Word: poundã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...said that 600,000 Central American workers have been laid off recently and that many farmers are only being apid 24 cents per pound??a sum that in many cases does not cover their costs of production...
...focus of the afternoon session was to promote ‘Fair Trade’ agreements—which pay farmers the above market rate of $1.26 per pound??as a solution to the plight of the farmers...
...were like boxing’s lighter weight divisions, then Harvard would certainly have weighed in a class above the rest of the Ivy League and the likes of Williams and Amherst. Still, the Crimson would have been a flyweight, as it never quite could pack on that last pound??or capture that last point—and always found itself just below the Bantams...
Some farmers have decided to eliminate these middlemen by forming cooperatives and selling directly to American distributors like “Equal Exchange.” Equal Exchange agrees to buy the fairly traded coffee at $1.26 per pound??$1.41 if it is organically grown. The market price paid by coyotes to farmers fluctuates around 40 cents per pound??the extra dollar goes into the often poverty stricken hands of Latin American, African and Asian coffee farmers...