Coffee & Community Facts
Coffee is the second-most traded commodity in the world economy, after oil.
One coffee tree yields slightly less than 1 pound of coffee per year.
For every pound of gourmet coffee sold, small-coffee farmers receive between 12¢ and 25¢.
In Guatemala, 70 children out of every 1,000 die before age 5; 51 of those children will not live to reach their first birthdays.
There is only 1 doctor for every 85,000 people in the Western Highlands of Guatemala.
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