Buy Fair Trade Coffee Beans at Java Times Caffe

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Buy Fair Trade Coffee Beans at Java Times Caffe

• Whenever you buy any products bearing the
  Fairtrade Mark, you are supporting farmers and
  workers and helping them to improve their lives
  and their communities. The Fairtrade Mark means
  that the ingredients in the products have been
  produced by small-scale farmer organisations or
  plantations that have met the Fairtrade social,
  economic and environmental standards. These
  standards include the protection of workers'
  rights and the environment, payment of the
  Fairtrade Minimum Price to the producer and
  importantly an additional Fairtrade Premium to
  invest in business or community projects.

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Fairtrade is designed to benefit small-scale
farmers and workers, who are amongst the most
marginalised groups globally, through trade
rather than aid. This in turn enables them to
maintain their own livelihoods and
communities. Coffee used to be well, just plain
coffee. You could order it with cream and/or
sugar and that was pretty much the extent of the
considerations. Now, the variation of terms
bandied about is endless organic coffee, gourmet
coffee roasters who use only gourmet coffee
beans, dark roast coffee, French roast and
Arabica beans. There is also the place of origin
Ethiopia, Kona, Mocha, Sumatra and Uganda. Given
the current rate of global warming, Tundra can't
be far behind.
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Then, there is Fair Trade coffee. Fair Trade
certification originated in the Netherlands in
1988 after a significant drop in wholesale coffee
prices around the world. During that period,
there was an excess supply of coffee beans over
demand. The price on world markets had plummeted
so low that coffee farmers around the world were
unable to earn anything close to a livable wage.
By 1997, several other labeling certifications
had evolved Fair Trade Foundation, TransFair USA
and Rattvisemarkt. They merged to become The Fair
Trade Labeling Organization or FLO, which has
been extended to include many types of
agricultural products.