Tea & Coffee 11/01 - The Fair Trade Ideal: The Ultimate Answer For Sustainability? (#)
„In this second installment of his series on the current coffee crisis, Donald Schoenholt writes on fair trade programs, their impact on coffee producers, and their relationship with the specialty coffee industry from the perspective of a specialty coffee retailer.“
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Tea & Coffee 06/01 - What’s Brewing In Specialty Retail?
„Allegro’s commitment to sustainability goes so far that they go a step further than most, taking sustainable practices at face value. They really try to be aware of the whole sustainability picture - a complex subject - rather than making money off of consumers’ reactions to simplified buzz words such as “shade-grown,” “bird-friendly,” or “fair trade.” For instance, Knox explains that not all shade-grown coffee is beneficial to the environment. Shade trees, he says, are not native to many coffee-growing areas - and some farmers that only grow coffee with little shade in one part of the farm, leave large portions of the rest of the land as untouched forest. Often, these farms actually have more birds than there are on more densely-shaded farms.“
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Tea & Coffee 11/01 - The Fair Trade Ideal: The Ultimate Answer For Sustainability? (Cont)
„Through all of this hammering of specialty coffee there was no outcry by Fair Trade coffee advocates and organizations about the 92% of green coffee coming into the U.S. that is not specialty coffee. The great global coffee businesses of Kraft, Proctor & Gamble, Nestle and Sara Lee that represent the bulk of all coffees bought and sold in the U.S. were not sullied by the vitriol, nor threatened with bad publicity. They went about their business buying in about 16.5 million bags of green coffee in the last year from their regular commercial sources at historically low prices.“
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„As defined by the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), "sustainability is growth which satisfies the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy their own needs." In other words, the big picture is key where sustainable coffee growing is concerned. The SCAA believes the coffee industry should take the lead in sustainable agriculture worldwide, involving everyone from producers to consumers.“
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