Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade Coffee is the first commodity to be set up with an independent monitor. This monitor makes sure the Fair Trade agreement is adhered to, supporting the Coffee Farmers around the world. You can buy a fine selection of different fair trade coffee beans by clicking on the thumbnails to the right.
Fair partnershipThe Agreement, whether it is for coffee, chocolate, or any other number of items, creates a fair partnership between consumers and producers. You may have seen this label on other foods or hand made items at your local store. The Fair Trade movement is to ensure that small farmers and
Social ResponsibilityIn this case, it's the coffee farmers who get a boost from the agreement.
The Coffee Farmers are grouped into cooperatives and receive a wage sufficient for maintaining their families (they are guaranteed a minimum of $1.26/pound no matter what the market is paying); credit at a fair price; and long lasting relationships with the buyers. Investment in Self-SustainabilityFair Trade payments are invested in education, health care, economic independence and environmental care.
Why is Fair Trade Certified Coffee so important? More and more people around the world are caring about how their products are produced. Is the product good for the earth? Are the workers treated well and paid sufficiently for their time?
Over 100 companies have signed on to offer Fair Trade coffee. You may recognize some of their names: Starbucks, Peet’s, Equal Exchange, Tully’s, Green Mountain and Diedrich are but a few. Protecting the Environment
Small farmers take the best care of the land. Supporting Fair Trade means you are supporting the environment with your purchasing power. Fair Trade Coffee Farmers are too poor to clear cut the land or buy chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Their coffee is grown in small plots of mixed crops, and is grown organically.
Which is good for your own health, too :-) Why can’t the farmers do this by themselves? You’d think with the popularity of Gourmet Coffee, they’d be doing just fine. The truth is the price of coffee beans rises and falls dramatically on a daily basis. The growers get only a small piece of what the consumer pays at the stores.
They are kept in a cycle of poverty and debt, as they payment is often less than it costs to grow and harvest the coffee. Buying Fair Trade Coffee will help farmers and their families all around the world to break out of this cycle and live a better life. Try the world-renowned Mystic Monk Coffee, that is one of the best coffees worldwide, organically grown and fairly traded.
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