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When asked by a graduate student of Ghanaian origin about his future plans for Ghana—Annan’s home country—after completing his U.N. term, Annan didn’t skip a beat: “I want to go back and be a farmer,” he quipped...
Where an individual farmer cannot sell his small crop to Nestle or Starbucks, a middleman can collect enough coffee to sell. Many of these coyotes, however, are manipulative—acting simultaneously as loan sharks for the small coffee growing families in a manner reminiscent of sharecroppers in antebellum America...
Buying from farmer cooperatives rather than coyotes does not artificially increase the cost of coffee to consumers. In retail stores, fair trade coffee is equally priced with other blends of similar quality. Adam Smith’s invisible hand may be reaching for a fairly traded cup of joe after...
...found that fairly traded coffee tasted better, or if you value that payments are going directly to farmer cooperatives rather than middlemen, make sure to fill out a comment card or tell your dining hall manager. If you didn’t get a chance to smell the sweet scent of redistribution or savor the smooth taste of high quality organic coffee, make sure to catch a cup next week...
Terry Ford was the tenth white farmer to be killed since the government-backed occupation of white-owned farms by so-called war veterans began two years ago. The day after Mugabe's inauguration speech, in which he raged against traitorous "snakes" and vowed to accelerate his "land reform" policy, 55-year-old Ford was dragged from his home at Norton, about 40 km west of the capital, Harare, by a gang of about 20 men, tied up against a tree and shot in the head. Later the police recovered a firearm and arrested six men who, they said, would...