The cost of coffee
So feeling good about your fair trade coffee? Read this, maybe that’ll make you think.
Nevertheless, a typical Ethiopian coffee farmer still receives less than 1 per cent of what Canadian consumers pay for their lattes. (The farmers sell red cherries for 1 birr, or 11 cents per kg, it takes six kg of cherries to make one kg of green beans, 1.2 kg of green beans to make 1 kg of roasted beans, and each kilo of roasted beans makes 60 cups, sold for an average of $3 each, or $180.) And unlike the other main African producers (Ivory Coast, Uganda and Kenya), the vast majority of Ethiopian coffee is grown by small farmers.
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