Coffee growers around the world have suffered as prices have
fallen since 1997. "Suffered" means having to take
their children out of school, not having access to basic healthcare,
and not having money for clothing.
Find out more about the coffee
crisis by reading Mugged:
Poverty in your coffee cup.
Oxfam
Oxfam GB is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation
dedicated to finding lasting solutions to poverty and suffering
around the world. The changes that Oxfam campaigns for will
help coffee growers overcome poverty.
Oxfam pioneered Fairtrade in the sixties
and seventies and sells Fairtrade products through its shops.
www.oxfam.org.uk
The Fairtrade Foundation
Fairtrade coffee is the fastest-growing sector of the UK coffee
market. In 2004, consumers purchased 2572 tonnes of Fairtrade
coffee from shops and supermarkets - an increase of 23 per
cent from 2003. Coffee shops sold 766 tonnes of Fairtrade
coffee during the same period - an annual increase of 50 per
cent.
Fairtrade contracts guarantee a minimum
price to the coffee co-op. This is always above the commodity
market price.
www.fairtrade.org.uk
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