UCC Coffee Project (#)
„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.“
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Coffee: A Bitter Cup? - Fair Trade Coffee Project - Lutheran World Relief
„Coffee is big business, but for the majority of coffee farmers the benefits are small. The chain of events from the coffee farm to your cup is long and expensive, often leaving the farmer with very little to live on. Most coffee farmers live in isolated communities, in some of the poorest countries in the world. They usually sell their coffee to middlemen, known to the farmers as "coyotes."“
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„Little did he know he would be constructing homes for coffee farmers. "We were digging a foundation for a farmer on the side of a hill when we accidentally covered a coffee plant with fill dirt," Harris recalls. "The farmer got so upset that when we covered the second plant, he stopped the work, and for an hour and a half, he explained how important these coffee plants were. He allowed us to continue working once we promised that we would not cover any more of his coffee plants." Struck by how much the plants meant to the farmer, it dawned on Harris that the trip, ostensibly about building houses, was turning out to be about coffee.“
http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/about/news/ 402freshcup.html
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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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The Church of the brethren Coffee Project
„“When you drink a fairly traded cup of coffee from Equal Exchange you are supporting one or two or three small farmers on the other side of the world so that they can have a better life and education for their children.”“
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International Coffee Organization
„8. Although consumers could be expected to benefit from low prices this is not the case in coffee. Firstly, the amount accruing to the farmer from the retail sales price of a cup of coffee in a coffee shop is probably less than 2%. Secondly, excessively low prices lead to lower quality. An example is the farmer who normally pays harvesters to go through the coffee trees three times during a harvesting season to pick the ripe cherries and now sends them through once only, picking unripe and overripe beans with the ripe ones.“
http://www.ico.org/crisis/main.htm
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