THE LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
COFFEE PROJECT
Tanzania is as close as your coffee cup (<< slide presentation)
by Brenda Meier, Lutheran World Relief
Coffee farmers in crisis
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The world’s small-scale coffee farmers are in crisis. Coffee prices have dropped to historic lows. Farmers are trapped at the end of a lengthy and expensive chain of middlemen and little money is left for the people who actually grew the coffee crop.
Some farmers are pulling up their coffee crops, unable to survive as small players in an unstable global commodities market. Others are seeing their children leave the family farm and migrate to cities in search of work, but often only finding greater despair.
And as the coffee farmers struggle in a bleak economic situation, so does the church.
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