The helpless reality of African coffee _ the price of African coffee beans _ the current situation of coffee trade in Africa

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I'm a big fan of coffee. Melbourne not only has the best coffee in the world, but also has a unique culture that expresses an enviable social experience. In the coffee shop, you can talk to baristas who remember what kind of coffee you like, the name of your child, or even know that you just broke up with your partner.

Because of the famous Melbourne coffee culture, after I arrived in West Africa, because of my insistence on high-quality coffee, I hope that the exotic atmosphere of Africa will give me more satisfaction than ordinary packaged Nestle coffee. However, although the world's finest coffee beans are produced in sub-Saharan Africa (we often drink them in Melbourne), I was unable to find a cup of locally produced coffee during my coffee search in West Africa.

During my first week in Togo, I begged my local driver to take me to an authentic coffee shop. After thinking hard about my request, he racked his brains and finally took me to the only place where he had bought coffee in Lome, the local gas station. In this dilapidated gas station, he recommended me the well-known canned Nestle Coffee.

Finally, my Belgian colleague took me to a French cafe in Togo to enjoy high-quality European-style coffee, but still could not enjoy a cup of coffee made in Africa. Although I tried my best to find it, all the local aliens kept telling me that it was impossible. The only way to find a cup of desirable coffee seems to be to buy your own coffee beans, stir-fry them at home and make them yourself.

In fact, Africans hardly drink coffee except in Ethiopia. As an economic crop with a long history, coffee beans produced by Africans are mainly for export. The African continent produces 12% of the world's coffee beans, and C ô te d'Ivoire, which borders Togo, is the third largest coffee producer in Africa. If we go into the countryside of West Africa, it is not difficult to find primitive coffee beans and natural fruits. But there are not enough machines and production technology here to stir-fry and process these coffee beans to make them ready for drinking. As a result, West Africans can only import processed coffee powder from abroad for use. To me, this is the greatest irony that a developing country faces in life.

What's more, the price of coffee beans in Africa is almost determined by the needs of global coffee lovers, rather than by local spending power. Due to the lack of local use of coffee in West Africa, because of the ultra-low prices of agricultural products, high production costs and the small local market, African coffee producers can only export raw coffee beans for a long time and are unable to obtain full value in the production of coffee powder. Only 20% of African coffee exports are produced or exported in the form of value-added products (80% of exports are sold in the original form).

Unfortunately, this phenomenon is not unique to coffee production in Africa, but also to other economic crops, including cotton, tea, cocoa, fruit, and rubber. The potential of Africa to export agricultural products is even less competitive because of the high import tariffs of developing countries and the policy of protecting local agriculture. Although the consumption of coffee locally in Africa is expected to increase, today's helpless commercial reality is that ── Africans still produce coffee beans they cannot enjoy, but consume coffee they cannot afford to produce.

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