{"id":3421,"date":"2006-10-30T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/30\/3421"},"modified":"2006-10-30T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T15:44:43","slug":"tell-starbucks-to-give-ethiopian-farmers-their-fair-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/tell-starbucks-to-give-ethiopian-farmers-their-fair-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Starbucks to give Ethiopian farmers their fair share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/starbucks-coffee.jpg\" alt=\"Starbucks - raking in the billions.\" class=\"pic_100px\"\/>For every cup of coffee sold by coffee chain stores, poor farmers in coffee-growing countries like Ethiopia only earn about 3 cents. Yet the coffee industry makes billions of dollars \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <strong>Starbucks alone has already made more than $5.8 billion in net revenue this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To give its 15 million farmers a better cut of the profit, the Ethiopian government has asked Starbucks to sign a licensing agreement that recognises Ethiopia&#8217;s legal trademark ownership over its most famous coffee names &#8211; Sidamo, Harar and Yirgacheffe. Ethiopia wants to determine an export price on their coffees that makes sure farmers see a fairer share of the profits. Despite its much-publicised &#8220;commitments&#8221; to farming communities, Starbucks has not taken Ethiopia&#8217;s request seriously and has used the US legal system to block it.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/pm\/content\/2006\/s1774565.htm\" rel=\"external\">ABC News article<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Why is it important?<\/h4>\n<p>By owning the rights to its fine coffee names, Ethiopia can help its farmers negotiate a better price, <strong>potentially increasing income for the country&#8217;s coffee industry by an estimated $88 million a year<\/strong>. This would help lift millions of hard-working farmers and their families out of poverty, helping them to send their children to school and access healthcare.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/act.oxfamamerica.org\/campaign\/starbucks_mtf\" rel=\"external\">Ask Starbucks to sign this agreement with Ethiopia by sending a message to CEO Jim Donald.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For every cup of coffee sold by coffee chain stores, poor farmers in coffee-growing countries like Ethiopia only earn about 3 cents. Yet the coffee industry makes billions of dollars \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Starbucks alone has already made more than $5.8 billion in net revenue this year. To give its 15 million farmers a better cut of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}