permaculture

[John Schinnerer <eco_living@yahoo.com>]

Aloha,

Also a key element of this and similar situations is the choice made by
the coffee (or whatever) growers (perhaps under some forms of duress,
perhaps not) to become almost entirely dependent on a wholesale export
cash crop  for their survival.  

Once in that situation, they really can't afford to quit - though of
course they can't afford to not quit either if prices stay below costs
for very long.

--- Marimike6@cs.com wrote:
> The article you passed along has provoked a few thoughts.
...

> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 
...
> 
> TEXT STARTS...
> There is a crisis destroying the livelihoods of 25 million coffee
> producers around the world. The price of coffee has fallen by almost
> 50 per cent in the past three years to a 30-year low. Long-term
> prospects are grim. Developing-country coffee farmers, mostly poor
> smallholders, now sell their coffee beans for much less than they
> cost to produce
...



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