Tricky

Posted on 27 November 2008 | 4 Comments

Starbucks says that all it’s coffee is going to be Fairtrade. Does that mean that so far, it’s unfair trade and that the farmers producing the coffee cannot make a living from it?

Just wondering…

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4 responses to “Tricky”

  1. umwalker | 27 November 2008 at 18:44 | Reply

    Well, it’s the Colombian farmers who make the coffee who actually consider buying Starbucks as the Süddeutsche reported some weeks ago… Globalization turned upside down… Uli

  2. lapuce | 27 November 2008 at 19:32 | Reply

    Now, that’s an interesting development. Do you happen to have a link?

  3. umwalker | 28 November 2008 at 18:41 | Reply

    Yeah, found one… I could have bet that the article is several weeks old. Well, it’s from the 24th…
    http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/179/448911/text/

  4. lapuce | 30 November 2008 at 18:44 | Reply

    Thanks for the article. It’s not even so unlikely to happen… Globalisation upside-down, why not?

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