Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade promotes socially and environmentally sustainable
techniques and long-term relationships between producers, traders and
consumers
The world coffee industry is in crisis. A flood of cheap,
lower-quality coffee beans have pushed world market prices down to a
30-year low. Many now earn less for their crop than it cost them to
grow. Many coffee farmers around the world receive market payments
that are lower than the costs of production, forcing them into a cycle
of poverty and debtWithout urgent action, 25 million coffee growers'
face ruin.
The knock-on effects for national economies are just as catastrophic.
30 years ago, LEDCs received around 30% of the total value of
international coffee sales. Today, this has slumped to just 10%. As
export earnings from coffee shrink, national economies fail and the
first casualties are government education and health budgets.
chart of profit distribution
Coffee is a multi-million dollar industry, but the profits don't go to
the people who actually work so hard to grow the coffee beans, and
carry all the risks of failing crops or falling prices. Most of the
profits go to the shippers, roasters and retailers
chart: coffee producing areas Coffee grows only in the tropics. Mostly
small farmers grow it as a cash crop, a crop that they can sell to try
to make a living.
These farmers are poor, and they do not have any reserves of money to
support them when their crops fail or when coffee prices are low. The
small farmers have to sell their coffee beans when they are ready to
be harvested, and take whatever price the coffee buyers offer.
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...Ethiopia, Africa's largest coffee exporter and the
birthplace of coffee, has been hard hit by the recent price slump.
Coffee accounts for more than 60 percent of Ethiopia's exports,
generating vital income for its population of 65 million, more than
half of whom live on less than a dollar a day. Ethiopia's coffee
income has dropped by US$110 million, severely affecting the one
million families who depend on coffee for their income. While still
selling to consumers in Western countries for around US$10 per pound,
the world market price for coffee is less than US$0.50 per pound, of
which farmers only receive half. Just five years ago, the farmers
would receive at least five times that amount. As a result of this
massive slump in coffee price, the Ethiopian coffee farmers are facing
a sharp increase in poverty and hunger.
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