Alternative Trade Networks for Coffee

John Thackara of Worldchanging writes about Alternative Trade Networks and the Coffee System. In the article, he reviews the book Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America (Food, Health, and the Environment). It’s an interesting read with a few unknown facts (to me) :
- it can take as many as eight transactions to bring the coffee to market
- coffee farmers receive less than two percent of the price of a cup of coffee sold in a coffee bar
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