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Fair Trade Coffee Roaster Dealing Fairly With Farmers And Producers
By John Cranby
Some coffee roasters aren’t that involved in the actual acquisition
of the coffee beans. The larger the company, the more they depend
on suppliers just to bring the beans to them for a price they
approve of, and by whatever means.
However, this isn’t an option for a fair trade coffee roaster.
A company that plans to produce coffee based on fair trade needs
to review their options and become involved in the whole process,
including acquiring the beans from the original farmers.
It was the certified fair trade movement for coffee that inspired
all subsequent fair trade movements. This was because coffee is
second only to the oil industry in worldwide profits, and the
enormous potential for exploitation of the small farmer was in
full flower.
Fair Trade Retailers Buying Directly From Farmers Cooperatives
The buyers of beans squeezed the price they paid farmers down
until it barely gave those farmers enough to live on. But when
the fair trade retailers emerged, they bypassed these buyers and
went directly to farmers’ cooperatives to offer decent prices,
among other things.
The fair trade coffee roaster has certain responsibilities if
they truly want to deal fairly with farmers who grow the product.
They agree to pay a minimum fair price, which is usually much
higher than the middleman-buyers would have paid.
Teach Farmers To Grow Certified Organic Coffee
But the costs of those middlemen are eliminated because the fair
trade companies go as directly as possible to the farmers themselves,
usually through cooperatives.
Because they want the product to be certified organic coffee,
they are also expected to help farmers learn organic methods of
producing their crops.
Exploited Farmers And Producers Supplying Cheap Goods To Affluent Countries
What began with the fair trade coffee roaster, spread beyond
the coffee industry and into other products. After all, farmers
and producers in less affluent regions of the world are consistently
exploited by large corporations for the sake of providing cheap
goods to the more affluent countries.
So now you might find fair trade tea, bananas, fruit, sugar and
even cotton clothes. Corporations are unlikely to change their
ways and give producers fair prices if they can get away without
do, so it’s clear that the fair trade movement that began in the
coffee industry needs to spread until it encompasses many other
industries as well.
About The Author:
John Cranby is a popular author on coffee, chocolate, candy making, cakes and cooking including
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Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this site.
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You can do a quick workout that gets your heart and lungs pumping.
You can give yourself a shake to wake your body up. Or you can
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is to get your body going but there is nothing that does it quite
like a hot cup of coffee.
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