Coffee
"I'd like to tell people in your
place that the drink they are enjoying is the cause of all our problems.
We grow it with our sweat and sell it for nothing."
Lawrence Seguya, Uganda.
About 25 million people depend on growing coffee
but barely any of the money that we pay for a cup of coffee ever
reaches them.
 Coffee
giants like Nestlé, Sara Lee and Kraft are making huge profits
at the expense of coffee farmers - many of whom are left malnourished
and desperate.
After hitting a 30-year low in 2001, the price
of coffee has begun to recover. But the extra cents in no way signal
an end to the coffee crisis. Despite higher prices, small-scale
farmers still cannot earn a decent income. The coffee crisis has
become a disaster whose impacts will be felt for a very long time
to come.
Make Trade Fair' s long-term coffee campaign
Since 2001, Oxfam has campaigned to help coffee farmers around the world to get a better price for their coffee. As well as providing grants to coffee cooperatives in Central America and Africa, Oxfam promotes Fair Trade and provides support to organisations representing the interests and voices of small and family coffee farmers in poor countries around the world.
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