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„After a February trip to coffee farms in Tanzania and Ethiopia, Kimberly Easson, TransFair’s Director of Strategic Relationships, described the sense of hope she felt while meeting with Fair Trade farmers. She was in Africa to attend the East Africa Fine Coffee Association (EAFCA) conference where she participated in a panel on coffee certification.“
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„Fair trade is empowering organic coffee farmers all over the world and helping them attain job security, according to Kimberly Easson, director of strategic relationships at TransFair USA.“
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„But at the end of 2003, coffee exporters in Ethiopia were getting just 37 cents per pound, and exporters in Tanzania a mere 27 cents! The farmers who grew the coffee, meanwhile, were only getting a fraction of those amounts. That means that when we pay $1.50 for a cup of conventionally traded coffee from Ethiopia or Tanzania the farmer who grew it gets less than 1¢!“
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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News
„Since Fair Trade began, more than a million coffee growers and other farmers in Tanzania, Ecuador, Nicaragua and elsewhere have joined cooperatives that sell their products through Fair Trade channels instead of directly to a commercial producer. Fair Trade's guarantees and benefits would otherwise be available only to farmers willing to sell their land to a large commercial grower like Chiquita“
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Transfair USA | Press Releases
„Representing the cooperative in Ethiopia will be Tadesse Meskela, general manager of Oromia, which is comprised of 23,691 members. Premiums from sales of Fair Trade Certified coffees have enabled the co-op to provide educational workshops on coffee production and technical assistance, equipment purchases and methods of cultivating food crops such as citrus and bananas among coffee bushes.“
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Global Exchange : Stunted coffee market pushes Ethiopians into drug trade
„But today there's too much coffee in the world, and prices are at 30-year lows. While premium Ethiopian coffees fetch up to $12 a pound in the United States, Ethiopia's farmers get only 15 cents for it.“
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