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COFFEE WITH PLEASURE

Contents

Muchisimas gracias!
Foreword by Maude Barlow
Introduction

Chapter 1 Coffee Trade: The Inside Story; Background
Links in the coffee chain

Link 1: Small coffee producers; Isolation; Food insecurity; Coffee production; Chemical products
Link 2: The local trader
Link 3: The processor
Link 4: The exporter
Link 5: The broker
Links 6 and 7: The multinational coffee companies
Link 8: Retailers
Link 9: We, the consumers

Chapter 2 A Different Path for Coffee Growers

UCIRI: an example of a cooperative
The first steps
International support
A participatory democracy
UCIRI's projects
Moving towards organic agriculture
An agricultural school in the forest
A clinic in the mountains
Collective work
A dramatic advance

Chapter 3 Consumer Choices Shape the World

Origins of the fair-trade movement
A growing success story
Fair-trade organizations
Three fair trade labels
TransFair
Max Havelaar
Fair Trade Foundation
Fair-trade coffee in North America
Ten Thousand Villages
EqualExchange
Just Us!
Fair-trade coffee, please
Corporate codes of conduct
The Starbucks code of conduct: one step forward, two steps back'?
Confused? Choices in "sustainable" coffee
Organic
Bird-friendly, or shade-grown
Eco-friendly

Conclusion

Sources

Online
Moving into action
Where to get fair-trade coffee
Getting involved
Contact lists
In Canada
In the USA
Internationally

References

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