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What is Fair Trade?
Fair Trade involves both price and dealing with farmers. Fair Trade provides an internationally determined minimum floor price when the international commodity price (the “C” price) falls below $1.41 per pound for organics. Two major factors affected this price three years ago: cheap Vietnamese coffee flooding the market and financial speculators discovering a liberalized free market. The majority of the world’s farmers have been unable to recover the cost of production and have been driven off the land. But our roasters and importers have not gone below the $1.41 price. Also important is how Fair Trade works with small farmers to form democratic cooperatives that insure fair dealing, accountability and transparency in trade transactions. It also requires prefinancing of up to sixty percent of the value of the contract if the farmers ask for it. Fair Trade promotes helpful and positive interactions between for-profit businesses and other cultures and people.
Organic Standards
Organic food is produced by farmers who emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental quality. It is produced without using most conventional pesticides, fertilizers made with synthetic ingredients or sewage sludge, bioengineering or ionizing radiation. To be labeled organic, a Government-approved certifier inspects the farm where the food is grown to make sure the farmer is following all the rules necessary to meet USDA organic standards. Companies that handle or process organic food before it gets to you must be certified, too.
Coffee Information…
Swiss-Water Processed Decafs use beans that are “par-boiled” in a circulating tank that filters out the caffeine molecules but leaves in the flavor. Soft beans that decaf quickly are used so that most of the original character is retained.
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- Genevate
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- North Falmouth MA
- United States 02556
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- +1.5085645676
