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„And students-society's moral fighters-may turn out to play an important role in eventually ending the coffee crisis. Not only do students support fair-trade coffee by drinking it, they are also forming organizations and educating themselves on the positive social effects of fair trade. And we hope this dedication doesn't stop once students stop being students. "It has an important message with it," Peyser says.“
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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News
„Yet a general comparison of the prices in a broad food category, say, all chocolate bars, shows that the fair-trade items generally cost 7 to 12 percent more, according to Tradecraft, a pioneering British fair-trade importer. This extra cost involves a somewhat unfair comparison between a gourmet fair-trade food item and a nongourmet conventional food item, but it suggests that fair-trade items have yet to match in price what the majority of consumers are paying.“
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„Although fair-trade coffee constitutes only 1 percent of the coffee market nationwide, its share of the specialty coffee market, where it is being directed, is 3 percent and climbing.“
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„Wild Oats Markets has seen that traction in action. Wild Oats exclusively carries fair-trade coffee in its bulk coffee section and has seen bulk coffee sales increase 30 percent since last year. Chief Executive Perry Odak told a conference in June that this increase came despite the Boulder, Colo.-based retailer raising coffee prices by nearly $3 a pound. "The customers will vote with their dollars, and they voted to buy more coffee," Odak said.“
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„Under the fair-trade program, farmers receive a guaranteed minimum price of $1.26 per pound for conventionally grown coffee and $1.41 for organically grown coffee. The price of conventionally grown coffee on the international market is about 42 cents per pound while organic coffee prices fluctuate between 65 cents and 85 cents per pound, the groups said.“
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