{"id":2903,"date":"2020-05-01T12:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T10:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fairfood.org\/sector\/koffie\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:40:47","slug":"poverty-free-coffee","status":"publish","type":"sector","link":"https:\/\/fairfood.org\/en\/commodities\/poverty-free-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Together, Dutch coffee drinkers consume about 30 million cups of coffee every day. You might think that the coffee industry is thriving. Yet, value does not find those who farm our coffee beans. Millions of smallholder coffee farmers live below the poverty line: they earn less than 1,60 euros per day.<\/p>\n\n

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Is there such a thing as poverty-free coffee?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The majority of millions of small-scale coffee farmers are living in severe poverty, below the threshold of \u20ac1.60 per day. The small-scale coffee farmers in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Peru experience the most severe financial strains. A common difficulty that these small-scale farmers face is being forced to borrow money under unfavorable conditions. This prevents farmers from having any type of savings. With the lack of savings, this causes a detrimental result of lack of access to medical care. These farmers have the inability to pay their medical bills or afford transportation to visit doctors and medical clinics outside of their villages. This pressing economic situation also results in child labor and the excessive use of pesticides. So far, no poverty-free coffee.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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% of your coffee is produced in Ethiopia, Uganda and Indonesia<\/h3>\n

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% of the Ethiopian population depend on coffee for their livelihood<\/h3>\n

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% of your coffee cup money goes back to coffee bean farmers<\/h3>\n

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million smallholder farmers depend on coffee for their livelihoods<\/h3>\n

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Trabocca<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2020 we kicked off a partnership with Trabocca. As a specialty-coffee brand, the Dutch coffee importer pays a premium price for higher-quality organic coffee; the farmer earns more. Regardless, the company wanted to learn whether their farmers earned enough to make a living income. To find out, Trabocca used our new traceability platform Trace. <\/p>\n\n\nFind the answer here<\/a><\/div>

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