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From Hooked - Students for Trade Justice

[edit] Tell Starbucks 'Fair is Fair'

For every cup of coffee sold by coffee chains such as Starbucks, poor farmers in coffee-growing countries like Ethiopia earn around three cents. Yet the coffee industry makes billions of dollars. Starbucks alone has already made more than US $5.8 billion in net revenue this year.

To give its 15 million farmers a better cut of the profit, the Ethiopian government has asked Starbucks to sign an agreement that recognises Ethiopia's legal ownership of its fine coffee names. Despite its much-publicised commitments to farming communities, Starbucks has not taken the Ethiopian request seriously.

Tell Starbucks 'Fair is Fair'