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Future, San Juan La Laguna, Transfair, Follow the Money Future is NowFair Trade is the future. Fair Trade can change the economic conditions in the world of coffee and we would hope, provide for a more stable environment in every sense of the word. F T of course is the abbreviation for Fair Trade. Fair Trade is the Process of paying higher prices for coffee grown by small farmers and small farm cooperatives. Top The higher prices are intended to provide money, of course, to people who need it, and, to ensure over time better production and more stable production. There are good reasons - Social - Economic - Self Interest - to pay the higher price for Fair Trade Coffee. Top Transfair USATransfair is the non profit that organizes the effort and makes sure that the money flows to the intended people. Retailers pay roasters more, roasters pay brokers and importers more, and the brokers and importers pay the farmers and cooperatives more. Top I have been to several cooperatives. San Juan La Laguna, Lake Atitlan jumps to mind.
These people live in homes that are swept clean daily, but the floor is hard packed dirt. Children are shoeless. But they smile. Take a look at the home page again. Hard work but happy children. Top Fair Trade will help them, and help us - retailers and roasters and brokers - deliver great coffee to the American Consumer. Top | Buy
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