Fair Trade: The coffee connection
Posted by TheShot on 14 May 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Robusta
Today’s The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) featured a rather lengthy and balanced story on Fair Trade coffee: The coffee connection.
Many small-market coffee growers face an enormous challenge to earn a living wage in an increasingly competitive world market. To tell this global story, the article presents the issues from the perspective of a coffee farmer in a Guatemalan village, introduces us to predatory middlemen known as “coyotes,” and interviews an American coffee consumer at Louisville’s own Heine Brothers’ Coffee.
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on 15 May 2006 at 2:59 am -05:00T 1.Coffee and Conservation said …
Fair Trade article
In a follow-up to yesterday’s World Fair Trade Day post, the Louisville Courier-Journal had a very good article on Fair Trade. It provided an understandable overview of the Fair Trade issue and the coffee crisis, highlighting Guatemalan farmers and one
on 08 Sep 2006 at 4:10 pm -05:00T 2.TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Farmers question value of ‘responsible’ coffees said …
[...] With coffee prices reaching new highs, suddenly the premiums that organic and Fair Trade coffee beans used to command are dwindling in comparison to the additional overhead required of growers. Or so suggests an article today from Reuters: Reuters AlertNet - FEATURE-Farmers question value of ‘responsible’ coffees. [...]