing and invest in improving the quality of their coffee.“

http://www.transfairusa.org/content/about/ pr_020718.php - Cached

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