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The Trade Aid Coffee Harvest Roadshow
Last year while passing through the coffee cooperatives of Uganda in the back of a dusty Toyota Landcruiser, a plan was hatched to bring the back story of our coffee farmers to the coffee roasters of Aotearoa. This idea had been milling around in the mind of Justin Purser, Trade Aid's green coffee buyer of the past 6 years, but had never managed to develop legs.
Year's end....a few reflections
Its countdown to the end of 2009, and an apt time to reflect on a year of good things.
Coffee Tour Dispatch #3 - Ethiopia: Four years of remarkable change.
The last five days have seen us covering thousands of miles of Ethiopian road as we met with coffee farmers. From the lush shade-grown coffee region of Yiracheffe in the south, across to the mountainous areas of Harar in the mid-east – it has been our great privilege to sit down with dozens of coffee farmers and their cooperatives and hear how Fair Trade has been making some big changes in their lives.
Keeping Coffee Farmers in the Business
Juan Jimenez, one of the Guatemalan coffee farmers we buy our coffee from recently made this comment:
