"dispatch from coffee producing areas" follows coffee travelers to learn about coffee ecology in third World countries.

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[dispatch from coffee origin: X40,000 km in 9 countries, a traceability record of a human rights lawyer]

Author: Dean. Saikang

Publisher: Facebook

For developed countries, free trade advocated by the mainstream of economics (a free market that emphasizes economic analysis and efficiency, and governments and groups should not intervene in the market) can increase the overall gross output value in the theory of comparative interests.

However, this mechanism may lead to large organizations or enterprises monopolizing the market, which is more likely to occur in developing third World countries (such as Africa, Central and South America, etc.).

In order to prevent this from happening again and again in these developing countries, international non-profit organizations have formed the International Fair Trade labelling Organization to promote sustainable development in developing countries through the work of cooperative economy and fair trade certification. and raise the awareness of the rights of local vulnerable producers and workers.

Fairtrade

The pattern of the Fairtrade certification logo shows a cheering person (blue represents the sky, green represents the earth, and the black part is an one-handed figure), representing that producers have obtained a fair deal through Fairtrade. At the same time, it also represents that consumers know through Fairtrade goods that they have done a different good thing and helped these producers.

Most of the major coffee producers in the world are in the third world. And small coffee farmers in these countries are generally located in remote areas, living in poverty, unable to resist the price cuts of large disk merchants, once the market is monopolized, it will have a direct impact on their livelihoods, under the exploitation of layers of prices, raw bean prices almost do not meet, or even fall below production costs, making coffee farmers unable to improve their lives and production quality.

After joining Fairtrade, coffee farmers can avoid being exploited by intermediate traders and ensure that farmers get reasonable profits at the same time. Maybe you only pay about a dollar more, but it may be double or even more than twice the profit for them, which is of great help to improve their life and production quality.

Open the book and follow the coffee traveler Dean. After visiting 9 third World countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Sumatra, New Guinea), you will understand the coffee in your hands, which includes the rights and interests of the vulnerable, environmental pollution, politics and war. At the same time, we will also learn that the good taste in the cup is the result of the blood and tears of countless coffee farmers. After reading this book, you may have different feelings about coffee.

A CD-ROM is attached to the book, in which is Dean. The actual picture of Saikang in the coffee producing area. Through the film, we can have a clearer understanding of the coffee ecology of these third World countries, which we cannot imagine.

Dispatch from coffee origin: X40,000 km in 9 countries, a record of the origin of a human rights lawyer

It is also worth mentioning that the General Manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union mentioned in this book in Ethiopia: Tadesse, is also a documentary: the soul of Kafe justice. The documentary has won multi-national documentary awards and is worth seeing.

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