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These small farmers are currently trapped in an economic crisis. Coffee prices are at an all-time low, less than 40 cents per pound. (However, prices for consumers have in fact increased, and major coffee companies such as Nestle, Starbucks and Proctor and Gamble are making enormous profits.) Current economic conditions hold potential for even greater hardships for impoverished coffee farmers, many of whom can barely afford to educate their children or provide health care and food for their families. Extreme poverty in coffee producing countries such as Nicaragua has led to massive urban migrations, and the dependence of many...
There is an opportunity for Harvard students to help the plight of these farmers by buying fairly traded coffee. Fair trade coffee is purchased directly from small, democratically run farmers’ cooperatives. Farmers are guaranteed a minimum price of $1.26 per pound, and if market prices rise above the fair trade premium, farmers receive 10 cents more than the market price. Fair trade coffee is a feasible alternative because it is bought directly from cooperatives, instead of through exploitative middlemen, called coyotes, who are pervasive in the coffee trade...
...captain Kevin El-Hayek ended his career by finishing third in the 133-pound class, while juniors Reggie Lee (184 lbs.) and Robbie Griffin (157 lbs.) finished fourth and fifth, respectively...
...foot-three, 180-pound Farrell works his body as hard as his mind as a rower for the varsity heavyweight crew team. He is also a semi-accomplished thespian. For the past two years, Farrell has acted in the Sunken Garden Children’s Theater, a student-written and student-run production geared toward children. Hee also writes for the Harvard Current, works on the Junior Parents’ Weekend Committee and is involved with both the Institute of Politics and the community service group BASIC. And he is co-chair of the Mather House Council...
...pound sophomore battle, Brown’s Adam Santee got the best of P.J. Jones, 6-2. Lee lost a hard-fought match to senior Karl Rittger, 2-0, at 184 lbs. Scoreless through most of the first and second periods, Rittger only managed a pair of escapes to seal the narrow...