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Coffee Dollar Breakdown

Here is where your money goes when you buy a bag of Just Coffee. Please note that the breakdown is by the pound. Some of you buy our coffee in 12oz. bags. To do that math, remember every factor is at .75 of the pound totals.

Most active discussions

Title	Comments
Fair Trade is Dead	10
Redefining Fair Trade: An opportunity not a crisis	9
TransFair USA and FLO Divorce	3
A JC Take on the FLO/TFUSA Split	3
On the Road in Honduras	2

Is Fair Trade Really Fair?

Posted by Matt Earley at about 1pm on Friday February 12, 2010

Share the World's Resources-- a website devoted to examining issues of sustainable economics-- has published a great article by Jill Richardson (featuring the JC) examining fair trade and the claims that it makes. Please check it out and discuss at length.

Also, to be totally clear, the article seems to indicate that Just Coffee Co-op uses TFUSA's certification system. We do not and have not since 2005 or so. We offer all of our contracts and financial information here on our site so that you do not need a third party to tell you if we do what we say we do.

A movement that cannot look at itself critically is doomed to failure. We can make all trade fairer by demanding transparency from all of the companies that we buy from and build economic democracy, swilling tasty coffee the whole way.

Read and enjoy!

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Is fair trade totally fair?

Submitted by Anonymous on February 17, 2010 - 9:27am.

Is fair trade totally fair? Maybe not. But, is that really the question that needs to be asked? Fair trade is MORE fair than the alternative, so it is a better option by default. There are many fair trade coffee sellers out there that care very much about the farmers, their customers and the planet. I don't think they would be participating in fair trade if they didn't think it was a positive option.

True That.

Submitted by Anonymous on November 30, 2010 - 2:33pm.

True That.

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Transparency Project

	Grower Cooperative	Price Paid Per Pound (P4)
	COPROCAEL, Honduras	$3.00
	La FEM, Nicaragua	$3.27
	CCDA, Guatemala	$3.22
	Yachil Xolobal Chulchan, Mexico	$3.03
	Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, Ethiopia	$3.80
	Ocamonte APCO, Colombia	$3.96
	POLO, Dominican Republic	$3.17
	Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, Ethiopia	$3.90
	Gumutindo, Uganda	$3.35
	Pangoa grower cooperative, Peru	$3.28
	CEPICAFE, Peru	$3.28
	Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, Ethiopia	$3.55
	AIPEP, Bolivia	$3.41
	Cerro de Cintepec, Mexico	$3.96

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Just Coffee's Mission

Just Coffee Co-op's Mission Statement:

Just Coffee Cooperative is a worker-owned coffee roaster dedicated to creating and expanding a model of trade based on transparency, equality, and human dignity. We strive to build long-term relationships with small-scale coffee growers to bring you a truly incredible cup of coffee.