Tag: coffee
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Forget “Fair Trade”: A Supply Chain Overhaul To Boost Coffee Farmers’ Income 400%
Forbes: A Supply Chain Overhaul To Boost Coffee Farmers' Income 400% This is about a social enterprise on a mission to reinvent the coffee supply chain, giving farmers a bigger and more equitable piece of the action. Aimed at growers producing specialty-grade, premium, Fair Trade certified coffee, Vega hopes to enable farmers to roast and…
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“Buying ‘Fair trade’ coffee is not really helping the very poor”
Economist: Not so fair trade BUYING ‘Fairtrade’ coffee is not really helping the very poor, new research suggests. By comparing living standards in Fairtrade-certified producing areas in Ethiopia and Uganda with similar non-Fairtrade regions, four development economists from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London found that Fair Trade agricultural workers often…
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Economist Collen Haight on “Combating Global Poverty with a Cup of Coffee.”
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (a.k.a. Pope Benedict XVI) famously said, "A morality that believes itself able to dispense with the technical knowledge of economic laws is not morality but moralism." This certainly is true of Fair Trade coffee. Here is a clip by San Jose State University economist Colleen Haight on "Combating Global Poverty with a…